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Archive for May, 2008

It’s Never Too Late to Rediscover the Musician Inside of You

Do you recall the day you traded in your guitar for a job at the bank or gave up your piano lessons to become a doctor? Have you been thinking about rediscovering your musical roots as soon as your retirement kicks in? Are you still hoping that some day you’ll get to dust off your sax and join t…

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Cloudland Canyon “Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004″ (Tee Pee Records) - Music Review

God bless the freaks! In this increasingly homogenized world any appearance of the mutant tendency is a cause for celebration. Think of it this way, the impulse towards rebellion and originality were traditionally the purview of artists and mystics. Artists inherited the previous generation’s th…

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Musical Values

Every musical capacity had its taproots in the lower forms of animal life, where song and vocal calls of warning, attraction, endearment, and sociability tended to preserve the individual, perpetuate the species, and integrate the group. The rising need of vocal communication in the animal world …

Thursday, May 29th, 2008