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forwards and backwards through bits of a [mostly] electronic music timeline. reverence for BCR. records i’ve played forever and new records i’ve just found. boil it down. one z in drizle.
Formed initially in 1962 by Winston Riley and a group of youth club friends, The Techniques were first recorded by club owner and future prime minister Edward Seaga. As ska slowed to rocksteady and morphed to reggae, and Jamaican music booned in popularity across the world towards the 1970s, Riley remained the one permanent member of The Techniques, honing his production craft and creating hits that would break the US and UK charts. He created music tirelessly, well into the 21st Century until his passing in 2012. Enjoy an hour of some of Jamaica's best music from a reggae polymath on this In Focus.
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ADRON is the eponymous debut of twenty year-old Adrienne McCann. Inspired by the vintage textures of Brazilian Tropicàlia, Adron plucks her nylon strings with the casual flourish of a maestro twice her age, and compliments the guitar with an array of quirky whistles and mouth-clicks. Her lyrics are precocious and whimsical. They speak to a double-awareness that eludes many songwriters; a sense of self-identity and astute observation that allows her to combine the earnest yearnings of a teenage American girl with the classic melodies and rhythms of another era. Her youthful exuberance and adroit musicianship are distinctive and soothing, and her ability to meld epochs and geography reveals a talent of surprising breadth and maturity. ADRON is a debut that promises a great musical journey to come.
Born in Chicago in 1987, Adron was classically trained on the piano from the age of four. At twelve she taught herself to play guitar by working out Beck songs, and her early influences include Connie Francis and the Beatles. That same year her family moved to Atlanta where she began writing her own material and playing publically. Two years later she was performing at the nationally renowned Eddie’s Attic, learning sitar, and preparing to graduate from high school. After a year at a women’s liberal arts college in southern California she began to pursue music full time, and in the spring of 2006, just months before her 20th birthday, she returned to Atlanta and recorded her debut album. She now resides in Brooklyn.
ADRON is the eponymous debut of twenty year-old Adrienne McCann. Inspired by the vintage textures of Brazilian Tropicàlia, Adron plucks her nylon strings with the casual flourish of a maestro twice her age, and compliments the guitar with an array of quirky whistles and mouth-clicks. Her lyrics are precocious and whimsical. They speak to a double-awareness that eludes many songwriters; a sense of self-identity and astute observation that allows her to combine the earnest yearnings of a teenage American girl with the classic melodies and rhythms of another era. Her youthful exuberance and adroit musicianship are distinctive and soothing, and her ability to meld epochs and geography reveals a talent of surprising breadth and maturity. ADRON is a debut that promises a great musical journey to come.
Born in Chicago in 1987, Adron was classically trained on the piano from the age of four. At twelve she taught herself to play guitar by working out Beck songs, and her early influences include Connie Francis and the Beatles. That same year her family moved to Atlanta where she began writing her own material and playing publically. Two years later she was performing at the nationally renowned Eddie’s Attic, learning sitar, and preparing to graduate from high school. After a year at a women’s liberal arts college in southern California she began to pursue music full time, and in the spring of 2006, just months before her 20th birthday, she returned to Atlanta and recorded her debut album. She now resides in Brooklyn.
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