Ambient
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Warm congratulations to Seattle’s Hush Hush Records on the release of its 100th title. HH100 pulls together 14 tracks featuring the work of big talents like Shelf Nunny, Lowhitey and more. It’s been just half a dozen years since KEXP’s Alex Ruder decided to “collaborate with a friend to help share their music with the…
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This will sound a bit funny coming from a music blogger, but I long ago gave up on the idea that I can turn people onto alternative styles of music. The best I can hope for is to draw listeners’ attention to great examples of musical forms they already appreciate. It’s a bit of a…
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Maybe it’s because as a teenager you’re trying so hard to put distance between your circle and the generation just ahead of you and you’re caught up in your own bubble that you don’t appreciate that things you think are radical departures are actually baby steps in a different direction – sometimes even merely cosmetic.…
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Celebrated British composer Michael Price has worked with film-makers for much of his career. After scoring numerous dance works early in his career, Michael Kamen asked Price to orchestrate and program music for his Paramount production of Event Horizon. That 1996 gig sparked a vibrant five-year period during which the pair collaborated on multiple film…
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London-based Caleb Wood is quick to point out that while he calls the big city home now, his roots run north to Yorkshire. Once home to Celtic tribes, the county more recently played a significant role in the post-industrial revolution economy. It is home, as Wood describes it, “with both a long history of sonic…
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MNTNSofSLNC represents a pair of firsts. It is Christopher Coe’s first release under his own name. It’s also the premier title for the electronic label Awesome Soundwave. The mountains of silence referred to in the album’s title have inspired eight sumptuously conceived tracks. So it is a personal project, in a genre more often know…
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