Springtime Can Kill You with Wine Dark Sea: Jolie Holland in Conversation (Part 2)
[Continued from Part 1] JH: Well, what did you want to talk about with Mexican Blue? GT: I’ve been trying to figure out this album of yours for years. JH: Whoa, what have you been trying to figure out? GT: I’ve been trying to figure out why it has just wrapped around me. It feels […]
Springtime Can Kill You with Wine Dark Sea: Jolie Holland in Conversation (Part 1)
Jolie Holland has a new record called Wine Dark Sea. Due for release some time next year, it’s sort of a return, but in the same it’s a continued expansion of an ever-widening grip on the varied elements of music that make up her universe. I spoke with her a week before going into the […]
Watch and Listen
So begins a weekly recommendation of movies whose selection is governed by a particular moment, consideration, or state of mind. This week’s topic: more than a music doc -Shut Up and Play the Hits - How to attend your funeral and live to tell about it. -Scott Walker: 30 Century Man - Ways we are not thinking […]
Working in the BBC Soundscape: An Interview with Sarah Class
Recently I got ahold of music for the BBC documentary series Africa and was immediately struck by its quality and talent. Composer Sarah Class, a veteran of BBC as well as many other ventures into disparate territories, manages a landscape of orchestration that is beautiful, compelling, and far beyond what I’ve grown to expect from […]
