Kevin Press
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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…
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Despite its proud political and intellectual history, its moderate climate and breathtaking landscape, Greece is a difficult place to call home. A debt crisis near the end of the last decade transformed the country from a tourist mecca that delivered its citizens a comfortable lifestyle into an economic pariah. Ten years later, the national unemployment…
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Spiral – 0:44 to 4:58 Sandro Mussida – Ventuno Costellazioni Invisibili (b) – 4:41 to 18:58 Park Jiha – Sounds Heard from the Moon – 16:40 to 25:46 DR – Rainy Evening – 24:43 to 27:48 Dane Rousay – Inception of Siri – 26:57 to 31:03 Jamaica Suk – Art Vs. War…
