Kevin Press
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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…
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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.…
