Author: Kevin Press
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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp to Close Music Gallery Season
Switzerland’s 14-person Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp will headline the final instalment of The Music Gallery’s 2021-22 season on June 26. Montreal oud performer Sam Shalabi is opening the evening. The group’s veneration of Duchamp combines “free jazz, minimalist krautrock, symphonic mixtures, post punk within the big band format,” according to a press release. Shalabi […]
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Friday Five: Jun. 17, 2022
This week’s favourites: Bienoise – This Meaning Today (Mille Plateaux) Loris Cericola – Metaphysical Graffiti (Artetetra) Otto Lindholm – FortyTwo (Totalism) Andrew Tasselmyer – Songs For Nonexistent Films (Somewherecold Records) WeFreeStrings – Love in the Form of Sacred Outrage (ESP Disk) Plus one from the archives: Goldmund – Occasus (Western Vinyl)
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Bandcamp Hosting Juneteenth Fundraiser on Friday
Online retailer Bandcamp, purchased earlier this year by Epic Games, has announced its third annual Juneteenth fundraiser. Its share of sales earned on Jun. 17 will go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. “This annual fundraiser is part of our larger, ongoing commitment to racial equity, and we’ll continue to promote diversity and opportunity through our […]
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Sound Art Mixtape 20
Steph Kretowicz – I hate it here 0.00 Jerman/Barnes – 40 Pictures Of Frozen Lakes 41.52 David Watson and Matthew Welch – Weave 55.36 Natasha Barrett – Speaking Spaces No.1: Heterotopia 1.06.15
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Kate Bush is a Pop Star (Again)
By adding Kate Bush’s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” to the fourth season of Netflix’s Stranger Things, the show’s producers have introduced the British avant-pop legend to a new generation of admirers. “How utterly brilliant,” writes Bush on her website. “It’s hard to take in the speed at which this has all been happening […]
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Must See: Solace In Structure
Max Cooper and Donato Sansone have produced a new video for the “Solace In Structure” track, from Cooper’s latest Unspoken Words. “I was trying to express feelings and ideas outside of language,” writes Cooper in an email. “This chapter uses many layers of sounds, constrained to a precise rhythmic grid.” Sansone collaborated with Marco Holland […]
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The Moderns ep. 214
Contemporary music from around the world. Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker – Dondina 0.00 Baldrian Quartett – Ich habe genug 6.58 O – III 17.17 Konni Behrendt – KurzLang 22.28 Cassiopeia Sturm & Patrick Shiroishi – The Neck 32.30 Silt – Gravity’s End 41.49 Morten Riis – skrøbelighedens 57.12 Joel St. Julien – everythingischangingallthetime 59.35 […]
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New York Guitar Festival Opens Jun. 14
Bill Frisell, Vieux Farka Touré and Laraaji are among the headliners at the New York Guitar Festival’s first post-pandemic in-person festival. The event runs Jun. 14-17 at The Greene Space, a multimedia venue in Soho run by radio station WNYC. Here’s the four-night schedule: Jun. 14: Glenn Jones, Vieux Farka Touré Jun. 15: Fyan Riley, […]
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Friday Five: Jun. 10, 2022
This week’s favourites: Sally Decker & Briana Marela – Small Tremble in Slow Motion (Surface World) Joel St. Julien – Masking (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) Flavia Massimo – Glitch (Audiobulb) Nobuka – Miniatüre (Difficult Art And Music) Gabriel Prokofiev – HOWL! (Oscillations) And from the archives: Robert Lippok, Kaan Bulak – Kubus (Feral Note)
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Sound Art Mixtape 19
Diana Combo – Mosso, Poco Mosso, Quasi Calmo 0.00 Hostile Surgery – Tainted Visions 13.48 Lijnenspel – 10 minutes 48.04 Tunnels Of Āh – Iron Law 53.00 Michael Gendreau & Francisco Meirino – 13’36 1.00.36 Christopher Otto – rag’sma q1_q2 1.11.05
The Moderns 