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Lennon and McCartney go head-to-head yet again.
Ram was McCartney’s second solo album, released in 1971, and is a prime example of how popular music, on its release, is adjudged by so many factors other than music. Macca was in disfavour in 1971, regarded, wrongly, as the man who broke up The Beatles and also as the politico-spiritual lightweight of the quartet (Ringo has always been given a pass on these matters!). 50 years later, disconnected from all such blather,
Ram is a jolly thing, scrappy but fun, with an unpretentious thrown-together quality, songs such as lo-fi Beach Boys pastiche “Dear Boy” rubbing up against the entertainingly silly, music hall rockin’ ode to marjuana “Monkberry Moon Delight”. It does, indeed, sound like a man decompressing after the monumental, generational expectations placed on his previous band. In gatefold, it also comes half-speed mastered so sounds great. Lennon’s first solo effort, the
Gwangju Biennale explores wide spectrum of art touching the communal mind
Posted : 2021-04-08 11:30
Updated : 2021-04-08 12:21 The 13th Gwangju Biennale exhibition shows Outi Pieski s Beavvit II/ Rising Together II, left, and Min Joung-ki s landscape painting, Byeokgye Nine Banded Stream, Buk-gu, Gwangju, April 1. Yonhap
By Lee Gyu-lee
The coronavirus pandemic has changed so much of people s lives and the ways things are done. The Gwangju Biennale is no exception.
The Biennale, one of the largest art events in Asia, has had its fair share of challenges in bringing the much-anticipated show to art lovers.
The exhibition got pushed back twice ― from last September to this February, and then to this April ― and the organizers had to arrange and install most of the artworks without having the international artists present in Korea.