Here’s a shot by Samantha Gore from Dickie Landry SOLO at the Guggenheim this past March.
Lubomyr Melnyk featured on BBC
Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 4:47 pm | Blog
Lubomyr Melnyk is featured in a short BBC segment, captured shortly before his UK premiere performance at Cafe Oto.
Pick up Lubomyr’s debut album KMH with us here.
Other recordings are available at continuouspiano.com.
Detours Press
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 at 11:34 pm | Blog
What’s being said…
Ben Ratliff for The New York Times:
“It’s been eight years since an album of his new work, and about half of “Detours,” his new album on Unseen Worlds, is prime stuff, including two major solo-piano pieces: ’13 Detours’and ‘George Fox Searches.’ He does not stint on beautiful things — major arpeggios, soul-chord progressions, lines that flow and breathe — and his keyboard touch is rounded and gorgeous, a feeling you remember.”
Adam Strohm for Dusted:
“All week, ‘George Fox Searches‘ has had me humming a Baptist hymn, replete with Tyranny’s improvisatory embellishments. As recently as 2010 his former bandmate Iggy Pop was still stage diving into his early 60s, and the same time, “Blue” Gene Tyranny was taking his own leaps into the unknown, albeit with far less chance of bodily harm. Fifty years after a San Antonio teen skipped out on Julliard, a veteran continues to thumb his nose at convention, still seeking, still striving.”
Other Music (NYC):
“New release from polymath composer “Blue” Gene Tyranny, last heard round these parts a couple years ago with Unseen World’s reissue of his seminal 1977 avant-pop album, Out of the Blue. Detours, also issued by Unseen Worlds, showcases his lovely work for solo piano, with four mostly lyrical, vaguely minimalistic pieces that occasionally belie his sly sense of humor.”
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Massiomo Ricci for Touching Extremes:
“Detours might very well be one of his best oeuvres”
(link)
What more should be said…
VIDEO: She Wore Red Shoes – “Blue” Gene Tyranny
Friday, January 6th, 2012 at 3:32 pm | Blog, Releases
Next week “Blue” Gene Tyranny’s Detours will be released in online and local record shops. Until then, here’s a video of Blue performing “She Wore Red Shoes” from the album, at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland… (This is part of a larger video series directed by K.O. Beckman casting Blue as a janitor engaged in different musical situations. Here we find him sneaking onto the piano after hours.)
