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Toronto hip hop producer Roam has been developing a taste for garage music in recent years, and has a fine new LP to show for it. To prepare for a review I submitted to exclaim.ca, Roam and I traded emails. Here’s an edited version of our Q&A. Tell me about your background. I’ve been producing…
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Mathias Delplanque is back with a new live recording, laid down in May of last year with his KEDA partner E’Joung-Ju during the fifth edition of the Festival Printemps Coréen. Live at Cosmopolis is a spacious, meandering improv piece that features Delplanque on live sampling and bass and E’Joung-Ju on a traditional six-stringed wooden Korean…
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To perform even competently at more than one instrument is a tremendous achievement. It is another thing altogether to produce equally engaging music in two separate genres. Hanoi’s Nhung Nguyen is one of those rare talents who can do exactly that. She produces compelling new classical works at her piano under her own name. She…
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Haiku poetry is more often associated with its simplicity than its beauty. A five-syllable line, followed by a seven-syllable line, followed by another five-syllable line. Poetry so easy anyone can write it. The Japanese form dates back centuries. And it probably won’t surprise you to learn that there’s more to it than a beat count.…
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Nobody goes to a metal show wearing earth tones. Not on purpose. Presumably there have been unwitting hippies who’ve wandered into the wrong bar on the wrong night, etc. etc. But we can safely assume that Seth Chrisman and Nathan McLaughlin have chosen a universal truth as their new album’s name. And like all respectable…
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Perhaps it’s a bit early to be thinking in terms of best-of-the-year lists for 2018. Of course, great albums are just as likely to land in January or February as they are in any other month. But common sense dictates that we contain our enthusiasm until at least the spring. This new album from Kuala…
The Moderns 