We first listened to Susie Ibarra's solo drum release, "Dream Sketches". On her solo release, Ibarra here played on drumset, kulintang, sarunay, and percussion.
To do this, we first listened to a few of our classmates' interview, taking key and interesting sections of each clip.
This was the house where much of my musical education took place: the bedroom where we first listened to Silverfish and Bauhaus and Pixies, the nights spent dancing in the living room to Pulp and Prince and Al Green.
I was not a very successful child". Sitting in his basement studio, overlooking a wooded slope, we first listened to Basie's "9 20 Special," from 1941, and Mr. Brookmeyer immediately focused on the structure of the piece, particularly the ensemble work.
We've been excited for Arca's second album since...well, since we first listened to his first album to be honest.
With this in mind, we were in exactly the right frame of mind when we first listened to FineArt's "Don't Wanna Rush".
Apple's album offers us that feeling by offering us a return to her previous albums, and to the selves we were when we first listened to them.
Yes, that's the kicker — we can't go blindly parroting ideas of "happy-happy-joy-joy," we must first listen to our bodies on a deeper level and get in touch with the emotion and energy that flows through us.
We must first listen and then speak with humility to genuinely hear the perspectives of those with whom we don't immediately or instinctively agree.
To find our inner strength, we must first listen to our inner voice.
