Library Recommendation
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Released: 2019 Label: Warm Winters Ltd. Genre: Contemporary Three generations contribute music to Everyone is here, as does a childhood home, thanks to Lindgren’s discovery of old family tapes. To a musician, these might be even more valuable than photo albums: aural snapshots with which one might duet, as Natalie Cole once did with her father. While there’s…
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Released: 2021 Label: humo internacional Genre: Contemporary [T]his Territoire release explores the nature of objects falling through a vertical structure with physical data of these individual falls translated into a graphical score and being fed into an array of granular synthesizers afterwards, a highly conceptual approach which finally results in a brooding, claustrophobic arrangement of granular, electrical buzzes…
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Released: 2018 Label: Independent Genre: Contemporary Just as there is a contrast between electronic and acoustic instruments, SPIRIT RADIO delivers a mixture of quiet sweetness and penetrating, difficult music, writing and vocals. Their ability to fuse all of that into this rich, eminently listenable 58-minute recording is no small accomplishment. The Moderns
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Released: 2018 Label: Noton Genre: Contemporary Though routinely gorgeous, her work is rarely relaxing, rarely comfortable. Atkinson actively situates her compositions in the intimate, unruly liminal space between comfort and discomfort, quiet and disquiet. This remains true of her new record, the To fully appreciate Ryuichi Sakamoto’s latest collaboration with German minimalist Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto),…
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Released: 2019 Label: Moone Records Genre: Contemporary While the hypothetical range of what the listener might expect from a record of free-improvised guitar-playing is understandably gigantic, it’s not very often that what is heard so easily navigates across such a vast terrain. In their most often observed environments (Dorji’s relentlessly frequent solo and collaborative releases; Dieterich…
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Released: 2017 Label: Rottenman Editions Genre: Contemporary The three pieces come at you gently, but they’re powerful nonetheless. The noise elements he incorporates are understated, and especially effective. The album’s final track is the almost 17-minute long “Vulnerable Petal.” Yi says it “shows us the fragility of life, emptiness after the chaos and the uncertainty of…
The Moderns 