Miles Davis takes a bow on new 1991 live album; Harold Land is Westward Bound ; and Jen Shyu sings of loss sandiegouniontribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sandiegouniontribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Roulette Intermedium Jen Shyu performing here piece Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Losses at Roulette in April 2021 More and more I ve wanted to tell my story, as who I am, the singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Jen Shyu says in this episode of The Checkout. And also really thinking about others who might look like me, or feel, perhaps, othered or marginalized.
That impulse, extending both inward and outward, informed Shyu s audacious and deeply personal new album,
Zero Grasses: Ritual For the Losses, released this spring on Pi Recordings. A meditation on mortality and identity, it bears a dedication to her father, Tsu Pin Shyu, who died unexpectedly at his home in Houston in 2019.
Every St. Vincent album comes with a fresh concept and persona.
On 2014′s St. Vincent, singer and shape-shifter Annie Clark was a near future cult leader. On 2017′s Masseduction, she was like a dominatrix at a mental institution, pealing off wicked guitar solos while done up in latex and high heels.
With Daddy s Home, Clark time-travels back to 1970s New York. She s calling the new aesthetic Gena Rowlands in a Cassavetes film, evoked in a color palette of the world of Taxi Driver.
Musically, that means touches of early 70s Stevie Wonder funk and swirling Pink Floyd prog, hard-hitting horns on the opening Pay Your Way In Pain, and gauzy interludes on several tracks that turn into drifting mood pieces. She continues to work with New Jersey producer-to-the-stars Jack Antonoff also a go-to guy for Taylor Swift, Lorde and Lana Del Rey, among others.
Album reviews: St Vincent, Tom Jones, Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue gazettextra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazettextra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rescue, as well as traditional and popular songs. View here for three days.
7:30 pm ET: Met Opera Streams presents Verdi’s
Luisa Miller. Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Olesya Petrova, Piotr Beczala, Plácido Domingo, Alexander Vinogradov, and Dmitry Belosselskiy, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Production by Elijah Moshinsky. From April 14, 2018. View here and for 24 hours.
8 pm ET: Seattle Opera presents
The Big Opera Show. A journey through Seattle Opera s upcoming season featuring special guests and a performance by tenor, Lawrence Brownlee, who got his start in Seattle Opera’s young artist program.
The Big Opera Show is hosted by actor, director, and emcee Rebecca M. Davis with performers including Kenneth Kellogg and Karen Vuong. No fee to attend but donations made during the event will allow Seattle Opera to keep singing until it is safe to gather again. Register and view here.