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Cycles EP
It seems that many artists this year have taken up the slow release model for their music. And it makes sense, because what s the rush? With a pandemic that s still keeping most of us inside, especially musicians and performers, a leisurely release pace naturally follows. And while it s normal to release a single or two (or four) for an album or EP, releasing an entire EP or album song by song seems to be the way we re doing things now. SLC artist Igama is also on the slow release train, starting the release for his EP
Cycles at the end of 2020 with the aptly titled track Begin, which dropped Dec. 22. The track, like the rest of the four-piece electronic EP, bobs between gentle, warm synth parts that evoke splattering rain on water, Ghibli-style, before deeper, wilder drum beats ricochet through the landscape. New Agey atmospherics are glued to earth by watery House aesthetics, and on the second track Expand (released in 2021 on Jan. 8), dub-ish beats help the song
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
Alan Pasqua, the go-to keyboard wiz for jazz and rock legends, on Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana and Peter Erskine [The San Diego Union-Tribune :: BC-MUS-PASQUA:SD]
When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.
Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles.
“I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckily, I was free that day!” Pasqua recalled. More recently, he performed on “Murder Most Foul,” the nearly 17-minute epic from “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” Dylan’s masterful 2020 album.
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When Bob Dylan needed a genre-leaping keyboard great to provide supple instrumental accompaniment for his belated 2016 Nobel Prize acceptance speech-cum-lecture, the best person was close at hand.
Alan Pasqua, who in 2009 was named the Chair of the Jazz Studies Department at USC’s Thornton School of Music, had toured and recorded with Dylan in the late 1970s. The two live about 20 miles from each other in Los Angeles.
“I did not know the text for Bob’s speech, but I knew what it was for and was asked to record about 30 minutes of music, piano musings, nothing too specific. Luckily, I was free that day!” Pasqua recalled. More recently, he performed on “Murder Most Foul,” the nearly 17-minute epic from “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” Dylan’s masterful 2020 album.