Editor Mike Silverton contributed to the print bi-monthly Fanfare first as a columnist and later as a reviewer for about a dozen years before he proposed to Madrigal Audio Laboratories that they sponsor an Internet music review. Thus La Folia. (The sponsorship ended with Madrigal Labs’ demise. La Folia has since operated absent sponsorship or ads.) In addition to having contributed articles to Stereo Review, The Absolute Sound, and most recently, StereoTimes.com, Silverton produced poetry readings for Pacifica Radio (WBAI, KPFA, KPFK), WNYC and the New School for Social Research dogs’ lifetimes ago. His own poetry has appeared in anthologies compiled by the late William Cole, poetry mags, Harper’s and The Nation. More recently Silverton has shown his art at Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, Maine, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. A two-CD set, Analogue Smoque, Pogus 21029-2, features Silverton reading his texts to musical accompaniments by Tom Hamilton and Al Margolis. Silvertonresides with his wife Lee, an artist, in an 1842 town house on the coast of Maine (in which Jefferson Davis spent a night in 1854).
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Label Report: Georg Graewe’s Random Acoustics
Before I learned of Georg Graewe’s (never George but sometimes Gräwe’s) Random Acoustics label, I’d long enjoyed his participation in a pair of hatART and trio of Music & Arts CDs.
Label Report: Georg Graewe’s Random Acoustics
Before I learned of Georg Graewe’s (never George but sometimes Gräwe’s) Random Acoustics label, I’d long enjoyed his participation in a pair of hatART and trio of Music & Arts CDs.
Five from hatART
Despite its diminutive size, hatART weighs in among the great ones…
Five from hatART
Despite its diminutive size, hatART weighs in among the great ones…
The William Kapell Edition
Under its RCA Red Seal (full price) imprint, BMG Classics has issued a nine-CD survey of pianist William Kapell
The William Kapell Edition
Under its RCA Red Seal (full price) imprint, BMG Classics has issued a nine-CD survey of pianist William Kapell
Paranormal Phenomena: Life Signs in the Executive Suite
Among the great pleasures of editing one’s own webzine is the publication of material one had otherwise mourned as lost to posterity.
Paranormal Phenomena: Life Signs in the Executive Suite
Among the great pleasures of editing one’s own webzine is the publication of material one had otherwise mourned as lost to posterity.
Label Report: Stefan Winter’s Winter & Winter
… it’s impossible to contemplate their packaging and fail to recognize a labor of love.
Label Report: Stefan Winter’s Winter & Winter
… it’s impossible to contemplate their packaging and fail to recognize a labor of love.
Label Report: NMC Recordings
If anything NMC lately has issued threatens to become a best-seller, it’s Arianna…
Label Report: NMC Recordings
If anything NMC lately has issued threatens to become a best-seller, it’s Arianna…
Label Report: Wulf Weinmann’s col legno
75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage and other col legno releases.
Label Report: Wulf Weinmann’s col legno
75 Jahre Donaueschinger Musiktage and other col legno releases.
Music at the Edge
Brian Brandt’s Mode Records features a gorgeous Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano as the 14th of its thusfar 17-volume John Cage series.
Music at the Edge
Brian Brandt’s Mode Records features a gorgeous Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano as the 14th of its thusfar 17-volume John Cage series.
Label Report: Hat Hut Records of Therwil, Switzerland
Before I depart from cool, as I’m given to do when thinking about one of my very favorite labels, I’ll try to calm myself by speculating in a therapeutically boring manner about where to begin.
Label Report: Hat Hut Records of Therwil, Switzerland
Before I depart from cool, as I’m given to do when thinking about one of my very favorite labels, I’ll try to calm myself by speculating in a therapeutically boring manner about where to begin.
Archeological Dig
Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…
Archeological Dig
Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…
Why Madrigal?
It says here in “30 Days to a Pulitzer” that the best titles are always terse.
Why Madrigal?
It says here in “30 Days to a Pulitzer” that the best titles are always terse.