MUSIC!!!
Recent Live Shows: Au Revoir Simone @ The Independent (LOVE/D THEM!); SF Symphony Thu. 2/7 (Metzmacher & Grimaud; Bartok Piano Concerto #3 & Shostakovich Sym. #6)
Current heavy rotation: Goldfrapp, Caribou, Brazilian Girls, Au Revoir Simone, Radiohead, PSB Disco 4, Rogue Wave, Honeycut, Persephone’s Bees, Simian Mobile Disco
Recent heavy rotation: CSS, Daniele Luppi, Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nouvelle Vague, The Gossip, Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn & John, Amy Winehouse, Rufus Wainwright…
Enduring interests: Saint Etienne, Pet Shop Boys, Stereolab, New Order, The Shins, Stars, Goldfrapp, Bjork, Air, Everything but the Girl, Kate Bush, Kylie, Heart, Ladytron, Joni Mitchell, French Pop (or Pop Francais, as we like to call it), Claudine Longet, Suede, Shirley Bassey, Free Design, Cocteau Twins, Jane Siberry, 90’s shoegazer music, Bacharach (especially Dionne & Dusty), Bossa Nova, Sergio Mendes, Herb Alpert, Carpenters, ABBA, good dance & electronica (I know — that’s very subjective), Belle & Sebastian, The Smiths, Aimee Mann, Bowie, 50’s & 60’s cheezy cocktail loungecore, 70’s Italian porn soundtracks, downtempo, ambient, Siouxsie, 80’s new wave one-hit wonders, electroclash, Sondheim, jazz standards, post-bop jazz that’s not too “skronk” but not “smooth” either, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, Hammond B3 organ, Vibes, Cal Tjader, trip hop, neo-folkie stuff, alt-country, Juice Newton, Dolly!, Emmylou, local Bay Area music scene…
Classical: My first true love. Faves include: Prokofiev, Shostakovich (yes, I like the Soviets), Stravinsky, Ravel, Brahms, Mahler, Holst (yes, I’m a fan of bombast), Corelli, Bach, Handel, etc…
