Kevin Press
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The press that accompanied the 2007 release of Yui Onodera’s astonishing Suisei, for field recordings and pipe organ noted three translations of its title: aquatic, a comet and the planet Mercury. There is a fourth possible reference point. Onodera confirmed for me that there is no connection to his recording, but Japan’s Institute of Space…
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Peter Wood is a professor of theatre at the University of Mississippi. He earned his doctorate in theatre history and performance studies a bit further north, at the University of Pittsburgh. Besides teaching, Wood remains active in the field – he directs and composes sound design works for theatre productions. He also records ambient music…
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Contemporary music from around the world. The Tape Recorders – Equidistant 0.00 Mesías Maiguashca – Ayayayayay 4.11 Menhir – Osiris 19.15 Ivano Pecorini – I Have Never Realized It Was You 23.29 Frédéric D. Oberland – Ravages 1.02.48 The Allegorist – Unlimited Dedication (Headless Horseman Rework) 1.09.25 TrillaVelt – Infierno 1.14.49 pleasure – Sublimation 1.16.51 …
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Five new releases you need to know: kj – saturnalia (Polar Seas Recordings) Mesías Maiguashca – Música para cinta magnética (+) instrumentos (1967-1989) (Buh Records) Frédéric D. Oberland – Même Soleil (IIKKI) Yui Onodera – Suisei (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) Paper Relics – Emersion (Whitelabrecs) Plus one, from The Moderns archive: Masahiro Sugaya – Horizon Vol.…
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Italian poet and vocalist Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi has partnered with Michael Schaffer, a fellow-poet, painter and musician, on a new disc based in part on The Tibetan Book of the Dead. She and I talked about the origins of the project, spirituality and economics. The notes that accompany the new album stress an emphasis on both…
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Contemporary music from around the world. Pêtr Aleksänder – Fireworks in G 0.00 Damiana – Melted Reach 4.37 Koeosaeme – 2720217-06 12.35 Spacelab – Divinorum 15.51 Julian Sartorius – Locked Groove 014 18.28 Iannis Xenakis – Les polytopes I – Mycenae Alpha (1978) 19.29 Soloi Sounds – Translation 31.19 Asemix – Phantom Lung 36.11 The…
