Kevin Press
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Five new faves. Charlie Peacock – Blue For You (Independent) Bruno Sanfilippo – Nowhere (Independent) C.C. Sorensen – Twin Mirror (Full Spectrum Records) Franck Vigroux – Atotal (Aesthetical) Wóma – Drán & Ongaines (HIRU) And one from the archives: Judith Hamann – Shaking Studies / Music for Cello and Humming (Blank Forms)
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Writing in The New York Times in September of 1973, under the reductive heading “Pop,” famed music critic Robert Palmer drew a parallel between the great Cecil Taylor’s return to the stage after a five-year absence and novelist William Burroughs. Both utilized “reiterative motifs,” explained Palmer. In Taylor’s concert recording, we can hear these ideas…
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Contemporary music from around the world.
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Five new releases you need to know: Sarah Aristidou & Kaan Bulak – S’Agapo (Feral Note) Lhetargija – Raganas Mācekle (Pharmafabrik) Allen Moore, Ishmael Ali, Bill Harris – Hearsay (Amalgam) The Raz. Rabotka – Zvuki Urala (Faktura) Marie Wilhelmine Anders – She’s Leaving (Independent) Plus one, from The Moderns archive: 1921 – In My Veins…
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Favourite contemporary recordings of 2021.
The Moderns 