Kevin Press
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After my less-than-subtle attempt to kick-start an Elevator Bath fan club, it might surprise you to see my focus shift back to Austin, Texas less than a month later. But a new collection of recordings from the remarkable cassette label Astral Spirits has forced my hand. “The New Wave of Heavy Free Jazz and other…
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Cue the dream sequence. Russian multimedia glitch artist Waveplay has produced what may be the most defiantly creative album of his 10-disc catalogue. On Hold offers 15 quick hits of heavily processed electronics. It is deeply weird and no less wonderful. If there is a recording on this album that plays at its natural speed, it…
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Fair warning. A little more than three and a half minutes into this darkly foreboding record, you will be startled by a grotesque, inhaled scream. The fact that this occurs at the front end of an opening piece entitled “Angels” may cause you to wonder how such a terrible sound could ever be associated with…
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Kevin Press
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If there were such a thing as minimalist jazz, it could fairly be said that drummer George Hadow and guitarist Dirk Serries have come close to perfecting the subgenre. The duo’s new album, which drops on Raw Tonk Records July 7, is a staggering, conscious-raising, zig-when-you-thought-they’d-zag winner. To describe this disc as minimalist has more…
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In the finely crafted words of director/co-writer/co-star Jude Klassen, Love in the Sixth is “a feminist film although I suppose somebody’s being objectified somewhere. It’s so hard to keep up, baby.” There is no better way to introduce the impressive soundrack to this self-described “unromantic musical comedy about extinction.” Klassen’s sharp wit and ability to…
