New sounds on old instruments
Writing at The Rumpus, author Rick Moody writes about what makes music traditional -- and touches on something folks in the Capital Region have known for some time: Matthew Loiacono is awesome:
I bring all of this up because Matthew, I think, despite what you might think from the foregoing embodies the tradition now. In the following way: he totally knows and reveres all the traditional stuff, and he plays a very traditional instrument (though I have now sat around singing with him a few times, and apparently he can play anything with strings on it), and he has the soul of an Old Time music lover. But he describes his music as "new sounds on old instruments," which means that he is also completely up-to-speed on all the contemporary new media approaches to things. For example, he now has a webmail project going where he sends new music to his friends every week.
There's more in the piece. (The part about Matthew starts about halfway down.)
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Earlier on AOA: Interesting in 2008: Matthew Loiacono
photo: Bryan Thomas
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Hear, hear!
... said Naomi on Dec 17, 2009 at 4:03 PM | link
Seconded! New/old, f*** it! Who knows what history is anymore, anyway?
... said His-tory on Dec 18, 2009 at 9:19 PM | link