Kevin Press
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Austin, Texas has long had a world-class music scene, the sort more often associated with global centres than with cities home to fewer than a million souls. While it may be best known for country and other roots-based music, there’s a good deal more under the surface. Colin Andrew Sheffield, chief proprietor of the Elevator…
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Once a punk, always a punk. Richard Melville Hall’s new side hustle dropped its second LP today. You can find both Moby & The Void Pacific Choir albums FOC via WeTransfer. Hard copies will be available June 16. Meantime, check out this typo-ridden “press release” over the name John Miller. (Credit Ben Kaye at Consequence…
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Long-time fans of ambient music will recognize the parallels between Nhung Nguyen’s wonderful playing and the great Harold Budd’s penchant for spacious, unabashedly pretty piano solos. Her new disc An ordinary narrative is far from ordinary. It is a great success. I’ve written about Nguyen before. She’s been producing both modern classical and ambient music…
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Polar Seas Recordings has two handsome cassette/download releases out June 2: the aforementioned Echoic Architecture by Endurance and this new one from Brad Deschamps. Those who follow the label will recognize Deschamps as the label’s curator and as half of North Atlantic Drift. This iridescent beauty is his eighth release under the anthéne name.…
