Kevin Press
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In the late 1980s, a Canadian journalist asked Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H. Kirk if he felt his band had sold out to disco. As you can imagine, that hit a bit of a nerve. “No,” he shot back. “Disco sold out to us.” The question did not come out of the blue. The Cabs’ 12-inch…
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Previous blog posts have included descriptions of certain noise pieces as more or less musical. What I’m getting at there is the ability of some composers to turn unconventional sound sources into music that can be appreciated by more than just committed noise fans. This is not to say that these pieces are easy to…
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I don’t write a lot about rock music. Early in my career, I covered the indie scene for exclaim!*@#, Chart and a number of other magazines, and I hosted a radio program on the subject for Toronto’s ckln-fm. I met some great people and heard a ton of incredible alt-rock. But it’s not an overstatement…
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sōzuproject – Ascent – 0:30 to 21:27 Jean D.L. & Karen Willems – Real Time Travel – 20:11 to 28:13 DJ Zevzek – Concentrix – 27:58 to 34:23 I Heart Noise – The Bible – 30:32 to 34:58 Petridisch – Side A – 34:12 to 49:12 Lee Yi – Momentary Desolation – 47:29 to…
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Baseball superhero Yogi Berra claimed to have originated the expression “the future ain’t what it used to be.” While it may be true that he put his own unique spin on the line, the saying does in fact predate him. According to quoteinvestigator.com, a version of the line “was published in 1937 in a journal…
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References to the drone genre have always struck me as a bit funny. For (almost) all intents and purposes, describing something as droning is hardly complimentary. It suggests a lack of imagination; a lack of creativity. Obviously, the best drone compositions are anything but that. Certainly they are minimalist, but close listens always reveal multiple…
