Kevin Press
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Field recordings can be a tricky business. When they capture the experiences of people not credited – or for that matter, asked for permission – they raise important questions about the right to privacy and ownership of our image and voice. At the same time, they deliver a line of sight into worlds many of…
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First thing’s first. London’s Sean Khan opens his new album with a track called “Moment of Collapse,” featuring a drop dead vocal by The Cinematic Orchestra’s Heidi Vogel. It is the best new jazz track released this year. If your local jazz music station doesn’t have this on heavy rotation starting today, change the channel.…
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With baselines worthy of a Jah Wobble mixtape, Audiokern’s new eight-track EP scores top marks for both production value and unconventionality. There are multiple nods here to more common electronic music styles, dark ambient among them. But there are too many surprises along the way – good ones, I’m pleased to report – for this…
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Listening to this expansive new work from collaborators John Tilbury, Keith Rowe and Kjell Bjørgeengen without the benefit of context, you’re likely to be struck by its eloquence and depth. The 48-plus-minute work is clearly the product of experienced, accomplished hands. When you learn, however, that this improvisation was recorded just weeks after the passing…
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Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek – Wake – 0:00 Daniel Diaz – The Church of the Long Sleep – 7:10 Seki Takashi – Voices – 9:57 Panoptique Electrical – In Between Buildings – 15:50 elena de angeli & pietro riparbelli – abisso – 26:07 Irammm – Far Marcha – 35:59 Roam – Ashes – 46:26 Slit…
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Marc Jacobs pulled the title of his third disc After the Flash Flood from a similarly titled photograph by Joel Sternfeld. It’s an American desert landscape shot, one in which a house and car appear moments from slipping through a sinkhole that has already swallowed another vehicle. “The perfect framing and angle of the picture,…
