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Finding a melancholic balance
... revealed across four EPs. Russian Linesman writes all his music on acoustic guitar and piano, harking back to a past ... touring as an acoustic singer/songwriter playing folk music. This ethos has evolved into recording with vocals as ... and in turn finding...
An invigorating look at heroin and jazz
... heroin epidemic prevalent in the 40s and 50s jazz music scene in the USA. Prudent music choices from the period place the listener at the heart ... for drug addiction, the ‘Narcotic Farm’, where music played a huge part. The researchers of the...
Things not to say to someone with schizophrenia
... whether the bright yellow backdrop with modern jazz music played throughout portrayed the vibrancy of life, ... spans and promoted the therapeutic value of colour and music. These characteristics of brightness with jazz music perhaps challenge...
A curveball angle
... and interact. Let us take this third suggestion first. Music in three time ‘projects itself’ onto curves of ... and vision (as in the kite flying of Ray Bethell) while music in four or two time hearkens unto marching and jumping. ... is increasingly normative...
Universalise that human experience
... . The album bridges modern classical and electronic music, with swelling strings offset by disquieting scratches ... and Goula tells me: ‘Unconsciously I always relate my music to a psychological experience by trying to universalise ...
The fringes of the human mind
... one-man show as ‘an exploration of the modern mind with music, anecdotes and medical notes’. He was able to create ... guitar and keyboard; the journey felt palpable as the music represented the ‘manic’ phase of bipolar disorder ...
A lullaby for a frenetic world
... broke records as the longest single continuous piece of music ever broadcast live on the BBC. Richter, a prolific and ... I woke in the morning with a sense of ease, as if the music had cocooned me safely all night. I was left thinking ...
A safe space for tough topics
... a background of her parents’ house, her parents’ music and her parents’ friends, she and Robbie have taken ...
Diving into something new
... 300 events encompassing film, theatre, literature and music. The experience of mental health difficulties is ...
Waxing and waning on Goldfrapp's discography
... discovered was about oral sex. That track was the defining music of several films including My Summer of Love , a 2004 ...
Heightening the senses
... allowed visitors to interact with moving sand, light and music to give the effect of seeing colours in response to ...
Pain, fear and joy – beyond hysteria
... sessions in which they would make up poems and set them to music, using simple popular tunes (Carrera, 2009, ... emotions: New connections in the histories of art, music and medicine. Aldershot: Ashgate. Rousseau, J. (1993). ...
Reasons why you should proceed with caution
... ‘Hollywood’ about this series that is inescapable. The music is all too dramatic, the scenes of characters crying ...
Exploding with fiery intelligence
... had a bath-time ritual – he’d light candles, play music through a little speaker, add various oils to the ... positive to say about romantic love, or intoxication, or music, dancing and the arts in general – all of which ... or at its best the Ecstatic . . . It...
Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
... by crashing waves? Did the layering on of powerful music from Carmen and La Traviata alongside Tom Waits, Bruce ...
Basquiat – ‘hauntingly relevant to today’s world’
... were more like electric magnified pages of his notebooks. Music also was an important influence, and it can be argued ...
Pop gifted
... rescues the sobbing child. Beach and sunset. The folksy music swells. The ending is compromise and she gets to join ...
Mapping Fatherland
... Poem' on homelessness at Unfear on Oldham Street. Original music from the show, by Karl Hyde and Matthew Herbert, is ...
The art of revolution
... on the Sea of Azov into a professional family. She studied music in Geneva and law in St. Petersburg, but decided to ... my advice; A kiss, my darling, is not for the ear, And music is not for the eyes.” References Chandler, R., ...