Tag: Kris Bowers

DESIGN: 2023 In Music

Jared Mobarak

Tracklisting:Disc 11. “Welcome to the DCC” • Nothing But Thieves • 3:18 • Dead Club City, Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited2. “Dummy” • Portugal. The Man • 2:25 • Chris Black Changed My Life, Atlantic Recording Corporation3. “Trouble Maker” • Rema • 2:36 • RAVAGE EP, Mavin Global Holdings Ltd / Jonzing World Entertainment4. “Light as a Feather” • ††† (Crosses) • 3:10 • Foodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete., under exclusive license to Warner Records Inc.5. “Not Strong Enough” • boygenius • 3:55 • the record, under exclusive…

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REVIEW: A Concerto Is a Conversation [2021]

Jared Mobarak

It goes back to slavery. As composer Kris Bowers elaborates upon the title of his and Ben Proudfoot‘s short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation, we the viewers begin to understand he’s talking about this film as much as he is the piece that’s about to debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. He’s explaining to his grandfather Horace Bowers Sr. that a concerto is a work pitting a soloist against an ensemble. They speak to each other through the music either with alternating passages or in…

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