Kevin Press
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Karen Vogt on music, grief and the sea. Her latest is Waterlog, the product of three improvisational recording sessions. It’s due Feb. 9 via Nite Hive. Penelope Trappes’ cassette imprint is “designed as a label run by – and for – women and gender expansive artists to allow the free exploration of their approach to…
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Released: 2019 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Genre: Sound Art Guðnadóttir has channeled the likes of Brian Eno by recording individual sounds from various parts of the reactor and then putting them into a computer program to alter their pitches before putting them all together for a thrillingly real soundtrack. Not a little of the soundtrack, the WHOLE thing, is…
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Released: 1975 as two separate LPs (Reissued together in 2020) Label: Blank Forms Genre: Jazz This is avant-garde in the proper sense, residing at the limits of music, although of course, for some, that is its appeal. Jazz Journal
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Released: 2017 Label: Ropeadope Genre: Jazz Centennial Trilogy, from 2017, commemorates the first-ever jazz recordings, and his most recent studio album as a leader, “Ancestral Recall,” attempts to decolonize sound, connecting styles and rhythms from Africa and its diaspora. Chief Adjuah continues his experiments in sonic and aesthetic integration during a residency at this haven for…
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Released: 2021 Label: XXIM Records Genre: New Classical Just 27, Evensen says she has been writing music for two decades. The album includes the first piece she ever wrote, at age seven, “Vetur Genginn í Garð.” That title means “Winter Has Arrived” in English. “I had all of these emotions inside of me,” says Evensen. “I…
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