Krishan Oberoi leads the Analog Chorale. Lately, I’ve found that my hermetically sealed bubble-world of classical music has been colliding with other musical worlds that exist well beyond the borders of my knowledge – and often with fascinating results.
If you asked me three days ago who Justin Vernon was, or if I’d ever heard of a band called band Bon Iver, or their album 22, A Million, I’d have come up blank on all three questions. But I now know that Vernon is a singer-songwriter from Wisconsin, whose music simultaneously draws on folk, indie, electronica and hip-hop genres, among others. Bon Iver, one of several bands he fronts, released 22, A Million in 2016.
If you asked me three days ago who Justin Vernon was, or if I’d ever heard of a band called band Bon Iver, or their album 22, A Million, I’d have come up blank on all three questions. But I now know that Vernon is a singer-songwriter from Wisconsin, whose music simultaneously draws on folk, indie, electronica and hip-hop genres, among others. Bon Iver, one of several bands he fronts, released 22, A Million in 2016.
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