As one third of Sun City Girls, Alan Bishop is one of the towering figures of the American musical underground of the last 30 years, and his musical output knows very few boundaries, whether in his solo guise as Alvarius B., or through the global releases of the Sublime Frequencies label, which he’s operated since [...]
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Alan Bishop & Sam Shalabi at Sharjah’s 10th Biennial (18/3/11)
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged Alan Bishop, Plot for a Biennial, Sam Shalabi, Score for a Biennial on March 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mazen Kerbaj & Sharif Sehnaoui’s Wormholes at Sharjah’s March Meeting (14/3/11)
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged March Meeting, Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui, Sharjah Biennial 11, Wormholes on March 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One would not expect a performance consisting of live drawing and guitar soloing to be so physical. Sharif Sehnaoui is bent over his acoustic guitar, placed horizontally on his knees, his body contorting at times, erect at others, eyes closed in extreme concentration, while he strikes, pounds and hammers the instrument with mallets and sticks. [...]
Jeff Martin (Tea Party, The Armada) at The Basement, 31/08/10
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged Jeff Martin, Salim Hbeiliny, The Armada, The Basement, The Tea Party on September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I stumbled on an archive of old photographs (well, not that old, as they are all digital) while going through my PC desktop at home. Local bands and musicians, foreign musicians playing in Lebanon, etc. Some interesting, most of them serving archival purposes, more than anything else. I will be posting a selection of those [...]
Jose Gonzalez Live at Basement (6 Oct 2008)
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged acoustic, Basement, beth gibbons, ditties, emotional, in our nature, jim white, jose gonzalez, martin stephenson, smalltown boy, veneer on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have mixed feelings about this night. First of all, there is the slightly egocentric issue of having to mix the entire first part of the evening hidden behind a large, white drape, situated behind the band. While it made sense for Jose to play in front of a drape, it made much less sense [...]
Wire, Live in Paris Sept 2008
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged alarming, Colin Newman, Maroquinerie, nervous, proto-punk, raucous on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wire, Live in Paris (La Maroquinerie, 27/09/08) This proved to be a historic week, on my own, personal, musical level. I had been a fan of British proto-punk Wire since acquiring a Best of their early years, ‘On Returning’, somewhere in the early 90′s, from the dusty shelves of the first music store where I [...]
Munma & Trash Inc. at B018
Posted in Concert Reviews, WRITINGS, tagged B018, beat, breaks, clicks, dance, electronic, equipment, house, laptop, live venue, loops, minimal, synthesized on September 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Munma & Trash Inc. Live at B018 (19/09/08) Click on the following link to listen to 30 minutes from the set: munma-trash-inc-live-b018 Neither Jawad Nawfal (aka Munma) or Nabil Saliba (aka Trash Inc) are new to live venues or performing in front of a crowded audience. Jawad has taken his AEX and Munma formations to various [...]
