Music nerd alert! I know I'm the music nerd amongst us, and occasionally I can't resist a music related post. Here's one that is about NYC while one of our Kites is still in the field in that city.
"From 1978 to 1984, Brian Eno lived and worked in NYC. As celebrated music journalist Simon Reynolds writes, the music he helped create there has influenced generations."
I loved reading this article, because it touches on almost everything in music that totally excited me as a young man. It just happens that musician/theorist Brian Eno was in NYC in the period covered, and Zelig like managed to be a part of many disparate cultural elements. While it's the music covered here that thrills me, I also thought the article throws a light on a past New York that you might find fascinating. No Wave music, the Mudd Club and CBGBs, Talking Heads, early video art, Eno's ambient music series, and Jon Hassell's Fourth World 1: Possible Musics LP, which to this day remains my absolute favourite record.
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/brian-eno-in-nyc-feature
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