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Musk Ox vs. MuskOx

Posted Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 11:17pm by Darin Tambascio

After reading about three acoustic interludes on Agalloch’s The Serpent & The Sphere being written by a Canadian songwriter in a band called Musk Ox, I immediately found a Bandcamp page for an instrumental band from Toronto called MuskOx.  

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Category: Album Reviews

Tags: Musk Ox, MuskOx, prog, neo-folk, banjo, chamber music, krautrock, post-rock, doom metal, jazz, classical

Rock Meets Classical, Part 3: Prog-Rock Classical Covers

Posted Saturday, March 8, 2014 - 9:16am by Gabriel Riccio

Robert Fripp

 

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Category: Musicians Corner

Tags: King Crimson, Gustav Holst, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Leos Janacek, Bela Bartok, JS Bach, Modest Mussorgsky, Alberto Ginastera, Yes, Rick Wakeman, Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, Stick Men, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, The Bad Plus, Oceansize, Maurice Ravel, progressive rock, classical, Muse, George Rochberg, Sergei Rachmaninov, Panta Rhei, Sergei Prokofiev, Joaquín Rodrigo

Rock Meets Classical, Part 1: Who Cares?

Posted Friday, February 28, 2014 - 7:26pm by Gabriel Riccio

What is the future of music? After musicians in the 20th century broke down nearly every barrier, what is left to explore?

 

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Category: Musicians Corner

Tags: Milton Babbitt, Evan Ziporyn, Steve Reich, Pierre Boulez, Frank Zappa, Bang on a Can, Radiohead, Johnny Greenwood, Krzysztof Penderecki, rock, classical, gamelan, serialism, minimalism, The National
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