kevin press
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This week’s faves: Ewart Asplund Ricks Trio – Emphatic Now (Neuma Records) Albert Cirera & Florian Stoffner – Mow (Sirulita Records) Ian Mikyska & Fredrik Rasten – Music for Sixth-tone Harmonium (Warm Winters Ltd.) Playfield: Carter, Muhr, Ishito, Plaks, Namenwirth, Takahashi, Swanson, Panikkar – Magic Heart (577 Records) Roman Rofalski – Fractal (Oscillations)
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Karen Vogt on music, grief and the sea. Her latest is Waterlog, the product of three improvisational recording sessions. It’s due Feb. 9 via Nite Hive. Penelope Trappes’ cassette imprint is “designed as a label run by – and for – women and gender expansive artists to allow the free exploration of their approach to…
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Released: 2019 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Genre: Sound Art Guðnadóttir has channeled the likes of Brian Eno by recording individual sounds from various parts of the reactor and then putting them into a computer program to alter their pitches before putting them all together for a thrillingly real soundtrack. Not a little of the soundtrack, the WHOLE thing, is…
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Released: 1975 as two separate LPs (Reissued together in 2020) Label: Blank Forms Genre: Jazz This is avant-garde in the proper sense, residing at the limits of music, although of course, for some, that is its appeal. Jazz Journal
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Released: 2017 Label: Ropeadope Genre: Jazz Centennial Trilogy, from 2017, commemorates the first-ever jazz recordings, and his most recent studio album as a leader, “Ancestral Recall,” attempts to decolonize sound, connecting styles and rhythms from Africa and its diaspora. Chief Adjuah continues his experiments in sonic and aesthetic integration during a residency at this haven for…
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Contemporary music from everywhere. Jordan Munson – Repair 0.00 Matt Sargent – Sixth Illumination 10.02 Francesco Bosa – I misteri, parte 3 30.57 Fallen – Gentle Ghosts, Gentle Darkness 42.06 Mike Sheridan – TOLD/UNTOLD 48.20 Michał Wiśniowski – Mirror 52.48 Brûlez les meubles – estompe 1.00.58 Flavigula – Is Kon Zan Fek Molju Koz Liz…
