Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Compositores y músicos

October 1982: ABC, Culture Club, Shalamar and Survivor dominate the top twenty when the Pogues barrel out from the backstreets of King's Cross, a furious, pioneering mix of punk energy, traditional melodies and the powerfully poetic songwriting of Shane MacGowan.

Half-Cuban, half-Puerto Rican, Luis "DJ Disco Wiz" Cedeño is 100 percent Boogie Down Bronx. Born in the 60s, Wiz struggled in a turbulent and violent relationship with his alcoholic father while trying to protect his mother who was suffering from breast cancer. Raised in the 70s, Wiz learned the code of the streets while hustling with his crew, the East Side Boys.

An intimate portrait of Handel’s life and inner circle, modeled after one of the composer’s favorite forms: the fugue. During his lifetime, the sounds of Handel’s music reached from court to theater, echoed in cathedrals, and filled crowded taverns, but the man himself - known to most as the composer of Messiah - is a bit of a mystery. Though he took meticulous care of his musical manuscripts and even provided for their preservation on his death, very little of an intimate nature survives.

In a book that inspired the Amazon original series starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Malcolm McDowell, oboist Blair Tindall recounts her decades-long professional career as a classical musician, from the recitals and Broadway orchestra performances to the secret life of musicians who survive hand to mouth in the backbiting New York classical music scene, trading sexual favors for plum jobs and assignments in orchestras across the city.

No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, with more than a little hillbilly in his blood, Tom Petty was a Southern shit kicker, a kid without a whole lot of promise. Rock and roll made it otherwise.

On her journey to near stardom in the music business, Monica Madrid wound up a broke, demoralized alcoholic. Through the twists and turns of a colorful life, she rubbed elbows with Prince, Rick James, and other artists and was in a musical battle with Tupac Shakur. She came close to fulfilling her childhood dream, but once it was stripped from her grasp, her path led to money, prestige - and broken relationships. Monica's story is one of loss, love, and redemption.

Long before drag queens dominated the media, before gender-bending, before punk, even before Stonewall, there was Jayne County. From the 60s to the 90s she was the craziest, the most extreme queen ever to hit a rock 'n' roll stage. She's known and worked with Warhol, Bowie, and Derek Jarman, been an actress, a singer and a prostitute. She's the world's original rock 'n' roll trans star, crossing the genders in the full glare of publicity.

Je cours, paniqué. J’ai encore été piégé par ma mère. À moins d’un miracle, mon père va me tuer à soir. Le même style d’arnaque que d’habitude. J’ai beau courir, l’horizon s’éloigne et l’enfer approche à grandes claques, avec un verre de vin dans une main. Ma mère est en colère tout le temps. Contre le mauvais temps, contre les hommes en général, quoique "les hommes en général" ont l’air de ressembler beaucoup à son papa à elle et au mien... Elle est en colère contre beaucoup de choses, mais surtout contre moi.

Dalla penna di un amico, ma anche di un "addetto ai lavori", una biografia commossa e sincera, lontana dall'ufficialità come dall'apologia. Gli anni dell'infanzia con Fabrizio, "Bicio", sfollato in una cascina di Revignano d'Asti; lo zio Francesco reduce dal campo di concentramento, prototipo di tante figure dolenti che popoleranno le sue canzoni. L'adolescenza e la giovinezza a Genova, tra i primi tentativi musicali, la ribellione e la scoperta del sesso, l'alcol, la bohème cittadina.

Nel 1989, in provincia di Cuneo, nasceva una delle band più importanti della musica rock italiana: i Marlene Kuntz. Gloriosi, eleganti, poetici, potenti, refrattari a piegarsi ai dettami delle mode, della critica e dei fan, hanno attraversato trent'anni di carriera inseguendo sempre e soltanto la loro ispirazione e il desiderio di battere terreni inesplorati e mai scontati.

