Kevin Press
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This collection landed in my inbox on the busiest email day of the year so far. While it’s true that I enjoy my email a great deal more than most, this particular day was genuinely overwhelming. Scanning the titles that came in, this compilation of young Lithuanian composers living and working abroad felt more arcane…
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The notes that accompany Laurian Bardoș’ extraordinary new release Current report that the work is influenced by psychology. “From this perspective the evolution of his music has been greatly influenced by the study of perception and the Gestalt theory, which connects the spatial (geometric) form with the temporal form (sound).” Gestaltism comes from the Berlin…
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Glåsbird – Tundra 0.15 Syntax – Current 7.19 Mount Shrine – Empty Slopes 12.43 Sarah-Jane Summers – Lypophrenia 22.48 Benjamin Finger/James Plotkin/Mia Zabelka – Hostile 27.07 Ryosuke Miyata – Kayak 47.05 Ralph Alessi – Melee 55.27 Matthew Shipp Trio – Zo 2 1.05.39 King Midas Sound – The Lonely 1.11.27 Jordan Pettay – I Surrender…
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What do we mean when we describe something as a major work? Is it a comparison with other releases in the same genre, or is it a more singular evaluation? Is it simply a measure of the release’s inherent value? By either measure, Christian Winther Christensen’s Almost in G is a considerable accomplishment. There is…
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Peabody & Sherman – And That Is Why (Wajeed’s Detroit Disco Deconstruction) 0.00 Kindimmer – The Subject 5.30 James Dexter – Area 51 8.48 Matador & ARTBAT – Apollo 11 15.00 I Remember Yesterday – Boboriga N Lobema 19.00 Gordo – Yur Luv 21.58 Max Cooper feat Get People – Carless (Locked Groove Remix) 27.05…
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Purl & Yamaoka – Sculpture (long winter version) 0.06 Luna Monk – A walk to the sky 7.31 Tim Linghaus – Snow At Franz-Mehring-Platz 13.47 Erik Friedlander – Artemisia 17.56 Ô Lake – Conversation 24.08 Strange Mountain II – Careful Not to Fall 26.30 Yamila – Antrik 29.48 Ulrich Troyer – Dolomite Dub (Part I)…
