Articles by Alan Ranta

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  Unknown Mortal Orchestra / Lower Dens

  Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver BC, January 28

  PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2016

  It seems as though psych troupe Unknown Mortal Orchestra keep playing bigger venues every time they make the trip up the coast to Vancouver...

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  HEALTH

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC, December 7

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2015

  Six years is an eternity in music when you consider that the Doors released six original, platinum-selling studio albums between 1967 and 1...

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  Tim Hecker

  The Annex, Vancouver BC, November 28

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2015

  Presented as part of a Vancouver New Music concert series, artistic director Giorgio Magnanensi brought Montreal's Tim Hecker out before hi...

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  Lubomyr Melnyk

  'Rivers and Streams' (album stream)

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2015

  Ukrainian composer and fastest pianist in the world, Lubomyr Melnyk is releasing a new album called Rivers and Streams. It will be made ava...

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  Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante

  "A Worn Out Life (With Cello)"

  PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2015

  Dakota Suite & Emanuele Errante first issued The North Green Down in early 2011 on the Lidar label, who pressed to a limited-edition CD tha...

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  Blitzen Trapper / Phoebe Bridgers

  Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver BC, November 20

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2015

  Both acts on this bill hail from the Western side of the United States, yet they honoured Vancouver in their own ways. This show marked the...

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  Bruce Brubaker

  Glass Piano

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2015

  Juilliard alum Bruce Brubaker has built a reputation as one of America's finest concert pianists, having premiered works by Meredith Monk,...

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  Rodriguez / Ben Rogers

  Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC, November 10

  PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2015

  It would be difficult for any music fan to not be aware of the Sixto Rodriguez story at this point. While Rodriguez always enjoyed a respec...