Mara e Alberto sono sposati dal 1976 e si dividono tra vita domestica, cellulari smarriti, la spesa al supermercato di sabato pomeriggio, gli impegni di lavoro, l'educazione delle figlie, la gioia dei nipotini, i rapporti con la suocera, il burraco con gli amici (o con l'iPad), gli acciacchi. Un po' come tutte le coppie rodate. Però Mara e Alberto non sono una coppia normale, checché ne dicano loro. Perché lei è la Mara Maionchi, discografica che ha lanciato talenti come Tiziano Ferro e Gianna Nannini, famosa per i suoi modi diretti e le sue esternazioni senza filtro.

Lucio Dalla è uno dei più grandi musicisti italiani di sempre. Riservatissimo nella sua vita privata, ha invece sempre dato tutto di sé nei concerti, nei dischi e nelle apparizioni pubbliche. Finalmente un audiolibro racconta la sua vita e le sue opere, grazie anche alle testimonianze di chi lo ha conosciuto. Una vita intensa e sempre vissuta controcorrente che lo ha portato a diventare un classico della nostra cultura nazionale.

Cosa è successo dal 2006 al 2016? Il rap italiano è sbarcato nel mainstream. Con Clementino, Fabri Fibra e Marracash il genere è uscito dai circuiti underground per approdare al grande pubblico. Dietro a questi artisti c'è il nome di una donna capace di interpretare le regole di un gioco fatto prevalentemente da uomini: Paola Zukar. In questo audiolibro si ripercorre l'esperienza personale di Paola alla guida della sua agenzia di produzione, la Big Picture Management, e il percorso umano e artistico che l'ha portata a trasformare la sua passione in una professione.

Che cosa può spingere un critico d'arte contemporanea a scrivere la biografia del "suo" mito che lo ha accompagnato dall'adolescenza all'età matura? Prima di tutto la Zerofollia, credo assoluto al di là delle mode e del tempo. Così Luca Beatrice ripercorre la storia del grande Renato dagli esordi, il primo singolo è del 1967, a oggi, leggendo con passione e rigore filologico la sua carriera e i suoi successi.

Composer John Cage sought the silence of a mind at peace with itself - and found it in Zen Buddhism, a spiritual path that changed both his music and his view of the universe. "Remarkably researched, exquisitely written", Where the Heart Beats weaves together "a great many threads of cultural history" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) to illuminate Cage’s struggle to accept himself and his relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham. Freed to be his own man, Cage originated exciting experiments that set him at the epicenter of a new avant-garde forming in the 1950s.

In less than a year, Neil Peart lost both his 19-year-old daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie. Faced with overwhelming sadness and isolated from the world in his home on the lake, Peart was left without direction. That lack of direction lead him on a 55,000 mile journey by motorcycle across much of North America, down through Mexico to Belize, and back again.

Steeped in sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, Lick Me takes the reader on a juicy journey through the life and times of the infamous Cherry Vanilla. A wunderkind on Madison Avenue in the swinging sixties, Cherry soon found fame as a DJ in clubs in Manhattan and on the French Riviera. She starred in Andy Warhol’s play Pork in London while gaining notoriety as a groupie, sleeping with musicians ranging from Leon Russell to Kris Kristofferson.

There is no doubt that Yolanda Saldívar pulled the trigger and killed Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Pérez on March 31, 1995. But does anyone know what really happened in room 158 of the Days Inn moments before the crime took place? María Celeste Arrarás has many answers, and her unrivaled coverage of the murder, trial, and aftermath made her the undisputed expert on the Selena case.

A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism offers a spirited introduction to the life and work of this legendary but underappreciated musician, composer, and poet. Paul Youngquist explores and assesses Sun Ra’s wide-ranging creative output - music, public preaching, graphic design, film and stage performance, and poetry - and connects his diverse undertakings to the culture and politics of his times, including the space race, the rise of technocracy, the civil rights movement, and even space-age bachelor-pad music.

In 1984, at the age of 20, Duff McKagan left his native Seattle - partly to pursue music, but mainly to get away from a host of heroin overdoses then-decimating his closest group of friends in the local punk scene. In LA only a few weeks and still living in his car, he answered a want ad for a bass player placed by someone who identified himself only as "Slash." Soon after, the most dangerous band in the world was born. Guns N' Roses went on to sell more than 100 million albums worldwide.