Owen Pallett: Song for Five & Six This week Montreal-based musician Owen Pallett released “Song for Five & Six” from In Conflict, his fourth full-length studio album (which features Brian Eno) out 13 May on Domino Records. The accomplished violinist and Oscar-nominated composer (for Best Original Soundtrack for Spike Jonze’s “Her”) has amplified the song’s beautiful whirl of sound with a complementary performance dance piece …
This week Montreal-based musician Owen Pallett released “Song for Five & Six” from In Conflict, his fourth full-length studio album (which features Brian Eno) out 13 May on Domino Records. The accomplished violinist and Oscar-nominated composer (for Best Original Soundtrack for Spike Jonze’s “Her”) has amplified the song’s beautiful whirl of sound with a complementary performance dance piece choreographed by Robert Binet of the National …
The world celebrated Earth Day this week and, to mark the environmentally minded holiday, we put on Marvin Gaye’s “Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology),” a chart-topper from his 1971 album What’s Going On. The heartfelt single—released just a year after the first-ever Earth Day in the US—channels the concern shared by the peace activists of that generation. Over 40 years later, we are still arguing …
