kevin press
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Released: 2017 Label: Independent Genre: Contemporary Fair warning. A little more than three and a half minutes into this darkly foreboding record, you will be startled by a grotesque, inhaled scream. The fact that this occurs at the front end of an opening piece entitled “Angels” may cause you to wonder how such a terrible sound…
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Released: 2011 (originally released 1984-1991) Label: 4AD Genre: Alternative This Mortal Coil, the subject of a new comprehensive box set, was in the public eye an encapsulation of 4AD’s sound and style spread out over three albums and associated singles and one-offs. And though founder Ivo Watts-Russell didn’t want This Mortal Coil to be seen as…
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Contemporary music from everywhere: su dance110 – Stille Oper 0100 0.00 p.o.p. (psychology of perception) – galactic grace 4.02 Panghalina – Whale Dance 21.58 Phill Niblock / Modelo62 & Scordatura ensemble – Exploratory, Rhine Version, Looking for Daniel 29.20 CaraduSanto – Miércoles 49.53 Grand River & Sofie Birch – 7pm melantonia 54.43 Osmanthus – Cutting…
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Released: 2021 Label: Independent Genre: Electroacoustic Tifold af Fri Form og Fælles Motiv revolves around the sounds of a new, self-built synthesizer depicted on the cover, the clock wheel sequencer, mounted on a stand with a crank handle and a series of small metal points attached to the wheel’s body. As the wheel is rotated, magnets…
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Allison Burik – Realm (Independent) Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory (Elevator Bath) p.o.p. (psychology of perception) – Alien Stewardess (Zappak) su dance110 – Stille Oper (Feral Note) TON meets Sarah Davachi – at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (impakt Köln)
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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…
