“The Island We Made,” Velour’s collaboration with the composer Angélica Negrón and the director Matthew Placek, is a meditation on motherhood.
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“That search for life is front and center in a new documentary film about the Webb telescope, “The Hunt for Planet B,” which was made by Nathaniel Kahn and will premiere at the South by Southwest Festival in March. The film, somewhat to Mr. Kahn’s surprise, also documents a sociological revolution in astronomy — namely, that many of the leaders in the field of exoplanets are women.”
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“The Puerto Rican native and Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist, 39, works with field recordings, found sounds, robots, vegetables and [insert anything here]. “Marejada,” a piece commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and composed specifically for video conferencing software, incorporates the imperfect synchronicity of Zoom into an escapist meditation on contemporary togetherness. “Estela” channels the electrical biorhythms of a humble houseplant to trigger chattering samples of pots and pans. There’s not a limit Negrón can’t limn into music. Premieres are in the works with the LA Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra.”
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The album is a handsome showcase for her songwriting, which has grown ever more confident over the last decade, nostalgic in tone but clear-eyed in the application.
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What Edmonson has done is capture the nuances of human coupling and decoupling, and all the moves in between, with melodic finesse, narrative precision and emotional articulateness…
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High praise for Kat Edmonson’s ‘Way Down Low’
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An Unconventional Crooner Finally Finds Her Place
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…11 self-penned songs of gentle romance and vulnerability in a decades-old style sparkling with modern sensibilities.
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She possesses a gift for composing alluring and engaging songs, all of which are highly evocative, each on its own.
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Though the album certainly straddles numerous stylistic divides, there is one category that fits without question—it is just “good music.”
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