Kevin Press

  • Both tracks from this exceptional two-piece album have been featured on the BADD PRESS podcast. “Ascent” kicked off episode 16 on Oct. 8. “Descent” was a part of episode 19 on Oct. 29. There’s good reason for the enthusiasm. Italian sound artist Paolo Mascolini has produced a powerful drone work that delivers a healthy reminder…

  • AllAboutJazz.com was kind enough to add me to its list of contributors last month. My first post focused on the great jazz drummer Abbey Rader, who has two terrific new albums out. I’ve just submitted a review of Kodian Trio’s II, a strong six-track effort scheduled for a Nov. 17 release. The band features Dirk…

  • Deathprod – Dead People’s Things – 00:06 to 18:41 O Ratel Ratel – Ode Aan O – 12:21 to 18:41 Snakepiss + Harvey Day – Part B Soiree or The Misbehaving Patient – 17:16 to 31:31 Charles Edward Fambro – Collision-Crush – 22:22 to 37:50 Petridisch – Side B – 36:30 to 50:53 Ak’chamel, The Ecstatic…

  • Marc Kate – Corpsed – 00:02 to 11:12 Brett Naucke – Hallucinations I – XVII – 10:16 to 25:09 Subsonic DeFormation – Normalized But Disbelieve Lingers On – 25:00 to 30:11 sōzuproject – Descent – 29:56 to 49:40 As Above So Below – Severance (Prologue) 47:02 to 49:41 Dubtrak – Audiofields – 49:13 to 54:40…

  • 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…

  • 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…