Kevin Press
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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)…
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David Koch dropped a pair of new DeWalta releases yesterday, one of which premiers a new offshoot of his Meander label called Horizon Pi. Lyra is a six-track double-LP that runs 56 minutes. That’s accompanied by a five-piece ambient disc called Lyra π. Koch’s work offers a level of sophistication too seldom found in house…
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Original Past Life – Weave Dreamer 0.05 CITIZEN ELECTRICAL – 10:19 10.40 Volor Flex – The Wind in the Trees 21.46 Kirill Mazhai – Haven (Before and After the Storm) 25.22 BELP – Hang On 33.51 SMOGMA – Free Smog 37.04 Bloor – Splice (for Arthur Blythe) 53.53 Dezron Douglas – Alexis 58.09 Ivan Conti…
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Described as “a meditation on the transitory and fragile nature of existence,” this new disc from cellist Julia Kent is wall-to-wall luxury. Her playing has been described enthusiastically since her 2007 solo debut. Her fifth long-player Temporal delivers more of her patented mix of advanced classical technique and avant-garde spirit. These seven new works include…
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Andrea Porcu’s latest is an engaging hour-long ambient piece that combines a variety of water recordings with deeply resonant drones. The album’s notes describe experiments with “the dilatation of sound,” a phrase I hadn’t heard before. (It has to do with the way sound waves pass through the air.) Porcu and I connected by email.…
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Writing in Psychology Today, David M. Greenberg Ph.D. describes research conducted at the University of Cambridge, by his team, on music taste and so-called brain types. Greenberg categorized people into three types: empathizers (those who care about others), systemizers (those interested in patterns and rules) and balanced (those with a mix of both). “Our studies…
