Electroacoustic
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Some of the most extraordinary ambient music is surprisingly dense. Given the genre’s traditional emphasis on spacious, quiet composition, an artist that can achieve the same result with a more complex approach deserves recognition. Madrid’s David Mata is one of those artists. Since 2008, he’s composed work for album release, as well as for film,…
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Political risk guru Ian Bremmer made news today with his firm’s Top Risks for 2018 forecast. The president of Eurasia Group, writing with the company’s chairman Cliff Kupchan, warns us that our “global order is unravelling.” “The scale of the world’s political challenges is daunting,” they write in an introduction up on eurasiagroup.net. “Liberal democracies…
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From the start, Giuseppe Cordaro’s new solo album offers listeners a simple elegance that comes as a great relief at the end of a difficult year. Simple, but not at all simplistic. The Reggio Emilia, Italy-based composer delivered eight new pieces to us last month that stitch multiple genres together seamlessly. Among them are ambient…
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References to the drone genre have always struck me as a bit funny. For (almost) all intents and purposes, describing something as droning is hardly complimentary. It suggests a lack of imagination; a lack of creativity. Obviously, the best drone compositions are anything but that. Certainly they are minimalist, but close listens always reveal multiple…
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