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The exciting and adventurous BROOKLYN RIDER have created another masterful collaboration with PHILIP GLASS, releasing his “String Quartets Nos. 6 & 7” on Orange Mountain Music.
It’s often said that the distilled essence of composers can be heard in their string quartets. And so it is with Glass, whose quartets here show a craftsman of considerable invention. String Quartet No. 6 begins as a bustling burst of dense energy, its second movement beautifully meandering, rich, and complex. The single-movement String Quartet…
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BIG EARS 2018 is coming MARCH 22-25; once again, Knoxville blesses the world with a feast of extraordinary and ear opening musical happenings. Check out the lineup!
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire,” – Gustav Mahler. From 100+ spellbinding performances to rare film screenings, artist discussions to explorations of poetry and literature, art exhibitions to secret shows and pop-ups, Big Ears 2017 was filled to the brim with unique experiences. Revisit highlights from the 2017 festival…
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NEW RELEASES, 1/19: BELLE ADAIR, JOHNNY GANDELSMAN, JACK WHITE, RON GALLO, BELLE & SEBASTIAN, GLEN HANSARD, BOBO STENSON & more!
After 10 years producing and recording albums for Brooklyn Rider and Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny Gandelsman releases a debut solo album. Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for violin solo are a magnificent repertoire for Gandelsman’s interpretations, which draw on his experiences with Silkroad, Brooklyn Rider, dance and non-classical musicians to add rich layers to Bach’s…
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PARKER GISPERT (of The Whigs) just dazzled us with a dreamy, moving solo in-store performance before his full-length show at THE RADIO ROOM, and GREENVILLE braved the cold and turned out strong!
We knew that PARKER GISPERT’S new album SUNLIGHT TONIGHT reimagined the “solo acoustic” concept as something much more massive and gorgeous.
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Dig the spectacular jazz-rock fusion of the Chicago quartet MARBIN at THE FIRMAMENT in Greenville on Thurs., March 29th!
There’s nothing that warms our cold winter hearts here at Horizon like some seriously tasty, guitar-heavy fusion jazz, and that’s exactly what we’ve discovered in the Chicago-by-way-of-Israel quartet known as Marbin. When Dani Rabin (guitar), Blake Jiracek (drums), Danny Markovitch (saxophone) and Jon Nadel (bass) take flight, these guys hit that sweet spot between prog-rock and straight-ahead…
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NEW RELEASES, 1/12: TINSLEY ELLIS, ANDERSON EAST, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, JOE SATRIANI and some sweet live BIG STAR from the archives!
Winning Hand, the new album from Tinsley Ellis on Alligator Records, is the veteran bluesman at his finest as a songwriter and guitarist. The epic six-minute slow blues “Gamblin’ Man” is alone worth the price, but the album is packed with hard-hitting, groove-driven electric blues. In the very first track an unexpected key change introduces…
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S. C. BACH returns for a very big spring concert on Sunday, March 25th: Explore the beauty and majesty of BACH!
S.C. Bach returns for a very big spring concert on Sunday March 25 from 3:30-6pm at Christ Church in Greenville (Saturday 7-9:30pm at Wofford in Spartanburg). Artistic director and conductor David Rhyne offers us the beauty and majesty of Bach’s music yet again since his choir and instrumentalists were re-formed and rejuvenated when they started…
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Pianist, horn player, composer, and all-around musical disruptor DJANGO BATES brings back his Belovèd Trio with “The Study of Touch,” his ECM debut as a bandleader.
As the album notes for The Study of Touch indicate, Bates had little interest in adding another piano trio to the jazz world but while teaching at the Copenhagen Rhythmic Music Academy in 2005 he came into contact with bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun and the Belovèd Trio was born. Their two previous…
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Our main in-store sound guru, Mr. STEVE MCGOWAN, lists his top five fave releases of 2017 (with a bonus pick) and breaks down the best live shows, too!
If you’ve ever been to an in-store show at Horizon Records, the odds are the man behind the board conjuring up that sweet live sound mix is our buddy, 70’s-style garage rocker and renowned local recording engineer Steve McGowan. In addition to making everything from solo acoustic shows to full-band blasts sound great, McGowan is…
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NEW RELEASES, 12/15: DALE WATSON, NEW ORDER, EMINEM, N.E.R.D., BOOSIE BADAZZ, the STRANGER THINGS, VOL. 2 soundtrack, JEEZY & more!
The fifth NERD album charged into view with a ferocious lead-off single, Lemon, its relentless, speedy beat playing host to both a guest appearance from Rihanna and a sample from a YouTube video of rapper Retch shouting out to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X while smoking a joint amid a crowd of baffled-looking white…