Kevin Press

  • Like a lot of avant-garde music lovers, my interest in its various forms evolved from a boredom with conventional rock and roll. In the early 1990s, I was hosting a community radio program and writing for a couple of publications. It meant that most weeks included at least one interview with a local or touring…

  • We are told that Ingar Zach’s latest is significant for two reasons. After exploring a variety of percussion instruments and developing a unique personal style, Floating Layer Cake is described in its notes as the “culmination of his percussion practice.” The album also marks a new beginning. For the first time, the 47-year-old Norwegian has…

  • Out Of Sorts – Worzel Gummidge 0.00 Franz Matthews & Local Suicide – Meditation (Instrumental Mix) 6.17 Local Suicide & Curses – Secret Friends 8.41 Julian Rosh – Black Circus 12.50 Polkolor – Venus 18.40 Robert Hood – Rotate 22.22 DC Salas – 10401800 (Fort Romeau Remix.) 27.20 Michael Klein  – Dirty Daddy (Markus Suckut…

  • The man who said: “Music is too important to burden it with emotions,” celebrates his 85th birthday with a concert and record-release celebration this evening in Berlin. Ernstalbrecht Stiebler – born Mar. 29, 1934 to be precise – will be among the performers. Stiebler’s latest features four works, all of them in keeping with his…

  • Belgian guitarist/composer Jean D.L. has produced a follow-up to his well-received 2014 collection Early Nights. Like its predecessor, part two pulls together material produced over multiple years, in this case between 2011 and this year. We get solo pieces and collaborations with Sandrine Verstraete, Margaret Hermant and Rodrigo Fuentealba Palavicino. Often described as an ambient…

  • Gianluca Piacenza – Light Parts 1-4 0.00 Alexandra Spence – Waking She Heard The Fluttering 11.06 Synaesthesis – From another Point of View 26.01 Hans Castrup – Secret Of Fragmented Control 34.37 Qais Essar – Megam Ke Doostet Daram 40.22 Snowdrops – The Harmony of the Rohingya’s Voices / Circles 41.38 LI YILEI – 5.28…