The shared musical DNA of Gilberto Gil and Devendra Banhart
The shared musical DNA of Gilberto Gil and Devendra Banhart
The artists, who share the bill Sunday at the Hollywood Bowl, blur the lines between genres.
Gilberto Gil has released more than 50 albums in his career — the latest is “Banda Larga Cordel,” which came out this month. That puts him about 45 ahead of Devendra Banhart , but the Brazilian musical icon, 65, and the Los Angeles-based folk-rock eccentric share a passion for eradicating distinctions among musical genres, as they’ll demonstrate when they play at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday as part of the KCRW World Festival series.
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the Greek Theatre
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss travel the yellow brick road.
The genre of pop standards is a bit out of bounds for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss , whose high-profile collaboration excavates a more traditional sector of America’s musical geography. But when the singers and their band came to the Greek Theatre on Monday, there was something of “The Wizard of Oz” about it.
Classical music online: Salonen, Sellars and Mozart
A concert honoring the L.A. Philharmonic music director and a shocking interpretation of ‘Zaide’ show the Internet’s potential as a window to a wider world.
I do not unconditionally celebrate the Internet, particularly its intrusion into classical music. As replacements for the record store, Amazon and iTunes have become necessary evils. Typical commercial downloads are sonic shadows of the superior sound of CDs. Blogs ghettoize critics. YouTube is pretty much a toy.