Kevin Press
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Pianist and composer Simeon Walker is out next month with Imprints 2, a four-track EP that he plans to tour this year. This video for “Paean” was reportedly shot in one take on Saddleworth Moor in north-west England. Tour dates are at simeonwalker.co.uk.
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Unsound is running a series of interviews and panel discussions recorded last October at the 20th edition of its Kraków 2022 discourse program. The videos are up on Unsound’s YouTube and Facebook channels. There are three online currently: Westplaining, on the West’s failure to understand the war in Ukraine; Building Bridges Between Bubbles, exploring the…
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This week’s favourites: And one from the archives:
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We may already have heard the best album of 2023. Iceland-born Bára Gísladóttir is a composer and double bassist who calls Copenhagen home now. She produces solo works, and collaborates with Skúli Sverrisson and the Elja Ensemble. Gísladóttir also performs with the Copenhagen Philharmonic and other orchestras. SILVA is a 57-plus-minute force of nature. A…
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Esc.rec. has introduced its Pick & Mix series. DJs have been invited to put together a set of favourites from the label, which will be made available on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download. “The downside of having a large label catalogue is that older releases tend to disappear from the public eye,” writes the label’s…
The Moderns 