Andy Warhol predicted in 1968 that the time would come that everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Seems to me Rhys‘ Hot Summer is what happens when people try to stretch that to half an hour:
Rhys (one name only, y’know, like Cher) has put out this execrable single, Hot Summer. Cringeworthy rhyme-schemes, a [...]
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji is one of the most intriguing compositional figures of the twentieth century. Most of his compositions demand super-mortal technical ability, memory and endurance. (Check the multi-hour Opus Clavicembalisticum.) Music is often densely contrapuntal and the musical language is highly coloured and exotic.
For something more “approachable” though, I love this positively ridiculous [...]
