Kevin Press
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Often described as dark ambient, Sann Gusmão’s work deserves a less narrow classification. This new recording is more sophisticated than most everything we’ve heard from that subgenre in recent years. That’s not meant to be a knock on other artists. It’s just that these nine new tracks reach beyond the conventions of any single style…
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Guitarist Raven Bauer Durham of Phoenix Auto Group has released her debut, a lo-fi beauty that slides back and forth between indie folk, ambient and new classical. Bandmates James Wolf and Stephen Carroll Palke are along for the ride. Wolf contributes violin and a mean singing bowl to “Spring,” “Drawings,” “Emphemeral “and “Without Which, Not.”…
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While not often counted among his greatest works, Iannis Xenakis’ Persepolis deserves a prominent place in the history of electroacoustic music. This relentlessly abrasive musique concrète composition was premiered in 1971, in celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the ancient Persian city of Persepolis. Serving as a ceremonial capital for the Achaemenid Empire (the earliest…
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Gianluca Piacenza has nothing to hide. At least not on his exquisite new disc The Road to Home. Improvised and then honed for piano – and on one piece a softly recorded string quartet – the Italian pianist and composer has delivered a resonant, expansive collection of works that feel unusually intimate. Piacenza performs on…
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Germany Germany – Ghost – 0:47 to 7:16 Nu_Polygon – My Friends Are Holograms – 6:58 to 10:00 NERATERRÆ – Ø – 9:36 to 12:17 Trevor Ransom – Vent – 11:28 to 17:03 Benjamin Louis Brody – Together – 16:32 to 25:04 Sandro Mussida – Ventuno Costellazioni Invisibili (a) – 22:44 to 33:33 Wim Dehaen…
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Lewis Carroll fans will recognize this title from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Watching a croc coax fish into his mouth with a warm smile, Alice recites a poem that begins “How doth the little crocodile; improve his shining tale …” Carroll’s poem within a story was a parody of Isaac Watts’ “Against Idleness and Mischief.”…
