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...pierced to the heart of every piece. In 1953 he died in a plane crash at 31. All that remained were his legend and a handful of recordings. Then in 2004 a trove of new Kapell performances surfaced, recorded at home by Australian department-store salesman Roy Preston from radio broadcasts of Kapell's final tour. A selection of those recordings is now being released in a two-disc set, WILLIAM KAPELL REDISCOVERED. Here, Kapell powerfully revisits some of his previously recorded repertory, especially Rachmaninoff and Mussorgsky, and displays a deepening mastery of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Debussy. Preston, alas...
...Perhaps this is an attempt to once again dominate American radio, which has given her a chilly reception for nearly a decade. Perhaps it’s also a surefire way to go out with a bang: she’s leaving Warner Records, the only label she’s ever called home, and attempting to prove she’s worth the $120 million Live Nation offered her to jump ship. Whatever the reasons behind her decision to work with these hitmen, the results are quite brilliant. The album may initially sound like everything else on the radio...
...track tends to be quite schizophrenic, most likely the result of Madge and her collaborators each bent on making their own influence known. This is probably why the majority of the record’s tracks range from four and a half to six minutes in length, becoming not radio-ready singles but explorations of musical themes. Every time a song is about to exhaust a sound, it moves on to something completely unexpected, particularly on “Incredible,” the juicy center of “Hard Candy...
...strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original material, here the band seems to revel in imperfection. The best example of this kind of self-conscious disruption is the first track, “Silence,” where a bizarre Portuguese radio monologue gives way to a primal drum line. Its time signature is only complicated by intermittent vocals, bass, and strings, sliding in and out of the song in a frustrating but fascinating pattern. Then, just as it all starts to build toward a frenzy, the song cuts out?...
...Gonsalves and Howes have children in the U.S. Howes, from Massachusetts, has eased his depression by adopting a stray dog. Gonsalves, of Connecticut, spends his days lifting makeshift weights and reading a Spanish Bible. The men cannot receive letters but do hear news of their families broadcast on Colombian radio...