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As digital music files become larger and higher definition, some folk are getting creative using old school technology to make music. Check this out!
About ten years ago, I first heard Tom Zé's Com Defeito de Fabricação (1998) and subsequently discovered the Tropicália movement of the late 1960s. I had heard and enjoyed bossa nova and other Brazilian-inspired jazz in my earlier college years, but the psychedelic tinges of Tropicália artists...
I read about Bonnie "Prince" Billy's music in a profile of the man behind the music, Will Oldham, in a recent article in The New Yorker. The piece, "The Pretender: Will Oldham transfigures American music" by Kelefa Sanneh appeared in the January 5, 2009 issue.
I don't know how to write a music...