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During this process, he becomes equal parts writer and musician, all shades of categorization afterward inevitably falling prey to crude underlying cultural assumptions and models, both about poetry and rap. Aesop acknowledges that “some people like my shit, some don’t,” but refuses to get sucked into marketing himself as an “intellectual rapper...
Kennedy prefers performance to writing (“more Alan’s territory”) or being in the studio, (“tense, even sterile sometimes.”) and would “jump at the opportunity” to be a full-time musician...
...will always remember meeting my first two friends at Harvard—one a talented lacrosse-playing musician, the other an intensely hardworking defender of all things Israeli. I will always remember my 21st birthday dinner, which I spent at my favorite restaurant, surrounded by many of my favorite people. I will never remember the first couple of minutes immediately after I suffered a concussion sophomore year, but I will always remember the voicemail my friends left for me when they heard about what had happened...
...when the main act made it onstage, they revealed the surprisingly simple equation behind their recordings: a chilled-out folkie and a Dutch chamber musician, jamming like nobody’s business. There was Zammuto, a Williams College alum, half-closing his eyes to commune with an acoustic guitar. To his right sat de Jong, accented and eccentric, tearing mean riffs with his bow. At far left, frequent Book collaborator Ann Doerner offered tense keys and ethereal vocal harmonies (including a haunting Creole folk solo...
...simple, residing in the ethereal swoop of the slide guitar and the relentless emotional onslaught of the rhythm section. Listening to them is like riding a freight train with no brakes: there is a sense of unimpeachable momentum and force. When their songs demand it, each and every musician in Molina’s circle is more than able to play eloquent phrases...