Discussions
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Kristin Oppenheim has released the second of two collections, spanning 16 recordings from the 1990s. Voices Fill My Head features pieces produced between 1993 and 1999. Night Run focuses on works from 1992-1995. Both come to us from the INFO label.
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Sally Decker and Briana Marela have produced a wonderful new disc entitled Small Tremble In Slow Motion. Its focus – according to the two artists – is grief and its impact on us, physically and emotionally.
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M. Joakim is a lighting and projection designer, scenographer and stage manager. She also makes music as a solo artist under the name Saturn City, as a member of both Processor and No Colour Blue. On June 11, she will present her “synthesis of electronic disciplines using a live set of hardware-generated electronic music,” at…
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Melanie Dyer founded WeFreeStrings, the improvisational string/rhythm collective in 2011. She also performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra, Dead Lecturers, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Baba Andrew Lamb, Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet, William Parker, Tomeka Reid Stringtet and more. We talked about improv, the power of collaboration and more.
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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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