Kevin Press
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As a child, my wife Lisa was desperate to learn the piano. She was too young to understand how big an ask this was of her hard-working parents. Hilda and Stan were as generous as they could be with their two kids in those days. But a piano was no small thing, financially or otherwise.…
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Farwarmth – Boundless Expansion – 0:41 to 7:41 Scott Worthington – A Time That Is Also a Place – 5:48 to 17:18 Carlos Suero & Pepo Galán – The trouble of sweetness – 15:41 to 25:33 Fear No Sound – Mix and Re:Mix and Mix – A Special Semiotic Mix By DJ Metis:Blue – 22:54…
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Jazz improvisation lends itself naturally to electronics. That so few artists in the genre have chosen to add them to the mix is, depending on your perspective, either a missed opportunity or a happily dodged bullet. Chicago’s ADT has a new album that will move more than a few improv lovers from the second camp…
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The contrast between the gentle ambient sounds Pepo Galán is well known for and Carlos Suero’s penchant for thick, dense electronics is central to the appeal of this new collaborative effort. The duo has produced a layered, ominously visual album. Galán’s work on the cover captures the feel of these five new works perfectly. Dark…
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Any album that sets out to contemplate our place in the universe had better have some gravitas. Portugal’s Afonso Arrepia Ferreira (a.k.a. Farwarmth) has plenty on this new release. At just 19, he’s produced an epic. These 13 tracks are giant, growling monsters. Ferreira combines electronics, noise and high-volume distortion with beautifully performed piano, synthesizer,…
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James Armstrong’s imaginative use of sustained guitar sounds places him on the near end of an artistic continuum that features Randy Roos, Steve Holland, Tony Levin, Mike Stern and more recently Brian Eno collaborators Michael Brook, Daniel Lanois and The Edge. This is the kind of company most guitarists would be happy to keep. In…
