Ambient
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Tokyo sound artist Jobanshi has delivered his fourth solo long-player. SUPERBLOCK is described as a study of “the borders of dreamland and the awoken.” It’s the kind of highfalutin description some musicians would steer clear of. Jobanshi has nothing to worry about. SUPERBLOCK is a major work. He pulls together samples, tape experiments, field recordings…
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The first time Lou Reed was handed a Moog guitar, shortly after its development in 2008, he understood immediately how important an innovation it was. “There’s nothing else you can do this on,” he said, dabbing at the fretboard. “This opens the door.” A decade later, the stringed instrument designed by a synthesizer company is…
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Brooklyn’s 577 Records grew out of a series of living room concerts, the first of which took place at 577 Fifth Ave. in 2001. There is a long tradition of home-made gigs in jazz music. The more remarkable thing about 577 though – which runs very much contrary to jazz tradition – is that 100%…
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Whether by design or not, Japan’s Masaya Kato has found a way to combine a core feature of house music with ambient noise. His frequent use of Fender Rhodes and piano vignettes is immediately recognizable to club kids young and old. But what he does with those sounds is entirely new. Kato’s latest, contact, goes…
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TJ Norris and I have prepared another pair of reviews together. This time out, it’s a re-release of Celer’s Nacreous Clouds. Norris hosts Toneshift.net blog from Ft. Worth, Texas. We’re posting both reviews on both blogs. TJ’s Take I probably still have my original copy of the original on Dale Lloyd’s amazing Seattle-based and/OAR imprint (circa 2008), but instead…
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Before there was a podcast, a book or radio program, before there was really even much of a blog called BADD PRESS, I got an email from Adam Bentley at Auteur Research. “Wanted to send you the new music video from Toronto ambient duo North Atlantic Drift,” he wrote. “The song is off their upcoming…
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