I was so entranced the first time I listened to
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s 41-minute song cycle
12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann that I was surprised when it ended. The album was seemingly over just moments after it began. It’s my understanding that it’s the first full-length recording of Jóhannsson compositions by a string quartet. Each of the instrumental selections played by the Echo Collective is the length of a pop song. Several are just as catchy- and as heartbreaking- as ballads written by Paul McCartney and Smokey Robinson. Jóhannsson was at his artistic peak when he died last year at 48. I’m not prone to extended periods of mourning, but I may never stop selfishly grieving the forestallment of the new music that would have enhanced the remainder of my life.
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I
reviewed an extremely loud concert by the Jonas Brothers and Bebe Rexha at the Sprint Center for
The Kansas City Star.
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I write
weekly concert recommendations for
The Kansas City Star.
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I wrap up my three-part examination of the Chicago Jazz Festival with a litany of
fussy grievances at Plastic Sax.
(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)
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