Kevin Press
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Last week’s post on PS’s fine new album Finding My Own Way Back Home put forward the idea that minimalism’s lack of sound is the only truly innovative thing going in music these days. (Still looking for someone to challenge me on that by the way.) A new disc from San Francisco multi-media artist Marc…
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Vienna’s Indafinsta Rec./ label has a new cassette release from Montreal envelope-pusher fxbip this month. François-Xavier Vigneault-Marcil’s latest is a six-track primarily electronic work that looks back fondly on the genre’s earliest days. That’s not a dig. At a time when so much electronic music is written to make you dance, it’s a treat to…
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Radical is not a word you’ve read a great deal on this blog. The term has been so often applied – and misapplied – to music that it’s been rendered virtually meaningless. But if there is a music genre that can still fairly be described with the r-word, it is minimalism. Put another way, the…
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If you’re a fan of electronic and ambient music, and have been thinking about exploring the new classical genre, Jakob Lindhagen’s latest is the perfect entry point. The Stockholm-based composer and multi-instrumentalist has released a drop-dead gorgeous recording that is both innovative and eminently accessible. Paces is recorded primarily for piano and string trio. And…
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con_cetta – Fine – 0:30 to 6:02 yellow6 – First Day #1 – 5:00 to 19:57 Snakepiss & Harvey Day – Part A The World – 19:07 to 33:39 Marc Kate – Inorganic – 32:12 to 36:22 Truck Stop Rent Boy – The Grinder V3 – 36:00 to 42:40 Form a Log – This Is…
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Historians will write about hip hop music with a primary focus on its lyrical content and social influence. Rightly so. The impact of the genre runs deep and worldwide. It continues to inform pop music styles and youth culture to an extent few imagined back in the 1970s. But as penetrating as that influence has…
