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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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If you live far enough from the equator, you know that a percentage of your days on this planet will be spent uncomfortably cold. Here in Toronto, the first three months of each year deliver a blast of snow and ice sustained by persistent sub-freezing thermometer readouts. It is not all bad though. Winter can…
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