Library Recommendation
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Released: 2002/2003 Label: Temporary Residence Ltd. Genre: Minimalism It wasn’t until the summer of 2001 that Basinski stumbled into the work that brought him out of obscurity. He had decided to start transferring the loops he’d made in the early eighties to CDs, for posterity. Some of the tapes were in terrible shape, and as…
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Released: 2015 Label: Brainfeeder Genre: Jazz What The Epic does come to sound like, over the course of its significant running time, is a generational intervention – an educational tool that widens the definition of styles that fall under “jazz classicism.” With his writing for string sections and chorus, Washington even flirts with that most dreaded of…
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Released: 1995 Label: Improbable Music Genre: Contemporary MacDonald’s range is enormous, drifting to and fro between crystal clear whispers and heart-wrenching wails. It’s like listening to someone spin gold. Venue
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Released: 2020 Label: SN Variations Genre: New Classical Aisha Orazbayeva, a brilliant London-based Kazakh violinist, performs contemporary works with expressive assurance and deploys avant-garde techniques that elicit a jolting freshness from the early-music canon. Those stylistic approaches converge on “Music for Violin Alone,” her return to action after two years of maternity leave. Yes, the title…
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Released: 2019 Label: Shelter Press 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 beguiling The Flower And The Vessel, a work made not “while” pregnant, she asserts,…
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Released: 2018 Label: Denovali Genre: Contemporary This brutally dazzling new album is the third piece of a trilogy that began in 2012 with I’m So In Love I Almost Forgot I Survived A Disaster. Part two followed three years later with Like a Pack of Hounds. Prairie’s standard choice of instruments differs from what we’re used to from…
The Moderns 