New this week
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The best from this week’s in-box. Esther Bourdages – Listening Session, live concerts, figure skating (Lost Children Net Label) Bruno Duplant & David Vélez – Tell Me About the Outside (LINE Sound Art Editiions) Petra Hermanova – Lapilli (Original Film Score) (42far) Ivo Perelman, Elliott Sharp, Cyro Baptista – Triacontagon (defkaz) Seabuckthorn – Never the…
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The best from this week’s in-box. A Lily – wake:sleep [20th anniversary edition] (Phantom Limb) Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie – Cold Shoulder (Futura Resistenza) Fax + Braulio Lam – Mixed Signals III (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) Audrey Lauro, Christian Pruvost, Peter Orins – Dans-sons as we are (Circum-Disc) Mukqs – Juckport (Hausu Mountain) Tujiko Noriko…
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The Moderns Selects
Asmus Tietchens, beatriz ferreyra, Bertoncini · Kocher · Lehn, Booker Stardrum, dirk serries, Evan Shornstein, fletina, Francis Heery, Galán / Spieth / Guentner, Grid Ila, Gustavo Cortiñas, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten (Exit) Knarr, Innovative Landscapes Laboratory, Jim O’Rourke, Jos Smolders, Kühne/Bigoni/Solborg, kevin press, Lifted, Manja Ristić, Meredith Beardmore, missing scenes, Musica Mosaica, Nicolas Debade, Olivier Alary, Susana Santos Silva, the moderns, these liminal days, variant, vasco trillaThe best from this week’s in-box Olivier Alary – Vestiges (Line Sound Art Editions) Meredith Beardmore – The Long Blue Horizon (Made Now Music) Bertoncini · Kocher · Lehn – Critical Values (Bruit Editions) Gustavo Cortiñas – The Drum Also Sings / El Tambor También Canta (Desafio Candente Records) Nicolas Debade – Fragments of Soaring…
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We lost two major figures in American music history this week. The great saxophonist Sonny Rollins, at 95, and MC Rob Base, at just 59. The coincidence is an opportunity to recognize two of the country’s most important art forms at a time when its reputation for making the world a better place is in…
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People come to ambient music from a variety of directions. Many reach a stage in their life when they look to entertainment for a sense of calm and tranquility. Others gravitate to it as a progression of their interest in beat-oriented electronic music. A third group embraces it like they do all genres — it’s…
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Drummer Charles Downs was a mainstay of the New York City free jazz scene in the 1970s, mainly as a member of Ensemble Muntu with saxophonist Jemeel Moondoc. In those days, he went by Rashid Bakr — a tribute to fellow drummer Rashid Ali who performed with Sonny Rollins and both John and Alice Coltrane. In…
