Kevin Press
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This week’s picks:
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Released: 2018 Label: Noton Genre: Contemporary Though routinely gorgeous, her work is rarely relaxing, rarely comfortable. Atkinson actively situates her compositions in the intimate, unruly liminal space between comfort and discomfort, quiet and disquiet. This remains true of her new record, the To fully appreciate Ryuichi Sakamoto’s latest collaboration with German minimalist Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto),…
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Released: 2019 Label: Moone Records Genre: Contemporary While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar-playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily navigates across such a vast terrain. In their most often observed environments (Dorji’s relentlessly frequent solo and collaborative releases; Dieterich…
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Released: 2017 Label: Rottenman Editions Genre: Contemporary The three pieces come at you gently, but they’re powerful nonetheless. The noise elements he incorporates are understated, and especially effective. The album’s final track is the almost 17-minute long “Vulnerable Petal.” Yi says it “shows us the fragility of life, emptiness after the chaos and the uncertainty of…
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Released: 2018 Label: Relative Pitch Records Genre: Contemporary Because her instrument of choice is the trumpet, admirers of free jazz will find a lot here to sink their teeth into. So will lovers of new classical music; these nine works are ambitious to the point of rendering categorization meaningless. Exclaim!
The Moderns 