Kevin Press
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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…
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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…
