Kevin Press
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Has there ever been a more appropriate moment for an album called Lowered Expectations? At a time when institutions and their leadership seem to fail us as often as not, Bradley Sean Alexander has chosen precisely the right title for his new three-track release. His work is equally appropriate for this new year (he chose…
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Bruno Sanfilippo – Doll – 1:11 to 6:25 Bradley Sean Alexander – Decline, Of Everything – 5:15 to 15:55 DunJIN – Ligeia Expires … – 15:00 to 18:01 OKAM – Magmanolia – 17:18 to 23:16 nice medicine – exile – 23:01 to 27:07 The Heartwood Institute – Home Computer Terminal – 27:03 to 30:46 David…
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Music isn’t a language. It’s multiple languages. And like the world’s native tongues, some relate to one another. House and techno are both electronic in the same way that Italian and Spanish are both Latin-based. In this respect, multimedia artist and experimental composer Joshua Curry in San Jose, California can lay claim to a unique…
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Political risk guru Ian Bremmer made news today with his firm’s Top Risks for 2018 forecast. The president of Eurasia Group, writing with the company’s chairman Cliff Kupchan, warns us that our “global order is unravelling.” “The scale of the world’s political challenges is daunting,” they write in an introduction up on eurasiagroup.net. “Liberal democracies…
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Bruno Sanfilippo has the first release of this new year. A lovely solo piano piece called “Doll” went up on the usual platforms, along with a video on YouTube. Congratulations Bruno. And best wishes to all of our BADD PRESS friends in 2018. Kevin Press
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Seki Takashi was born on an island. Honshu island to be specific, in the city of Sendai. Home to about one million Japanese, the city is the largest in that country’s Tohoku Region. He’s since moved southwest to Tokyo. Like a lot of people who’ve left a smaller hometown for one of the world’s major…
