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Tropical Heat Tour: Bali Part 2
Wednesday, July 4, 2012 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia A small island measuring just 69 x 95 miles nestled between Java and Lombok in the vast archipelago of Indonesia, Bali is covered with lush jungles,…
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Tropical Heat Tour: Bali Part 1
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Ubud, Bali, Indonesia Well, the big bad Bali bug bit me again! After my first-ever trip to Indonesia (or Southeast Asia, or hell, even Asia as a whole for…
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Tropical Heat Tour
Welcome to the Tropical Heat Tour, my second jaunt through Southeast Asia. From July 3 to September 13, 2012, I backpacked through Bali, Indonesia; Thailand and Myanmar to experience the insanely creative music,…
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Eleanor Hovda – The Eleanor Hovda Collection
Eleanor Hovda (1940-2009) was a fairly obscure American composer of post-minimal, early spectral works that spanned in time from the 1960s through the 2000s. After studying under such luminaries as Karlheinz Stockhausen and…
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Philip Blackburn – Ghostly Psalms
Philip Blackburn is a British-born, St. Paul, Minnesota-based composer who has been active since the 1980s, when he earned degrees at the Universities of Cambridge and Iowa. Best known as the director of…
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Dancers of Ubud
In May and June 2010, I visited the island of Bali in Indonesia for 17 days, mostly the cultural center of Ubud, where I went to amazing art museums, galleries, shops and restaurants…
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Jody Redhage – of Minutiae and Memory
Jody Redhage has been described as New York City’s singing cellist, which obviously means she sings and plays cello. Personally, I’d rather listen to her be quiet, choke her cello and force it…
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MC Maguire – Nothing Left to Destroy
First there was MC Escher, then came MC Donalds (better known as Mickey D’s), followed by MC Hammer. Now, MC Maguire takes his rightful place upon the world (sound) stage. Like his previous…
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Benjamin Broening – Recombinant Nocturnes
Lately, I’ve ben jammin’ with Benjamin. Well, not actually jammin’, but more like spelunking with his CD, Recombinant Nocturnes, which sends me floating through the middle of the night on a pissed mist…
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Peter Ivan Edwards – Object Lessons
Peter Ivan Edwards, also known as PIE, is an American-born composer and baker now based in Singapore. (I had no idea there was an avant-garde classical scene down there!) His first collection of…
