Kevin Press
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This week’s faves: Plus one from the archives:
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Spanish ambient experimental composer Pepo Galán and Australian vocalist/musician Karen Vogt are premiering a pair of Akira Rabelais remixes today with a video for “Panacea I.” The Moderns is first to present this. The pair are perfectly suited for one another. Their last collaboration, The Sweet Wait landed a year ago.
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Contemporary music from everywhere. This week’s show features new music by Hiroshi Ebina, along with Porya Hatami & Monologue. And I have an interview with Marco Alessi of Naviar Records. Sponsor: BetterHelp.com/MODERNS for 10% off your first month of therapy
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The Warsaw-based Mondoj label is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a pair of remastered vinyl releases. Adam Badí Donoval has remastered Antonina Nowacka’s haunting seven-part debut Lamunan, which premiered in 2020. Mondoj has added her Sketches From Oaxaca on cassette. That release originally appeared on Cafe Oto’s Takuroku label. Donoval has also remastered the more…
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Touch marked what would have been Philip Jeck’s 70th birthday last week with the release of two new live recordings. Jeck passed this past winter after a brief illness. Under the title Resistenza, we get a live performance in Torino and another at Liverpool Philharmonic.
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Canadian composer and violinist Alexandra Stréliski has signed with XXIM Records/Sony Masterworks. In a media release, the company described her as “a trailblazing woman in the modern classical world,” and said that her “emotionally striking music has enthralled listeners the world over.” We first wrote about the Montrealer in 2018, after the release of her…
