Kevin Press
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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…
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Raven Bauer – Atmosphere – 0:40 to 4:48 Machinefabriek – As Much As It Is Worth – 4:40 to 8:11 Mathias Delplanque – TU – 7:53 to 16:24 Gianluca Piacenza – A Unified Voice – 15:15 to 19:54 DMLLL – Maybe Soon – 19:39 to 22:53 Christian Vasseur – la neige – 22:39 to 24:37…
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To fully appreciate this extraordinary new work from Rutger Zuydervelt (a.k.a. Machinefabriek), it’s important to understand the subject of the documentary that The Red Soul serves as a soundtrack to. Joseph Stalin led the Soviet Union, as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and as Soviet Premier…
