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December 2, 2006

Erasure- Abbaesque

Filed under: pop — alice @ 9:03 pm

I got a cheapo CD of Erasure’s Abba-esque, a brave and clever recording of four covers of Abba songs which you will not like if early 90s gay disco isn’t your thing. It is very very men in jeans and white t-shirts with ultra-short hair. However, Vince Clark the keyboard man does jolly clever things, and they obviously genuinely like Abba, these are serious covers done well (if you like the style) (except that the crescendic build-up in Lay all your love on me is missing, my only real quibble), which it is surprising more people fail to even attempt, never mind achieve, given the staggering genius of the songs. But people still underestimate Abba even now, regarding them as mere pop stars rather than modern operatic superstar universal geniuses, as they should.

November 29, 2006

misc. / Ackroyd: London, a biography

Filed under: Uncategorized, books, jazz, history — alice @ 4:26 pm

November 27, 2006

the jazz project

Filed under: music — alice @ 11:28 am

November 12, 2006

Yefim Bronfman, Mozart, Rachmaninov

Filed under: music — alice @ 6:59 pm

December 26, 2005

show tunes

Filed under: music — alice @ 8:55 pm

October 6, 2005

another piano playing post

Filed under: music — alice @ 1:32 pm

September 21, 2005

music repair shop

Filed under: music, shopping — alice @ 4:59 pm

September 2, 2005

music note

Filed under: music — alice @ 7:47 pm

September 1, 2005

When Lizt plays Beethoven

Filed under: music — alice @ 7:56 pm

August 29, 2005

beethoven

Filed under: music — alice @ 1:22 pm