Kevin Press
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Italy’s Lo.Sai has posted a live performance video of “Secreto,” from the pianist’s Mompou: an Intimate Impression LP. Giacomo Favilla shot the clip at Pasquini Castle in Livorno, built in 1889. The Mompou referenced in the album’s title is Fredric Mompou, a Spanish painter, photographer, composer and pianist.
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Richard Evans is author of Listening to the Music the Machines Make: Inventing Electronic Pop 1978—1983, a wonderfully detailed account of the impact that affordable synthesizer technology had on pop music some 40 years ago. Richard and I talked about what has been described as the definitive account of the period.
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Top of the pops: Plus one from the archives:
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Alva Noto, William Basinski and Martin Gore have produced an adaptation of David Bowie’s “Subterraneans” to mark the seventh anniversary of the great artist’s passing. This video features a loop from Wim Wenders’ Der Himmel Uber Berlin.
The Moderns 