Kevin Press
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It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s heard Christine Ott’s magnificent live soundtrack recording for F.W. Murnau and Robert Flaherty’s 1931 film Tabu: A Story of the South Seas, that the original pressing of 175 CDs sold out quickly. Good news: Gizeh Records has scheduled a second pressing for release Nov. 2. Originally…
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It is unlikely that ambient music producer Lee Yi set out to record the soundtrack of the winter that is about to set in. Given that the prodigious artist calls Málaga, Spain home, snow drifts and ice storms probably aren’t a big concern. That being said, Yi does have the great outdoors on his mind.…
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Manny Marko – Shinji – 0:13 to 4:07 Francesco Covarino – oliva #106 – 3:40 to 5:43 Valiska – Across a City, Across a Country – 5:12 to 15:52 That Faint Light – Scintilla – 15:40 to 20:15 PS – Reverie Unlock – 20:07 to 23:43 Gamardah Fungus – Landscape Painted By Fear – 23:35…
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I’ve just submitted review of a terrific new release by France’s Philippe Foch and Mathias Delplanque. Performing together as Foch Delplanque, their new album Secret lands Monday. While doing my research, I found this extraordinary free download from 2016. Delplanque explains the piece on his BandCamp page: “It is the digital recording of a cassette…
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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…
