Music
HER | alive.un.dead proves that some stories are best told by trusting the audience’s imagination.
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Neighbor is steeped in what could be considered rock ’n’ roll’s golden era — the ’70s. That is when bands could be — and were damn well expected to be— both technically dazzling and broadly appealing.
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The Kossoy Sister’s last area performance was at the 2012 Newport Folk Festival. Now both living in Guatemala, the pair are back for a Saturday matinee appearance at Club Passim.
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I am happy to report that Styx 2023 is a powerhouse outfit, wielding the most exciting aspects of progressive rock with radio-friendly hooks, riffs, and rhythms that set it apart from many of its peers.
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Two new releases, led respectively by a saxophonist and a bassist, add to the growing mystique of trios in contemporary jazz.
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Swiss composer Richard Flury’s engaging comic opera is a celebration of the life spirit, and a criticism of celibacy as a practice that cramps and distorts an individual’s basic humanity.
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A Far Cry’s program of new and old music revealed that the simplest gestures can generate wonder.
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Maybe The Zombies are not quite as elaborately visionary as they used to be, but after all this time that is no great sin. And Colin Blunstone and Ron Argent’s breathy but soulful voices have held up magnificently.
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The saxman and his usual band (including vocalist Patrice Quinn instead of the billed Ami Taf Ra) easily adapted to the 200-seat venue, barely modulating their visceral delivery while also highlighting their softer dynamics and a personal rapport.
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Singer Marc Jordan has earned his voice the hard way, trekking through the music business for 50 years, and there’s a weathered honesty in his music now.
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