Kevin Press
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President Bongo & Óttar S. – 3° Quadrante (Painted by Yotam Avni) 0.00 Kenny Dahl – Rotary (A. Mochi Remix) 2.00 Christine Benz – Awakening Time 5.16 dubspeeka – Garrison 1 8.45 Lo Shea – Activation 13.30 ZETA RETICULA – Southern Skies 17.00 George Live – Strange Orbits 22.10 Sieren – In Limbo 24.35 Spec…
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Sweden’s Åke Parmerud has assembled four acousmatic works dating between 1990 and 1995 on a must-have collection of out-of-print recordings. (Acousmatic is an electroacoustic subgenre composed for presentation with speakers rather than live instruments.) These powerful, sometimes disturbing recordings all date back to the mid-1990s. Thematically and artistically, each has maintained extraordinary relevance. “Grains of…
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As is often the case, Alexandra Stréliski has had help in her rise to new-classical music prominence. The support came from close to home. Fellow Montrealer and film director Jean-Marc Vallée assigned her soundtrack work on his Dallas Buyers Club in 2013. They collaborated again, three years later on Demolition. In 2017, Stréliski’s contribution to HBO’s…
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Emika’s new album Falling In Love With Sadness drops Oct. 10. She and I spoke yesterday about the new release, and its important subject matter. Emika is working with Help Musicians UK. Proceeds from album sales will go to Music Minds Matter, the organization’s mental health service for members of the music industry. Kevin Press
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Don’t be fooled by the soft pink-red cover, there isn’t much on this giant four-track album that is conventionally appealing. It is striking and it is ambitious and it is even a little bit beautiful. But its aesthetic is largely confrontational, both in terms of the subject matter it covers and the challenge it presents…
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Jobanshi – This Moment 0.00 Dustin Wong – New Societies Interacting, Let’s Zoom In 5.15 thisquietarmy – Battlefield Arkestrah (feat. Aidan Baker) 14.36 Giulio Aldinucci – The Burning Alphabet 24.54 Brandon Lopez – Gruppo 28.46 Andrew Bernstein – Deus Ex Machina 35.28 Audrey Chen – Mouth 42.51 Covarino/Incorvaia – i 51.26 Inland & Julian Charrière…
