Kevin Press

  • London duo Hanging Valleys is out with a new EP that is near breathtaking in its tenderness. Thom Byles and Michael Phillips describe their music as “ambient-indie,” which is both accurate and woefully insufficient as an expression of what they do. Byles and I connected by email last week. How did you meet, and what…

  • Tania Nwachukwu and Bump Kin – A Synonym For Light 0.00 Patrick Graham & John Sellekaers – Next of Kin (Leafy Suburbs Remix) 6.38 Machinefabriek – Stillness #7 (Antarctic Sound, Antarctica) 10.13 Chihei Hatakeyama – The Coast 18.54 Samuel Rohrer – The Bridge 25.24 Xalm Retribution – The New World 32.59 Prequel Tapes – Inner…

  • Bryan Chapman – Gaia 0.00 Moving Thoughts – Hydrogen 4.00 Kalipo & Local Suicide – Crocodile (Radial Gaze Remix) 7.45 Steve Bug – Loverboy (Acid Pauli Retouch) 12.00 Heidi Sabertooth – Ur Pushin It 14.30 Camea – Together (Acid Rave Version) 16.30 Sasha – Float Collapse Dub 21.55 Ejeca – Octiv Dub 24.40 Olivan –…

  • Johann Sebastian Bach published his Goldberg Variations in 1741, making it one of a small number of works to see the light of day while the great composer was still alive. Reportedly, the work was named for a student of Bach’s, Gottlieb Goldberg. It’s possible he was the first to perform the Variations. Goldberg was…

  • Eilis Frawley – strangers 0.00 John Chantler & Johannes Lund – Back of the House 4.09 Against All Logic   – Illusions of Shameless Abundance (feat. Lydia Lunch) 18.00 OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE – Jettatura 23.30 Emika – Dilo 21 31.18 Mirek Coutigny – Ripples 35.11 Anáhuac – Y_y 39.21 Philippe Petit – Return to Tomorrow… is this…

  • In the 1980s, I was lucky enough to study radio documentary production with Stuart McLean as part of my journalism training. Besides being one of Canada’s great storytellers, McLean regularly pushed the radio doc format in unexpected directions. (Terribly afraid of heights, he once recorded himself climbing up into the operator booth of a skyscraper…