Kevin Press

  • The Acrylic Rib – As Far as November Nicolas Field – drums & percussion Albert Cirera – soprano & tenor saxophones Olie Brice – double bass Genre: Improvised jazz Label: Fundacja Słuchaj Recorded: Live on Nov. 9 and 11, 2021 at AMR Geneva Pulled from eight improvised sets, these two tracks are absolutely packed with…

  • Contemporary music from everywhere. Joy Guidry – Almost There 0.00  Issei Herr – Elegy (As Soft Night Marches In) 9.10  Organ Donor – Power Tools 12.00  Alvaro Domene – Shaken Out Of Lethargy 13.26  Tujiko Noriko – Afterimage 17.12  René Margraff – Avril I 31.41  High Season – Stratégies Obliques 42.11  Gianluca Iadema – ID[entità]…

  • Emilie Cecilia LeBel is a Canadian composer and music teacher who calls Edmonton home now. Redshift Records will release her debut solo album field studies on May 12. We talked about the new LP, teaching and why her home country gets under the skin of so many artists.

  • This week’s faves: Martin Daigle – Beat La Rage (Ravello Records) Dullmea – Lloc Comú (Independent) Gianluca Iadema – ID[entità] (Mille Plateaux) Eva Novoa – Novoa / Kamaguchi / Cleaver Trio – Vol. 1 (577 Records) Various Artists – Utopia Or Oblivion (Constructive) Plus one from the old days: Spirit Radio – A Light is Running Along the Ropes (Independent)

  • Richie Goods & Chien Chien Lu – Embrace the Now (Feat. Big Yuki) 0.00  The Heavy Hitters – Hub 5.23  Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets – 10,000 Ships 13.35  Kenny Barron – What If 22.53  Reiner Witzel / Richie Beirach Quintet – The World Within 30.46  Jesse Davis – Cup Bearers 40.13  Fernando Garcia…

  • The application of psychiatric diagnoses to historical figures is a tricky business. No matter how sincere one’s motivations, our ability to line up historical accounts with a modern-day understanding of mental illness is at least somewhat limited. In the case of Ludwig van Beethoven, suspicions of mental illness date back to Dr. Paul Radestock in…