Discussions
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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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Whettman Chelmets describes his latest The Poor. The Reign as a “a prelude and as a punctuation mark for the relentless year in which they were recorded.” Sourced from a number of recording sessions, Chelmets has pulled together an ambient album that has remarkable range. The customary drones are all there, but so too are…
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By the time Chicago-born trumpeter Marquis Hill earned top billing at the 2014 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, he was already known internationally as an important young jazz player. With each new project, it becomes increasingly clear that the 33-year-old has a great deal to offer both jazz purists and those with a broader…
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Avant-pop fans have long admired Toronto’s Jane Siberry for her lush songwriting and crystalline vocals. The self-taught pianist went on to study music theory before launching a career that has inspired free spirits around the world. Recently, she’s been offering her back catalogue on a pay-what-you-choose basis – alongside new material – on her magic-the-dog.com.…
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Belfast’s Anna Yarbrough has enjoyed a successful career producing music for others. Her work has made programs like Keeping Up With the Kardashians, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Young and the Restless all sound a great deal more sophisticated. But it’s time for the composer and pianist to focus on her own vision. Two…
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