Kevin Press

  • Tim Linghaus, Monika Deja and Annasara Lundgren are among the composers featured on the fourth release in Blue Spiral Records’ Uto’Pians series. The new collection of piano works launches Mar. 21. The new volume has been curated by Jordane Tumarinson. “I am amazed by nature … and I think it could be a good thing…

  • 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.

  • Contemporary music from everywhere. Wil Bolton – A Wave Of Verticals 0.00  Oberlin – Seapromenade in Morning Mood 5.29  Anne H. Goldberg-Baldwin – time leaves traces not etched in stone 13.01  Robert Scott Thompson – Night and Day 18.26  Henrik Meierkord, Pawel Kobak, Marco Lucchi & Rocco Saviano – Sunshine (Stilla Natt) 31.02  Koeun Grace…

  • 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…

  • This week’s favourites: Oberlin – Lake Constance Days (élan vital recordings) øjeRum – Vågnende Jeg Ser De Døde (Room40) The OO-Ray – Generate (Audiobulb Records) William Roper, Cassia Streb, Tim Feeney – Avenue 64 (Infrequent Seams) Brad Allen Williams – œconomy (Colorfield Records) And one from the archives: Adrian Corker – Music For Lock Grooves (SN Variations)

  • 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…