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Jan 21 - Los Angeles
at the Echo with Wounded Lion -
February 9 - London
Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
you can get tickets here:
www.livenation.co.uk
or call 0207 403 3331 (if you live in England) -
February 11 - London
The Lexington
Tickets here:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/67987
or call - 01865 798792
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12/24/09 - We will be playing on the radio station KCRW on the Morning Becomes Eclectic Show on January 15th. For those of you in Southern California, it can be heard at 89.9 on your FM dial. For those elsewhere, you can hear it at kcrw.org.
12/23/09 - Some shows are definitely happening in a little while. On Jan 21st in L.A. at the Echo, and on Feb 9 & 11 in London. See you there, friends.
12/21/09 - We are pleased to announce that our music has reached the clubs of Singapore. Fantastic!
- I have been asked to say a few words about the compendium
of Music Go Music's appearances on the Face Time program contained on
this web page, and nothing could make me happier!
Looking back on these performances fills me with a joy that few other aspects of my career in music can. Face Time was our entree into the rough and tumble world of East L.A. show business, and in retrospect, was where we truly "made our mark."
Growing up in the greater Los Angeles area, we came of age in a time when tuesday mornings at 11:40 would see every family in the neighborhood gathered around the television, tuning in to channel 56 for the latest installment of Face Time. At that time, Rob Fosse was THE tastemaker on the L.A. scene. His reputation for unearthing hidden gems was matched only by his impatience with mediocrity. It was well known that a kind word from Rob could start a career, and a harsh one could shatter dreams and lives.
Music Go Music was one of the fortunate groups to have caught Rob's eye early on, and have appeared on Face Time three times over the course of the show's run, our final appearance coming only weeks before the chain of events that led to Rob's ignominious fall from grace.
Enjoy these performances. They are snapshots of a band operating at the height of their power, and of an impresario at the height of his prowess. When Rob was incarcerated, Los Angeles lost its elder statesman, a curator of the first degree, and a showman without equal. Here's to you, Rob Fosse. We'll be waiting for you on the outside.
- K.M.
Love Violent Love (Live on Face Time) - 1,000 Crazy Nights
(Live on Face Time)
Just Me (Live on Face Time) - Warm in the Shadows (Live on Face Time)
- I Walk Alone (Live on Face Time)
- Light of Love (Live on Face Time)
- Reach Out (Live on Face Time)
- Goodbye, Everybody (Live on
Face Time)
Explorers of the Heart (Live on Face Time)
- The members of 'Music Go Music' met at a party in the home of a man who was, at that time, called "The Condor."[1] Over the rager's din we made a connection. It was mild at first, but fermented for a couple of weeks until Torg invited me and Gala Bell over to make a song together. We met several days later and, in the space of an hour, the first Music Go Music song was written. We recorded it over the next few days and went our separate ways, but reconvened enough times over the course of the following year-and-a-half to record eight more songs.
- Initially, I thought that we'd play these recordings for our nearest and dearest and then lay them aside, but circumstances conspired against these plans, and now they're working their way out into the world. Though unexpected, this is a welcome turn of events. No happier thought passes through our minds than that of a bevy of middle-aged women dancing to our music,[2] and now it seems like our vision may be within reach.
- Something must be said here about the music itself.[3] Music Go Music make pop music but, fortunately, the term means very little these days. What kind of pop music is it? Rock and Roll, Disco, Metal, Boogie, Trans-Hand, Psychedelic? How does it work? Perhaps this will mean something:
- As we move through life, there is a "curtain of fantasy"[4] with which we cover a murky reality, a curtain on which we project a clear and comforting image of ourselves and the world. The slightest shifting of it fills us with dread. But imagine that the curtain is raised to reveal a more profoundly resonant version of what was on it in the first place a "Technicolor" reality. So enchanted are we by this scene that we fail to notice the second, dark curtain in the background.[5]
- Music Go Music's immediate plans are to continue to make music that's visual and funks. Hopefully we will meet you where you live.[6]
- K Maza, Summer 2009
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[1] What happened to this man? He disappeared from us, like some wayward angel
[2] This may change
[3] This kind of thing must be talked about in abstract terms - why describe music that can be so easily listened to? Just go to a site and listen. There is no reason for me to waste your time banging on cauldrons, when an mp3 can bring the stars to pity...YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
[4] Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (New York: Norton, 1957), pp. 156-157
[5] Even if we do catch a glimpse of its folds, we are too fixed on the foreground to give them much thought
[6] You know what I mean




