Kevin Press
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Released: 2018 Label: Erased Tapes Genre: New Classical Great music is not exclusively built on big ideas. Often, inspiration comes haphazardly, with little or no intellectual foundation. On the flip side, too much thinking can get in the way of the composing process. There are plenty of recordings in the world with great backstories and not…
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Released: 2017 Label: Canadian Rifles Genre: Contemporary This may be the most sophisticated break-up album ever recorded. Portugal’s Rui P. Andrade has produced an electronic ode to heartbreak that is both sad and gripping. The Moderns
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Released: 2017 Label: Auris Apothecary Genre: Contemporary There is palpable tension throughout this 20-movement cycle that makes a passive, or even casual listen virtually impossible. Stabat Mater is among the most challenging releases you have heard this year. And it’s magnificent. Exclaim!
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Released: 2021 Label: What Are We Records Genre: Contemporary Elusion is sometimes harsh in its approach, claustrophobic and unfriendly but without anger. Sadness can also have no basis or reason. We will recognize a bit of this adulterated air that we feel in the most tormented passages of Johann Johannsson ‘s records or A Winged Victory For The Sullen. On…
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Will Long and his late wife Danielle Baquet founded Celer in 2005, while living in California. Long continued to develop the project after her passing in 2009, and has made a new life for himself in Tokyo. He is admired around the world, for both his artistry and outsized work ethic. The Celer catalogue contains…
The Moderns 