Ambient
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The moment my daughter Grace was born, I was filled with a sense of my mother. It wasn’t that she was named for her, or that I’ve ever been a believer in reincarnation. Staring into her bright blue eyes and at her orange-brown hair for the first time, I felt as though a figure I’d…
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Couple of things you should know if you’re considering a move to Svalbarð, the archipelago that lies inside the Arctic Circle, between Norway and the North Pole. First, get used to reindeer and polar bears. A lot of them. With a hypercarnivorous bear population something close to 3,000, they outnumber the locals by about 15…
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Our ability to share large files of data with collaborators around the world electronically is still a relatively recent development. The practice has become central to many musicians’ process. The opportunity to partner with like-minded artists around the world from the comfort of a home studio has given us countless recordings that would have otherwise…
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If it comes as a surprise to hear that Andrew Weathers’ delightfully scattered Full Spectrum Records is celebrating its 10th birthday, you’re in good company. “We are just as astonished as you are,” writes Weathers in the email that accompanied the release. “If we’re being honest, there was never any real ‘plan’ when we started…
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There’s long been a tension in experimental music between the artist’s vision and their ability to communicate it to an audience. The size of that audience is inconsequential. But it is generally accepted that failing to consider one’s listeners is an act of self-indulgence. Which is to say that the avant-garde is often a balancing…
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Hüseyin Evirgen’s latest under the Magna Pia name sports a title that’s believed to be of Sumerian origin. Daiauna is a reference to “having power over fertility” according to the album’s notes. The Greek word for demon or minor deity – daimōn – is one of its derivatives. This seven-track dark-ambient album begins with a…
The Moderns 