Kevin Press
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Rotterdam’s Hydra Ensemble is back with an inspired follow-up to the quartet’s debut Voltas. Featuring double bassist Gonçalo Almeida, cellists Nina Hitz and Lucija Gregov and Rutger Zuydervelt on electronics, Vistas is among the most refined new classical works of the year to date. Put an asterisk beside that new classical reference. Zuydervelt’s contributions will…
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A music-and-text recording of Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 article “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” will be available on vinyl for the first time, thanks to Shimmy-Disc. Actor Tim Robbins and jazz-great Bill Frisell are among the artists featured. The celebrated piece is considered the first example of Thompson’s gonzo journalism. It ran in…
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry has won the 2021 Berlin Prize for New Artists. Their latest is Radical Acceptance, released this past February by Whited Sepulchre Records. “One of the reasons that we created the Berlin Prize for Young Artists was to award musicians with singular voice and vision,” writes the jury. “[Guidry] redefined the…
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This week’s favourites: Matt Shoemaker – Brengenging Sala (Elevator Bath) Alexandra Spence – Blue waves, Green waves (Room40) Stereo Minus One – Lodestone (Machine Records) Various Artists – The Asocial Telepathic Ensemble (Corvo Records) Angelina Yershova, Ynaktera – Time For Change (Twin Paradox Records) Plus one: Remembering Matt Shoemaker
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Sally Decker and Briana Marela have produced a wonderful new disc entitled Small Tremble In Slow Motion. Its focus – according to the two artists – is grief and its impact on us, physically and emotionally.
The Moderns 