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Because he suffered from asthma as a boy, Eggleston was mostly an indoor child, absorbed by the piano, cameras and sound equipment. Later he attended a few colleges, including Vanderbilt and the University of Mississippi, without managing to graduate from any. But at Ole Miss, where he studied painting, he started to wonder seriously about photography. And by the early '70s, he had come upon dye-transfer printing, a method that produces deeply saturated color. This is why, when he makes a picture of a rooftop sign that reads PEACHES!, the orange letters just about sear your retina...
...vibe throughout despite some funky experimentation in the rhythm section and a foray into reggae (the album’s first single, “Make You Crazy”). When the lyrics are plodding and over-deliberate, a surprise guitar lick or nice chord progression on the piano keeps things from getting too dull. The sound is thoroughly Californian, and lo and behold, Dennen hails from Oakdale, Calif. To his credit, he has done extensive work with The Mosaic Project, a San Francisco-based non-profit that educates children on diversity. He even made an album of music-related...
...Touched Something’s Hollow,” while dangerously close to chord-for-chord replication of “Imagine” (and the intro to “Don’t Look Back in Anger”), is a short but satisfying piano-driven break from the mayhem, and transitions nicely into the horn-dominated “An Eluardian Instance.” “Death Is Not a Parallel Move” has a nice pastoral acoustic section which also flows coolly into following track, “Beware Our Nubile Miscreants...
...very promising introduction, but in fact Yan, who moved to Beijing from Lanzhou city in Gansu province nine years ago, makes compelling, hypnotic music. Think of spacey sound effects, found sounds (like recordings made in the middle of a field) and the occasional punctuation of delicate piano notes...
...Eastwood has always been a prolific auteur, and never more so than in his twilight years. Since turning 70 in 2000, he's released eight films as a director, including the Oscar-winning Million Dollar Baby and a feature-length documentary, Piano Blues. On Christmas Day there'll be another movie, Gran Torino, which he stars in as well as directing. He couldn't do this if he didn't work fast (and relatively cheap). Screenwriters love him; if he likes a script, he shoots it without demanding a million rewrites. Actors love him too; if he likes Take...