Kevin Press
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By the end of the 1980s, the excitement surrounding early ambient music artists like Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois had given way to the artistically suspect new age movement. Truthfully, the word movement gives that dark period too much credit. The only thing labels like Wyndham Hill managed to move was units. Lots…
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Quin Kirchner’s debut as a band leader landed last week. The Chicago scene veteran has produced a monster disc that has to be heard. Best new jazz album of 2018 so far. Kirchner answered a couple of questions for a post I put up on All About Jazz. Here’s a full transcript. How has the…
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New York duo Leena has won my attention. This is less difficult than I’ve made it sound. Truth is, I can be had in three easy steps. First, write me a somewhat cryptic email. Something along these lines: “All of our work is improvised electronic music using hardware, pedals and synths. Everything is 30 minutes longform…
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A Lily – Layla – 0:41 to 6:01 A Lily – Miles – 5:30 to 9:46 Blushing – Weak – 8:55 to 13:23 DR – 07/03/17 – 12:38 to 26:53 Herbsthauch – Pendeln – 26:18 to 35:08 lucretius22 – fss – 34:35 to 38:52 Quin Kirchner – Drums & Tines Pt. 2 – 38:26 to…
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It’s been more than three years since we heard something new from Minneapolis’ Chris Bartels. Starting a family can do that to you. A new mouth to feed has a way of upsetting schedules and reordering priorities. This new work captures Bartels’ domesticity in more ways than one. “I embraced imperfections and made a point…
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There is a floorboard outside my daughter’s bedroom that creaks loudly when stepped on. We have woken her more than once, trying to navigate our way around that particular piece of hardwood. Such is life in a house built more than a hundred years ago. Carlo Giustini’s new album La stanza di fronte (The Other…
