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Five new releases you need to know: BOTANY – Portal Orphanage (Western Vinyl) Forest Robots – Horst & Graben (Elm Records) Ezekiel Honig – Falling Close to Memory (Independent) Connor Kissel – The Forest of Things Lost and Found (Somewherecold Records) Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8 (Warp Records) Plus one, from The Moderns archive: Olivia…

Five new releases you need to know: kj – saturnalia (Polar Seas Recordings) Mesías Maiguashca – Música para cinta magnética (​+​) instrumentos (1967​-​1989) (Buh Records) Frédéric D. Oberland – Même Soleil (IIKKI) Yui Onodera – Suisei (Dragon’s Eye Recordings) Paper Relics – Emersion (Whitelabrecs) Plus one, from The Moderns archive: Masahiro Sugaya – Horizon Vol.…

Why do so few improvised recordings feature vocals? Here’s a theory. Part of improv’s appeal is the vulnerability of the artists involved. On-stage or in-studio, it requires a degree of self-assuredness that few of us can muster. This is what’s so often misunderstood about improvisational performance. The absence of written music does not make it…

So that this blog is better aligned to my radio program, I’ve rebranded it as The Moderns. Going forward, please send music submissions to modernslove@gmail.com.