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We lost another great artist last week. Touch announced today that British artist Philip Jeck has passed. The 69-year-old turntablist and sound artist produced 12 albums and collaborated on several others with Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit and Gavin Bryars. Jeck’s first album was released by Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding’s Touch label in 1995. “Jon…
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A pair of contemporary music giants are re-releasing a long-lost 2003 recording on Mar. 18, previously available only as a CD-R. Just 10 copies were produced of Recorded Yesterday and on sale Today. They were snatched up by attendees at the third Mo-Fo Antifolk Festival in Mains d’Oeuvres, Saint-Ouen. The duo in question is Eugene…
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Biliana Voutchkova has announced the launch of DUOS2022, a series of collaborative releases and live performances. Relative Pitch Records, Studio Rainer Spehl and Initiative Neue Musik Berlin will support this year’s series. I’m starting the year with a good deal of inspiration for this new project,” she writes in the notes accompanying The Emerald Figurines.…
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Poland’s Unsound label will donate 100% of its Bandcamp and Shopify sales this week to Salam Lab, a Kraków-based organization working to help Ukrainian refugees. Unsound describes itself as an “amorphous global-minded festival and creative platform.” In addition to the label, Unsound produces a multimedia festival that has been hosted in 30 different cities. That…
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Is it possible to fully appreciate spoken-word art presented in a language you don’t understand? The short (and obvious) answer is no. But as this six-disc collection of work by composer/musician Denis Frajerman and author Antoine Volodine illustrates, that’s no reason to turn away from the work. The two French artists have worked together for…
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This year marked the fifth anniversary of what was originally known (by a very small few) as the Badd Press Blog. That somewhat regrettable handle is behind us, thankfully. As is another year of COVID-19 awfulness. This latest variant is a blow to be sure. But it is also a reminder of what keeps us…
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