Kevin Press

  • Drone recordings that fail to inspire often do so because they lack texture. There is a kind of flatness that the genre sometimes inspires that can be especially difficult to sustain in long compositions. This second effort by Thighpaulsandra and Massimo Pupillo is so far removed from that criticism that I hesitate to even associate…

  • With more than 30 recording credits to her name, South Korean native Okkyung Lee brings an impressive work ethic to her professional life. Now a New Yorker, the cellist, composer and improviser has released a major new work that marries her cultural roots with the fearless experimentation of a true modernist. Cheol-Kkot-Sae (Steel.Flower.Bird) is a…

  • BELP – Travelling thru Galaxies 0.00 Klaudia Gawlas – Margin (Original Mix) 1.59 Locked Groove – From Beyond 5.24 BEC – Sines & Breaks 01 9.03 SCB – Anaesthetic 14.54 Gideon – Lawnmower Man 22.15 Christian Vasseur – la scie sauteuse 28.33 Hardfloor – Thisishowwedo 30.31 Josh Wink – Dame Deep 33.18 Alien Rain –…

  • Sicilian Skrima writes about growing up in his Italian home, fascinated by the far-off, sometimes muffled sounds that would find their way into his bedroom. He recorded those sounds with a number of devices (of varying quality), and then applied modifications to his indoor field recordings. For years, this was a kind of passion project…

  • Don’t be misled by the pastel pink cover, Anders Brørby’s new Traumas is every bit as dark as its title suggests. These 10 new tracks are by turns sad, menacing and captivating. From the album’s notes: “Like a cracked mirror held up to the stages of grief Traumas buries deep into the scores of the…

  • Pepo Galán & Max Würden – Tension 0.03 Marcus Fischer & Simon Scott – Branches 5.55 Yui Onodera – Substrate 4 13.55 Snorri Hallgrímsson – Orbit 20.45 Knivtid – Skogarna är redan svarta II 24.50 Glyn Bigga Bush – Speltre Flecks 30.24 Joshua Abrams – Scratching On It 32.32 Quicksails – The Bright 38.14 William…