kevin press
-
Ali Balighi is a Tehran-born composer, sound designer and sound engineer. He is at Texas Tech University currently, studying for a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition. His new LP lands May 3 on Noise à Noise. It’s entitled Qaf Mount Ballet. Tell us about the new album. It comprises 18 distinct movements. Drawing inspiration…
-
This week’s faves: Michelle Moeller – Late Morning (AKP Recordings) James Rushford – Turzets (Blank Form Editions) Matthew Shipp Trio – New Concepts in Piano Trio Jazz (ESP-Disk’) Thollem – Worlds in a Life, Two (ESP-Disk’) Various Artists – Noise of Cologne 3 (reiheM)
-
Released: 1975 Label: Kling Klang / EMI Genre: Contemporary Instead of maintaining an icy detachment from its popularity, which might have been the best attitude to assume, Kraftwerk has attempted to duplicate Autobahn’s success with a concept album. Like most concept albums, it’s loaded with dead spots. Rolling Stone
-
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…
-
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…
-
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
