Kevin Press
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Released: 2019 Label: Shelter Press 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 beguiling The Flower And The Vessel, a work made not “while” pregnant, she asserts,…
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Released: 2018 Label: Denovali Genre: Contemporary This brutally dazzling new album is the third piece of a trilogy that began in 2012 with I’m So In Love I Almost Forgot I Survived A Disaster. Part two followed three years later with Like a Pack of Hounds. Prairie’s standard choice of instruments differs from what we’re used to from…
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Released: 2022 Label: Another Timbre Genre: Contemporary Paiuk’s newest release covers a wide time-frame, with compositions for instruments and electronics, dating from 2005 up to the present recorded in recent years by the New European Ensemble, Ensemble Modelo62, pianist Teodora Stepancic and violoncellist Francesco Dillon. Across the album – which is released on the UK-based label Another…
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Released: 2016 Label: Sub Rosa Genre: Contemporary On The Acid Lands which is a wordplay, the music is divided into two lengthy compositions and one short one. The Opening Performance Orchestra creates almost menacing atmospheres, full of experimental sounds, drones, and eerie effects that sound like descending into the afterlife. On top of it, there are readings of…
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“I enjoy discovering things in the noise.” — iu takahashi Yokohama-based iu takahashi is a sound artist and composer who incorporates vocals and field recordings in her work. Her sixth release is Sense / Margin, out now on laaps. She and I traded emails earlier this month. When did you start singing? I was about…
The Moderns 