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Today the music died
50 years ago today was the day the music died. On February 3, 1959, a small plane crashed in a corn field in Iowa, killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. The influence of these musicians on contemporary music is undeniable, especially Holly who was a role model for the Beatles
The Best Songs of the Year 2008
This is the time of the year when we present to you the La Suite 303’s Podcast about the best songs of the year, according to our personal taste and perception. Remeber that the tracks are listed alphabetically since we don’t believe in assigning numbers to them (Who’s to say which is the best overall
Happy 2009
Hi, first of all, I want to thank you for your support through 2008, and for continuing to read our reviews and listening to our Six Drummers in which creativity is the main factor
Touch the Sound
Recently I discovered an incredible documentary called: Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie, and one of the things that I’ve found so appealing about this film was the fact that Evelyn Glennie is deaf since her childhood, but she’s also a remarkable percussionist. Through this documentary you can come to understand her
Mexhibit A
On August 2006 we decided to make a meticulous research about the contemporary Mexican music scene to select some of the most interesting and remarkable tracks, the parameters were simple: at least one Mexican musician had to be directly involved in the project, at least one studio track should be recorded (but an album would
Spectrum
The basic idea for this podcast came from a series of questions: how would it be if a band plays one genre and the next one plays this same genre combined with another and so on? would the change of rhythms be seamless and fluid? To answer those questions we’ve just put the concept into
The Sage Gateshead
Recently I traveled for the first time to Newcastle and Gateshead and near the River Tyne, just in front of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, you can find The Sage Gateshead which is an impressive edifice and a center for performances, musical education and conferences, built by Sir Norman Foster and Mott MacDonald. It
Music For 30,000 Feet
The story behind this podcast began last year, when I was planning a flight to the city of Guadalajara, Mexico to witness one of the most important music events of my lifetime: Björk’s only performance in Mexico, the verminous organizers named that festival Sonofilia in which also played Ratatat, MSTRKRFT, Jay Jay Johanson and Claude
Exceptional throats
Since such a long time I was planning to write a post about one of the most enigmatic voices of Latin America: Ymac Sumac. She was born on the 13th of September, 1922, in Peru. Apparently she was a direct descendant of Atahualpa, the the last emperor of the Incas. In her prolific singing career
Outside the Box
Rock is the term used to describe an extra wide category of music that has always been defined by energetic moods and appealing hooks. The genre is old enough to name one of its numerous divisions as Classic Rock, this subgroup may be one of the most eroded kind of music in recent history. A
