Gold Cage - Social CrutchSocial Crutch' is the debut full length album of Los Angeles based post punk tinged slow core trio Gold Cage. Comprised of singer bassist Mony Katz, singer guitarist Cole Devine, and drummer Sage Ross, the band combines dreamy guitar loops, delicate, dueling vocals, and slow, driving tempos to create spacious arrangements that shimmer with atmosphere. Warmed with tape saturation, 'Social Crutch' is an exercise in measured minimalism, with every tone

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Bettinelli's piano music also reveals a debt to the instrumental composers at the turn of the last century who worked against the grain in this land of lyric and song: men such as Casella

Before the New Orleans-born piano pounder became a blues legend

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Koopman has recorded Buxtehude's Opera Omnia including Vocal Works (Cantatas

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from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

melodic and malevolent

and when the chance came along to join the Civil Rights Movement and become a Freedom Rider

were a product of the war years and reveal Weill at his most touchingly American

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