Kevin Press
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Having been found guilty on corruption charges, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva faces an arrest warrant tonight. This after da Silva’s request that he not be jailed while he seeks an appeal was rejected. The 72-year-old – a still-popular leader who began his career on a factory shop floor – is battling…
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The notes for Adrian Dziewanski’s new album The Trail Loops Back make an insightful connection between the Vancouver musician/poet’s work and early ambient compositions. “Dziewanski utilizes environmental recordings, found sound and prepared instruments as pathways into deep-time sonic meditation. His music harkens to an exquisite stasis that was once the focus of western music’s ambient…
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The most powerful free jazz often features extraordinary range. This is somewhat counterintuitive. The genre is most often associated with lengthy aural assaults, interrupted only long enough to flip to side B. But the ability to separate blasts of freneticism with differently paced sounds, and perhaps even a bit of white space, can turn a…
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Nhung Nguyen – Illumination – 0:27 to 3:09 Paper Relics – Substrata – 2:59 to 7:55 Groeni – Unrest – 6:17 to 11:58 Chris Carter – Corvus – 11:50 to 15:42 Yakamoto Kotzuga – Until We Fade – 14:52 to 18:05 +platform – Aleks # DIGI [MFM4416] v2 – 17:51 to 23:35 Howard Stelzer –…
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We’ve become accustomed to anonymity in art. As egotism has grown increasingly acceptable in popular culture, the decision to release work under a pseudonym is recognized as a progressive statement. It’s about putting the art first. In this respect, it’s a kind of selflessness that we could do with a great deal more of. It…
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Berlin’s Jazz-O-Tech label is off to a ripping start with its first release. The White Gardenia Vol.1 compilation offers up half a dozen acts combining sophisticated electronics with varying degrees of jazz influence. Every name here is worth marking down. Painè starts us off with an old-fashioned bop drum solo, sax and snapping fingers. He…
