Electronic
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France’s Marc Euvrie is a study in contrasts. Classically trained as a pianist and cellist in childhood, he left it all behind for the punk scene. More recent works include a mix of classical and electronic influences. And he has shed the stripped-down, do-it-yourself hardcore ethic for an ambitious trilogy project that promises to explore…
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Adam Bentley from Auteur Research forwarded a new video from Toronto’s CARES this afternoon. James Beardmore’s project is preparing its second full-length release, called Regular Unconscious. “Collapse Emulator” is the lead single. “The album’s mood shifts between frantic and serene, finding catharsis and energy in exorcising the overload of contemporary life,” writes Bentley. “The artist’s…
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There are helicopters flying over my house. They’ve been back and forth all morning, feeding video of the neighbourhood back to the newsrooms producing non-stop reports of last night’s shooting. We know some of what happened at about 10 pm local time here. Just a few hundred metres north of our home, a young man…
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It was the fall of 1986. My girlfriend and I were visiting her brother Steve and sister-in-law Evita, both fans of traditional classical music. I looked up to them both and was eager to impress them with my contributions to the evening’s playlist. My most recent purchase was John Cage’s Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared…
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This sparse, contemplative recording is described as a summary of two recent Fabio Perletta works: Genkai and Ichinen. It also marks the end of a series of pieces developed in collaboration with Haruo Okada focused, according to the album’s notes “on notions of presence, limitation, contemplation, patience and humility.” You need not be familiar with…
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My new friend TJ Norris and I have prepared a pair of reviews of Machinefabriek’s new work Engel. Norris hosts the excellent Toneshift.net blog out of Ft. Worth, Texas. We’re posting both reviews on both blogs. Please check out his work. TJ’s Take The record (due August 15th) consists of nine reasonably short tracks, and…
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