Category: Electronica
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Sermon of Sound: An Evening with Laraaji + Saapato
It’s Saturday night, and the pews are full at the Ridgewood Presbyterian Church in Queens, redubbed the Stone Circle Theater. The pulpit consists of two tables covered in electronic knobs, keypads, and percussion instruments. Projected behind the pulpit, a screensaver traces a river’s path through an autumn forest canyon, inadvertently making the life-size Jesus figure Read more
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Live Soundtrack Cinema: JG Thirwell @ The Nitehawk
The house lights dimmed and so did the clinking of glasses and silverware. Ushers scurried across Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema to collect more kitchen and bar orders as King Kong and Godzilla warned the crowd to silence their phones on a homemade reel. Half-hidden behind a rack of keyboards and mixing pads in the corner near Read more
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Cosmic Music: The Celestial Songs of Alice Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
The harp has the power to unite opposites. It’s large enough to dwarf its player, yet it produces a gentle twinkle. Players pluck a rapid succession of notes by running their hands across the strings, yet the effect is soothing to the ear. You can find one in the hands of angels in religious iconography, Read more
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Back to the Futurism: Kraftwerk @ King’s Theatre, Brooklyn, 3/13/25
Man-machine, computer-love, dance music played to a sold out theater of seated adults, a song called “Musique Non Stop” immediately before the concert stops… Kraftwerk juxtaposes unlikely concepts with infectious rhythm, mesmerizing colors and anachronistic techno-optimism. German quartet Kraftwerk pioneered electronic music starting in 1970. Their music has inspired nearly everyone making electronica or techno Read more