Blogcritics Author: Eric Gagne

Dispatches From The Glass Museum: Brotzmann and Bennink in Amherst, Massachusetts

Eric Gagne — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:08:43 EDT

How free is a lion when it smells blood on the air?
So. Let me tell you. I’ve been flat out lately, which is why this is first thing I’ve written in awhile. As I mentioned previously, I’m organizing a crazy weekend of music and art in downtown Peterborough, New Hampshire called The Thing In The Spring. This involves a shit-ton of screenprinting, and not much time for sleep. I...

Daze on the Mounts and Other Realms of Discovery

Eric Gagne — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:27:46 EDT

So, perhaps �noise� is a misleading term.
There’s a wonderful time during a clear morning, right before the sun comes up, that the sky is a twisting, fading rainbow; all the shades of dawn cradling the treetops and weaving the stillness into soundwaves. If you quiet your mind and close your eyes, it is possible to hear these little tapestries rolling over each other like whales in...

Dispatches From The Glass Museum: The Sharrocks, The Raincoats, and The Flaherty

Eric Gagne — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:39:09 EDT

Paul is a conduit, and he has the cosmos inside of his horn.
Ugh. The sophomore slump. I’ve been trying to figure out what the heck to write about for a few days now. I’ve even put together one piece about Pat Metheny and my general loathing for liquidy, noodley guitar. So there’s a summary right there (and I will still tell Mark I’m sorry). Give me Sonny Sharrock any day of the...

Music Review: John Coltrane - Afro Blue Impressions

Eric Gagne — Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:09:53 EST

Afro Blue Impressions is a portal.
John Coltrane was a monument to life, and continues to be as his presence thunders and moans through speakers all over the earth. This is something that I am thinking simultaneously with everything else whipping around in my brain at all times. So, without going into more qualifying details, I’ll just tell you that I bought, without pause,...