Kevin Press
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Difficult Art and Music is preparing a 51-track compilation in three volumes, to be released in October, November and December. bivouac of the avant-garde: contemporary minimal, electronic and experimental music runs four and a half hours in total. The collection features James A. McDermid, Karen Vogt, Veins Full of Static, Audio Obscura, Robert Scott Thompson,…
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Avant-garde legend Pharoah Sanders has passed in Los Angeles, according to his record label Luaka Bop. He was 81. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1940, Sanders given name was Farrell. It was Sun Ra that gave him the nickname Pharoah, when the two began working together in the 1960s. Sanders joined John Coltrane’s band…
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Super Fuji Discs and Idol Records have released Yoko Ono & Plastic Ono Super Band’s 1974 One Stop Festival performance, nearly 50 years after it was recorded. This is the first time Let’s Have a Dream has been available commercially. One Stop has been referred to as Japan’s “first major rock festival.” The event was…
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Five new faves: Plus one from the archives:
The Moderns 