Laurie Anderson - Landfall - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Japanese pressing. Through the Fire is the first and only recording by the band Hagar Schon Aaronson Shrieve, also known as HSAS. The album was recorded live with guitar overdubs added later. Universal. 2018.

Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the listener into the present moment and provide a framework for inner exploration. Anderson, Choegyal, and Smith fuse modern compositional techniques with the mystique of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy to make these visionary traditions more accessible to a new generation of listeners and to reveal the ancient wisdoms contained within.

'The textured harmonies and pop sunshine on The DeMos' new CD, 'Your Girl Has Fun Without You,' has the band officially at the top of my list. In the whole tug-o-war between melody and balls it's a tie, thanks to the band's Everly-esque harmonies and classic 1970's AM radio pop. Cool and casual, The DeMos create a type of on-stage rock fervor that gets 'em squealin'. This is truly what pop music should sound like, and the new album seems more like a continuation than a progression or departure from the previous two. That's a good thing it ain't broke, but it will definitely break hearts.' - Frank De Blase, Rochester City Newspaper.