Kevin Press

  • The Moderns ep. 38

    Christian Li and Mike Bono – Awake 0.23 RAIC – Leaves Continue to Fall 8.31 Kasper Skullerud Værnes & Andreas Wildhagen – Skysoveren 12.10 Julia Kent – Through The Window 20.48 Tomas Nordmark – Giving 26.02 Ellen Fullman & Okkyung Lee – The Air Around Her Part II 30.28 Jo David Meyer Lysne – Henger…

  • Andreas Usenbenz & Christoph Lammers – Drawing in Sound

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    This piece’s title is intended to be taken literally. Andreas Usenbenz produced a soundscape incorporating objects, lo-fi and contact microphones, field recordings, guitar, ebow, looper, iPad, dictaphone, cassettes, tape loops, an OP-1 synthesizer and field kit, according to the album’s notes. Artist and Curator Andreas Pytlik responded to Usenbenz’s work – and vice versa –…

  • BADD PRESS Mix 22

    DeWalta – Lyra 0.00 Hannah Holland – Mutualism (Joyce Muniz Remix) 2.40 Locked Groove – Do Not Freak 7.11 Martin Buttrich – Northeast 10.42 One Track Brain & Ceili – Eternal Youth 15.33 Pavel Iudin – Halo 19.07 Mennie & Julien Sandre – Partitions 22.14 Kindimmer – Quite Beachy 24.38 Scalameriya – Enhance… Stop! 30.12…

  • Original Past Life – Inference/ Interference

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    Perth’s Original Past Life (OPL) defines itself as an “atmospheric noise trio.” It is a suitable description, albeit open to misinterpretation. Inference/Interference is not noisy, at least not aggressively so. There is a wide range of sounds employed throughout the album’s 44 minutes, all of them more than palatable. This is an exceedingly likeable album.…

  • The Moderns ep. 37

    CabinFever – Respire I 0.15 Terry Day / Dominic Lash / Alex Ward – Phytobenthos 22.15 Machinefabriek – VIII (with Marissa Nadler) 30.47 Albert Negredo – CortexM3 39.12 Antonella Porcelluzzi feat. Vaders Orchestra – Hounds of Love 49.20 Pom Pom – Untitled 12 56.41 Thomas Hoffknecht – Wake Up 1.03.20 Worg – Rapsodia Sciamanica (Svarog…

  • RAIC – Multiplicity

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    Promising “big band free jazz, black metal, ‘70s car chase themes, noise rock, avant garde, jazz and lounge,” this sixth album from Richmond, Virginia’s RAIC is suitably titled. In all, 11 musicians join the core quintet. The album opens with a near-23-minute jam that sounds like a Tom Waits soundtrack circa 1992. Given that three…