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National Theater Company of Korea to present experimental plays Posted : 2021-04-02 16:46 By Park Ji-won Poster for "Setup 202" by the National Theater Company of Korea (NTCK) / Courtesy of NTCKThe National Theater Company of Korea (NTCK) will showcase experimental plays exploring diversity issues as part of its project to question conventional wisdom and formats of plays at the theater from April 16 to May 10. Titled "Setup 202," meaning taking one step further from 101, the art troupe will ...

Featured Tracks: Play Track “我想跟所有遇到的人試一下 wo xiang gen suoyou yudao de ren shi yixia” — Li DaiguoVia  Bandcamp / Buy Take a minute to scan Li Daiguo’s discography and you’ll find tracklists full of evocative titles. “A steady heartbeat is the sound of death” is one such chin-scratcher, but there are others that rival the length and bemusing dramatics of Keiji Haino’s inscriptions. Liâ€...

Bandcamp / Buy It takes less than a minute for Yaral Sa Doom to begin levitating. Multi-instrumentalist Arouna Kane and producer Karl Jonas Winqvist ground their collaborative effort in the playing of Kane’s Senegalese countrymen and contributions from Winqvist’s fellow Swedes, but in their production, the duo massage guitar, hand drums, sax, and flute until each is pliable, soft, and almost putty-like, molding the instrumentation to tissue-thin synths and richly reverbed vocal...

Bandcamp / Buy From the 16th through the 18th century, the viol, or viola da gamba, was so common that many affluent homes kept multiple specimens in varying sizes in a dedicated chest. The viol was eventually supplanted by other members of the violin family, although in the past half century, early-music specialists like Jordi Savall have contributed to a revival of the instrument. And in the 1980s, Czechoslovakian couple Irena Havlová and Vojtěch Havel also dusted off the viol to ...

Open share drawer Two notable sidemen collaborate on an elusive instrumental album inspired by funk, West African, and Cuban music. The melodies are fleeting and the arrangements ever-shifting. Contradictory as it sounds, Pino Palladino is possibly the most famous working session bassist. The 63-year-old Welshman is known for his glissando tone and melodic fills, and he has built a four-decade career as the ultimate supporting player: providing a Stravinsky-inspired fretless performance on Paul...

Message : Required fields March 10 (Reuters) - Interim data from a late-stage study of their experimental COVID-19 antibody therapy showed an 85% reduction in hospitalization or death in patients, Vir Biotechnology Inc and GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday. Following the data an independent panel has recommended stopping the trial, the two companies said, adding they were planning to submit an emergency use authorization application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment....

California Sen. Richard Pan, a Democrat, is once again infringing health freedom with a new op-ed in The Washington Post that calls people who resist Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination [...]

Bandcamp / Buy Though she tends to sing softly, Eve Adams has never been one to mince words. On her first two records, the Oklahoma native sounded like a natural-born torch singer cocooned in a cloud of smoke, her straight-from-the-heart serenades wilfully corrupted by all manner of lo-fi abstraction. Still, the album titles—2017’s Candy Colored Doom—provided a crystal-clear indication of where her head was at, and when her words did occasionally cut through the textural h...

Bandcamp / Buy Time and distance collapse in the music of the Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena. With little more than their two voices, Helena Ros and Marta Torrella connect the far corners of the Mediterranean, drawing on traditions stretching back more than a thousand years. Pack Pro Nobis, an expanded edition of two EPs released in 2019 and 2020, gathers songs from Crete, Corsica, Mallorca, Menorca, and Andalucía; the two women sing in Spanish, Catalan, Greek, Latin, English, and even...

Nick Cave’s cinematic work with his bandmate Warren Ellis is a slight departure from last decade’s trilogy of albums. It’s defined by its stark contrasts, at turns brutal, surreal, and romantic.