Kevin Press
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The Moderns ep. 313
ali balighi, Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Andrea Taeggi, Audio Obscura, boycalledcrow, carlo niederhauser, concussed, de type inconnu, Gretchen Korsmo, J. Pavone String Ensemble, Johanna Elina Sulkunen, kee avil, kevin press, LEMADI TRIO, masaya ozaki, Midori Hirano, Montgomery and Turner, Nils Mosh, Splitter Orchester, steph richards, the moderns, werner hasler, Šalter EnsembleSpotify Apple iHeart
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Tokyo’s Yui Onodera is among the world’s great composers and sound artists. He describes his work as a kind of nexus “between musical forms, architectural acoustics and spatial awareness.” His catalogue includes collaborations with Francisco Lopez, Stephen Vitiello, Robert Lippok, Scanner, Pjusk and Yotam Avni. He is also a sound art lecturer at Rikkyo University and Musashino…
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Released: 2019 Label: Klanggold Genre: Contemporary [A] lovingly detailed, hybrid ambient/field recording piece. We hear wind blow, birds sing, rustling hay, guitars and more. The 24-minute work is loosely formed, like a casual stroll through the meadow it’s meant to depict. Not quite searching, not quite aimless. It has an extraordinary strength of presence. The Moderns
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Released: 2017 Label: Enough Records Genre: Contemporary Cruz has built 10 pieces that feature the kind of genuine white noise that dissolves into whatever space you’re occupying. Whether you’re feeding the music through ear buds on the subway or noise-cancelling headphones in your basement, you’ll hear things that you will be unable to place. This has two…
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Released: 2017 (reissued in 2022) Label: Warm Winters Ltd. Genre: Contemporary [W]hat sets this one apart is the thrift shop contribution. Because we only hear the woman’s voice, we’re left with a discomforting sense of neediness. Clearly this is a relationship built around some distance, literally and perhaps otherwise. And because she is clearly not a young…
