Library Recommendation
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Released: 2018 Label: empreintes DIGITALes Genre: Contemporary Electroacoustic music is most powerful when it’s in the hands of an imaginative producer. It’s one thing to bring together a palette of interesting sounds. It’s another thing to piece them together in a manner that draws out thought-provoking contrasts and surprising connections. Nano-Cosmos has plenty of all this. The Moderns
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Released: 2005 and 2007 (re-released in 2020) Label: Dragon’s Eye Recordings Genre: Contemporary … simply perfect. The Moderns
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Released: 1986 Label: Musique Brut Genre: Contemporary Some of Revell’s best known film scores include Dead Calm (1989), The Crow (1994), Street Fighter (1994), Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), The Craft (1996), The Saint (1997), The Negotiator (1998), Bride of Chucky (1998), Titan A.E. (2000), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Daredevil (2003), Freddy vs. Jason (2003), and Sin City (2005). He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director David Twohy, having scored Below (2002) and the Riddick franchise. He…
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Released: 2008 (remastered and re-released in 2018) Label: Two Acorns Genre: Contemporary This was one of the final projects for Celer which is now a solo project for American composer living in Japan, Will Long when his then wife, Danielle Baquet, was still involved as a duo prior to her untimely passing at age 26 in 2009. Their sound was uniquely refreshing…
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Released: 2017 Label: Superior Viaduct Genre: Contemporary For half a century, Tony Conrad was anonymous by association. The composer, violinist, filmmaker, mathematician, teacher, and playful provocateur at large made essential contributions to half-dozen vital American art movements. Conrad, who died last year, helped organize the principals of the Velvet Underground, a band he named but then declined to join. Pitchfork
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Released: 2017 Label: Störung Genre: Contemporary The fact that the bell tone heard intermittently throughout “The Broken Glass v1,” the opening piece on Mia Zabelka & Asférico’s fine new album, will make you anxious about unanswered texts piling up on your iPhone is more of a commentary on our mobile-obsessed lives than it is on the…
