Kevin Press
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Next time you’re in Chicago, check out Myopic Books over on N. Milwaukee Ave. You can get there on the CTA; it’s a short walk from the Damen Blue Line stop in Wicker Park. Besides earning top used book store rankings from both The Chicago Reader and Chicago Magazine, Myopic features a live improvisational/ experimental…
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I wrote a piece about Harold Budd over the weekend for exclaim.ca. The ambient music legend (whose not altogether fond of that label by the way) left behind minimalism early in his career to devote himself to music that was uncompromisingly “pretty.” It was a move that would earn him international acclaim. Pennsylvania’s Keith Kenniff…
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The Castel Sant’Angelo is revered by Roman Catholics around the world. Built on the bank of the Tiber River in Rome about 135 A.D., it was later the site of a key event in early Catholicism. Pope Gregory the Great, hoping to end a catastrophic plague by leading a procession in the area, reported a…
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Rex Kyed – Departures – 0:26 to 4:55 Philipp Rumsch – Epilogue – 4:12 to 11:57 J@K@L – Some Rows Exited – 11:41 to 19:24 Bloodkry – Nowhere – 18:49 to 24:30 Nanook of the North – Arfernat – 23:30 to 28:23 Muddersten – Private Pleasure 3 – 28:18 to 36:19 Carlo Giustini – L’albero…
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Known more recently as an improvisational jazz guitarist, Dirk Serries built an extensive catalogue of ambient recordings between 1984 and 2007. Recording under the name vidnaObmana (Serbian for optical illusion), Serries produced more than 50 releases. The list includes some two dozen solo efforts and collaborations with Klinik, PBK, Steve Roach and others. The inexhaustible…
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Poetry fans will recognize At The Still Point Of The Turning World from T. S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton. The first of his Four Quartets, the poem is about time and redemption. Eliot’s big idea was that getting our heads around the nature of time and the universe will draw us closer to God. By focusing…
