Discussions
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Keram Malicki Sánchez is a musician, vocalist, actor, virtual reality evangelist and much more who calls LA home these days. He and I first connected in 1992, when his band Blue Dog Pict released an extraordinary disc entitled Anxiety of Influence: A Nodding Into. Like Keram himself, the band – and that album in particular…
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Shimmering Moods has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading ambient music labels. Its founder Paul talks about the imprint’s origin and the role it plays today.
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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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