Mangan, Dan
Summary: The fifth album from Dan Mangan uses perceptive wit and storytelling to grapple with the experience of growing older and becoming a new parent in an increasingly distressing world, finding hope and love while forging ahead into an unknown future.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK MANKanaan, Faten.
Summary: It is the new album from Brooklyn-based composer and musical artist Faten Kanaan, her first to be released on Fire Records. Cyclical patterns and 'variation through repetition' are central to Faten's music. Harmony and counterpoint are composed intuitively and treated as narrative tools- with sound, silence, and the resulting mystical relationship between notes used as gestures to tell a...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Fire Records 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KANSkyway Man
Summary: A cinematic psych folk opera about someone who finds themselves incapable of coping with a new uncertain reality that followed a near death experience. Under a spell of mixed wisdom by several 'trickster guides' hailing from the future, this confused person leaps back into the world of the dead only to spend a hero's journey climbing out, returning to this strange existence of America in 2020.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK SKYWax Tailor
Summary: Five years after his last studio album, Wax Tailor is back with a darkly elegant 'sound feature' accompanied by a new and prestigious cast.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021