Kevin Press
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New Zealand’s Jesse Woolston is equal parts audio and visual artist. His new disc µstructure is the work of a genuine aesthete with a flair for electronics. But there’s much more to unpack. The music is presented along with an artbook and installation. “This record is the representation of my passion for art, sound and…
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Born in the south of France in 1988, pianist Dominique Charpentier plays with a sophistication well beyond his three decades. His second solo album landed earlier this month. He and I traded emails yesterday. Did you intend for each of these pieces to be recorded so quickly? Yes, it was intended. Each track was composed in…
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A veteran of his home country’s most prominent music festivals, Italian new waver Furtherset has delivered a six-track mini-album long on aggressive beats and swirling, fuzzy synth lines. Tommaso Pandolfi works out of the middle ground between club music and avant-garde electronics. You can absolutely dance to this new material. Chances are though, that’ll have…
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Colin Andrew Sheffield wrote a lovely guest post for us in September, eulogizing his good friend Matt Shoemaker. “Matt’s sound art is some of the most singular, carefully arranged, densely layered and hauntingly beautiful work one is likely to find in this realm,” he wrote. “Most anyone who knows me has heard me talk at…
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Fennesz – Tom – 0:00 Prairie – Hard Water: Cracked Ice – 3:50 Gony – Priority (Original Mix) – 8:21 ZONK’T – Conditional Probability – 16:16 Lee Scratch Perry – Curley Dub – 20:00 Sound Awakener – Duskiness – 25:33 Do Tan Si – strange today – 31:08 Lil Jabba- MiZO (WiTU Mix) – 35:22…
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This ear-tickling electroacoustic beauty comes from Montreal’s Ana Dall’Ara-Majek. Born in Paris, she’s a composer and sound artist who earned her PhD in composition at the Université de Montréal in 2016. Dall’Ara-Majek describes Nano-Cosmos as “a cycle of acousmatic pieces dedicated to insects, small arthropods and micro-organisms.” It’s not difficult to imagine that if our…
