Kevin Press

  • The last four years have been productive ones for Japanese composer and pianist Akira Kosemura. During that relatively short period of time, he’s produced three full-length LPs (including the extraordinary In the Dark Woods) and a pair of soundtrack albums. The list of EPs and reworks projects he’s contributed to over the same period runs…

  • claire rousay could charm the pants off a 52-year-old father of two. The young trans woman is a long-time percussionist who has turned her attention to improvisational avant-garde music. She is an iconoclast in the making. Her thoughtful approach to the music, and much else, makes rousay one to watch. rousay and I talked about…

  • BENEDICT TAYLOR & ANTON MOBIN – Love Song 0.00 ASMUS TIETCHENS & DIRK SERRIES – Air Klarinette 1 5.00 DANIEL THOMPSON & COLIN WEBSTER – II 9.28 TONUS – Segment Tones 21.46 Jogging House – Hands 34.56 õjeRum – Anden Sjël 39.57 Vilhelm Bromander & Fredrik Rasten – Harmony for two or more voices II…

  • New York composer Michael Vincent Waller has delivered a third album to his quickly growing fanbase. Moments features R. Andrew Lee on piano and the celebrated William Winant on vibraphone. This weekend’s edition of The Moderns will feature excerpts from an interview Waller and I conducted last week. Here’s an edited version that includes material…

  • Ryuichi Sakamoto – Thousand Knives 0.00 Knives Out – Sugarcoat (Sasha Remix) 0.36 Squire – Find Me On Fire (Jonas Rathsman Remix) 4.56 dubspeeka – War Drum (Original Mix) 9.30 La Fleur – Hunting Grounds (Man Power Remix) 14.12 Truncate – The Bell 18.05 Paul Ritch – Nuit Blanche 23.21 Emika – Eternity (Pinch Remix)…

  • BirdWorld – Wicked Waste of Wax 0.00 Binary Canary – I 1.09 Joanna John / Burkhard Stangl – birds cannot enter the poem 2.08 Ian Wellman – Woodpeckers 5.06 Gray Acres – Rooted In Memory 5.53 Upperground Orchestra – Sinopia 9.16 Sound of the Mountain with Tetuzi Akiyama and Toshimaru Nakamura – amplified clarinet and…