Kevin Press
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The vinyl surface noise scattered across Tim Linghaus’ lovely new album comes from an unexpected source. It would seem the German multi-instrumentalist and composer has long been taken with the soundtrack to Dirty Dancing. It’s hard to imagine someone responsible for such a quietly melancholic disc could have a soft spot for Patrick Swayze and…
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Listeners who find the title of this new Superalma Project album’s opener a bit on the nose can hardly be blamed. “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength” has an obvious resonance in the Age of Trump. But then artists have been quoting George Orwell for decades, convinced that they were living in…
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Ljudvägg – Hem – 0:40 to 7:34 Aires – Precisamos de espelhos (1) – 6:25 to 16:59 Lofield – Forgotten Memories – 15:52 to 20:22 Art Alfie – Front feat. Måns Glaeser – 20:00 to 25:58 James Osland – Just Feel Me, Dear Human – 24:58 to 29:56 Gray Acres – Rituals of Belief –…
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At first blush, Belfast’s Ghost Signs appears to be playing a bit of a joke on us with this new release title. A Temporary Loss of Transience, put another way, is a short-term break from the absence of permanence. That somewhat circular definition may be entirely appropriate given Ghost Signs’ penchant for tape and guitar…
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One of the funnier moments I’ve experienced as a music lover came just about 30 years ago. Brimming with excitement, I brought a John Cage CD I’d purchased over to play for my girlfriend’s big brother. “It’s composed for prepared piano,” I beamed. This was ill-advised. I was entirely incapable of describing what prepared piano…
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The fourth instalment in Peter Kutin’s and Florian Kindlinger’s Decomposition series landed at the beginning of March. Decomposition IV: Variations on Bulletproof Glass is very much as advertised. The duo abused a 400-kilogram slab of bulletproof glass measuring two by three metres and recorded the whole thing for posterity. At one point, a wrecking ball…
