Kevin Press
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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…
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We should never take artists who also work as curators for granted. The ego (not to mention energy) required to make a lifetime commitment to art is considerable. When those rare individuals find ways to balance their own creative output with support and promotion for other artists, they deserve special recognition. Los Angeles-based Yann Novak…
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You might know Portugal’s Jorge Queijo from his work with fellow Porto-resident Susana Santos Silva in SSS-Q. They’ve been presenting their special blend of free jazz-experimental-electronic music since 2012. Queijo’s solo output includes a new 16-minute cassette released at the end of November. Abstract Thoughts II is based on a separate partnership, with sculptor Sofia…
