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Band’s End
Via guardian.co.uk
Feb 19
“Staff Benda Bilili, at least as we have known and loved them for the past few years, are no more.” Andy Morgan reports what happened to the Congolese group of street musicians who rose to international stardom before finances and suspicion effectively did them in.
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Talking Drums: Glenn Kotche and Martin Dosh
Doug Benidt
Feb 11
Swapping roles as interviewer and interviewed, percussionists Glenn Kotche (Wilco) and Martin Dosh (Dosh, Andrew Bird) share a bit of common time to ruminate on influences, matters of style, and “Ah-ha!” moments. Repeat performers at the Walker—Kotche at Rock the Garden 2003 and Dosh at a festival in his honor in 2008—the pair opens an insider’s window into the world of the professional drummer.
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Passings: Donald Byrd
Via pitchfork.com
Feb 7
Prolific jazz/R&B trumpeter Donald Byrd has passed away at age 80. After a career-launching stint with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Byrd went on to record more than 40 solo albums, in addition to sideman gigs with the likes of Monk, Coltrane, and Hancock.
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“Completely Punk Rock”: Cindy Sherman’s (Nearly) Forgotten History with Babes in Toyland
Via walkerart.org
Feb 7
“Cindy Sherman is totally, completely punk rock.” Lori Barbero has some credibility in making that assessment. As drummer of the late, great Minneapolis band Babes in Toyland, she knows the artist well: Sherman’s photographs are on the covers of two Babes albums; her imagery was featured on stage banners; and the artist had a cameo–as doppelganger of lead singer Kat Bjelland–in a 1991 music video.
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Love Song to a Clement World
Julie Caniglia
Feb 5
During a 2010 trip to the Arctic, Cynthia Hopkins serenaded a sailing vessel, the Noorderlicht, that carried her and other artists on what she calls a “lucky, life-transforming” journey. First sung with ukelele accompaniment on the ship’s deck, the song is now part of Hopkins’ new climate-themed music-theater work, one she characterizes as a “love song to the miraculous clemency of our world.”
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Woody Updated
Via cynthiahopkins.com
Feb 5
Cynthia Hopkins, whose Walker-co-comissioned This Clement World opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse in New York Tuesday, offers a song from the music-theater piece—a climate-crisis reworking of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land.”
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Women & Population
Via creativetimereports.org
Feb 4
Immigrant women are having fewer children, Barbara Crossette, author of two UN population reports, tells Laurie Anderson. “It shows that if you just let women from the developing world have the same rights—or, rather, access—that we have, they make smart decisions.”
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New Stetson
Via brooklynvegan.com
Jan 31
Sax player Colin Stetson (Sound Horizon 2012) drops a new LP, New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light, Apr. 30. Mixed by Ben Frost (who plays a Walker-copresented gig in St. Paul next week), it features four tracks with vocals by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver).
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Passings: Butch Morris
Via nytimes.com
Jan 30
New music pioneer Butch Morris has passed away at 65 after a battle with cancer. The inventor of “conduction”—“an improvised duet for ensemble and conductor”—he has worked with an array of artists, from Christian Marclay and John Zorn to Burnt Sugar.