Kevin Press
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We tend to associate ambient music with pleasant sounds. It’s an artificial distinction of course. Many of the genre’s most creative works – particularly in recent years – are packed with grainy, abrasive elements that on their own can be quite difficult to listen to. Placed in the right context though, they often provide welcome…
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ADT – New Body – 0:41 to 6:59 Roam – A Good Thing – 6:00 to 9:12 N [54] – Suedfall (Live) – 7:42 to 26:34 Christian Vasseur – bestiaire artésien imaginaire – 23:28 to 28:20 Trevor Ransom – It’s all been such a blur – 27:18 to 31:40 Artificial Memory Trace – Kraparticle 3…
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Alt Empordà, which sits on the northeastern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, is best known internationally for its Dali Theatre Museum. Visitors can find many of Salvador Dali’s original works there. In January, the picturesque comarca was slammed by an EF2 category tornado with winds as high as 180 km/hr. Damage was reported in Cistella,…
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When people talk about the 1980s, it’s often in hyper-pop-culture terms. Hair gel, shoulder pads, synth pop, yuppie culture, etc. In fact, it was an intense, often serious time both culturally and artistically. Americans chose a former B-movie actor of questionable intelligence to be their president. On the other side of the Cold War, we…
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Toronto hip hop producer Roam has been developing a taste for garage music in recent years, and has a fine new LP to show for it. To prepare for a review I submitted to exclaim.ca, Roam and I traded emails. Here’s an edited version of our Q&A. Tell me about your background. I’ve been producing…
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Mathias Delplanque is back with a new live recording, laid down in May of last year with his KEDA partner E’Joung-Ju during the fifth edition of the Festival Printemps Coréen. Live at Cosmopolis is a spacious, meandering improv piece that features Delplanque on live sampling and bass and E’Joung-Ju on a traditional six-stringed wooden Korean…
