Kevin Press
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It is 1984 and I have been introduced to Anne Clark by our local college radio station. It is my first time. Her Croydon accent punches its way through stabs of analogue synthesizer. If I am her target (oh, if only), then her aim is true. I am transfixed. She sounds smart and beautiful and…
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Maymind – No Headlights, One Glove 0.00 Tony Diana & Sergiu Salagean – The Reality Before You 5.01 Andreas Lutz – Analog Read 17.34 Test Card – The Analog Nature Of Summer Master 26.57 Andrea Taeggi – Dinergy 30.49 Rudolf Eb.er – Auslöschung – Fontaneller Auswurf 39.37 Tonus – Texture 1 (from Texture Point) 47.04…
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Brooklyn’s 577 Records grew out of a series of living room concerts, the first of which took place at 577 Fifth Ave. in 2001. There is a long tradition of home-made gigs in jazz music. The more remarkable thing about 577 though – which runs very much contrary to jazz tradition – is that 100%…
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Olivia Block’s new 49-plus-minute live concert and sound installation is breathtaking in its scope. 132 Ranks, composed for pipe organ between 2016 and 2017 is a slow moving, gorgeous beast of a recording. The Chicago-based experimental music/sound composer and media artist wrote the work for the giant Skinner organ in her hometown’s Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.…
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Cologne-based Sonae’s second album I Started Wearing Black landed this past spring like a spray of birdshot. Sonia Güttler’s powerful style filled headphones with meticulously detailed, anti-minimalist electronics. Every pull of the trigger hit multiple marks. It’s hard to imagine more formidable material from which to assemble a remix disc. The four artists invited to…
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Like a lot of the world’s most interesting electronic music artists, Istanbul’s Hüma Utku has a classical music background. She started playing piano at 14. By 20, she was a full-fledged recording artist. In time, her music took on more modern techniques. By 2015, Utku’s debut as R.A.N. (Roads at Night) Her Trembling Ceased combined…
