Discussions
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Bill Seaman and Stephen Spera on their album Architectures Of Light, digital collaboration and the prevalence of grit.
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Aidan Baker is a prolific Toronto-born multi-instrumentalist who calls Berlin home now. We talked about his work, what it says about the world around him and the city he and his partner Leah Buckareff have called home for 12 years. Baker has multiple European dates lined up this spring and summer, including the A Colossal…
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Latvian composer and pianist Aija Alsina has delivered a deeply touching follow-up to her 2017 debut Domum. Recorded at home on an upright piano, Alsina employed the instrument’s felt mode. When its third pedal is pressed, strips of felt land between the hammers and strings. The softening effect is ideally suited to her very personal…
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Pianist Nicoletta Favari and percussionist Christopher Salvito make delicately picturesque music, informed by both their shared interest in travel and instrument design. The combination of these two inspirations, and of the artists themselves, lends Passepartout Duo recordings a spirit of wanderlust driven by – but not confined to – geography. For their latest, a seven-track…
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Italian composer Lorenzo Bracaloni’s latest features piano, electric piano, guitars, synthesizers, voice and field recordings. Like previous recordings, Ljós is presented with extraordinary attention to detail. Recording under the name Fallen, Bracaloni makes ambient music that doesn’t rely on the genre’s many cliches. One gets the impression that the careful attention he pays to his…
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Biliana Voutchkova is a violinist, composer and improvisational artist who splits her time between a city home in Berlin and a rural one on the coast of Bulgaria’s Black Sea. Under more normal circumstances, she also tours internationally as both a solo artist and collaborator. She first picked up the violin at four. Just five…
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