kevin press
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Released: 2017 Label: Compunctio Genre: Contemporary The secularization of Christmas music produced some of the best, most evocative popular music of the last century. The genre’s longevity is not simply the result of radio and television programming, the songs we hear all around us at this time of year deserve their place in the mainstream. Those…
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Released: 2020 Label: Unseen Worlds Genre: New Classical A big, beautiful avant-garde cabaret in slow motion; also Italian. The Moderns
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Released: 2020 Label: Independent Genre: Contemporary A must-have for any serious musique concrète collector: France’s Lionel Marchetti has been a major force in the music’s modern development – this nearly four-hour collection captures him at the top of his game. The Moderns
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Released: 2020 Label: Sofa Music Genre: Contemporary This is an album that sits neatly into that contemporary music space that combines elements of both jazz and new classical music. It’s a thing the Europeans seem to be out front on; they have been getting this right for years. The Moderns
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Released: 2021 Label: Liburia Records Genre: Contemporary “These works were not initially intended to sit together as an album. They are more a collection of orphaned works covering a decade’s practice, drawn back together because they all explore site-specificity in one way or another. Much of my initial impetus, the compositional arcs I had been exploring,…
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Released: 2021 Label: Editions Mego Genre: Contemporary Listen to some of it, listen to all of it at once. (Use headphones.) Dig into information geometry and machine listening while doing so, if you’re so inclined. Refer back to the trilogy of text-sound pieces Hecker has produced with the Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani. The Moderns
The Moderns 