Steve Smith
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New death-ambient hip-hop drone by 3:33, who cite Yoshi Wada, Terry Riley, Whitehouse and La Monte Young in the press release for their forthcoming 2CD album, Bicameral Brain, due October 29 on Parallel Thought. From the group's label bio: Too frequently, experimental music has automatically fallen under the generic label of “new” or “different”. Perhaps…
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Keith Fullerton Whitman, electronic-music maven and proprietor of the early-electronica archival label Creel Pone and the brilliant avant-music e-tailer Mimaroglu Music Service, makes everyone’s morning with a new, very personal project uploaded to Soundcloud this morning. Here, in his own words, the explanation of Greatest Hits: On the eve of my 30th birthday, I began…
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Celer – 日没 Nichibotsu (Bandcamp) Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Athenaeum: 2009–2012 (Hooker Vision < Bandcamp) Xiphiidae – Iiustus (Object Tapes) Tuluum Shimmering – Inside the Mountain (Sheepscar Light Industrial) Nova Scotian Arms – Sacred Drift (Sonic Meditations) Olivia Block – Pure Gaze (Sedimental) Olivia Block – Mobius Fuse (Sedimental) Olivia Block – Heave…
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&amp;amp;lt;a href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years" _mce_href="http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/collected-works-vol-1-the-moog-years"&amp;amp;gt;Collected Works Vol. 1 The Moog Years by M. Geddes Gengras&amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;gt; Compilations aren't generally things I spend much time recommending. But in the case of an artist as madly prolific as California synth muso M. Geddes Gengras, Collected Works Vol. 1, a new anthology from Mexican label Umor Rex, is a godsend. Subtitled…
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Fred Frith and Evelyn GlennieMoers Festival, May 19, 2013
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Fall and all attendant memoriesCrowd the day with unrelated historiesEach year leaves its unresolving fantasiesTo hang around each cornerHang around each street. Thick with ghosts, the wind whips round in circuitriesCarrying words as strangers exchange pleasantriesDo they intrude upon your private reveriesAs they meet you on each cornerMeet you on each street. Watch for daily…
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Visting Houston about a month ago to clean out the last lingering dregs of my adolescent bedroom before the old family house is sold, I came upon these curios of my high-school existence. Trust me, I blew my entire first paycheck from my first real job on a new cassette deck. But before that happened,…
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Celer – In Escaping Lakes (Slow Flow Rec < Bandcamp) Derek Rogers – Perepetia (A Beard of Snails) Nick Hennies – Duets for Solo Snare Drum (Weighter) Paul Lawler – Opus (VCO Recordings) Hawkwind – Onward (Four Winds Media) James Horner – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan OST (Retrograde Records) Mathieu Ruhlmann +…
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<a href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1" _mce_href="http://steamroom.bandcamp.com/album/steamroom-1">Steamroom 1 by Jim O&#39;Rourke</a> A hefty, heady trove of new and recent music by Jim O'Rourke has just turned up on Bandcamp, priced inexpensively and available in a variety of file formats, lossless and otherwise. I've just bought Steamroom 1, a 2012 recording O'Rourke pressed up for his recent Japanese tour with…
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Charlemagne Palestine – Strumming Music (New Note) Eliane Radigue – Adnos I-III (Important) Innercity – Träumata (Cosmic Winnetou) Creation VI – Akroamatikos (Cosmic Winnetou) Jason Lescalleet – Archaic Architecture (NNA Tapes) Kevin Drumm – Earrach (self-released > Bandcamp) Catherine Lamb – periphery (Engraved Glass) Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins – A Scarcity of Miracles (Panegyric) Sylvian/Fripp…
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Günter Schlienz – The Sardinian Tapes (Earth Mantra) Elliott Carter – 90+; Piano Sonata; Night Fantasies – Charles Rosen (Bridge) Elliott Carter – Night Fantasies – Ursula Oppens (Cedille) Elliott Carter – Piano Sonata – Paul Jacobs (Nonesuch) Elliott Carter – Night Fantasies – Gilbert Kalish (live 2008.11.20, broadcast recording) John Zorn – Carny –…
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Today's required listening, from Max Roach's 1981 LP, Chattahoochee Red. Not many musicians could pull this off with such decorum, gravity and conviction. The album is rare now, evidently, and is worth tracking down, not least because the band involved – Odean Pope, Cecil Bridgewater and Calvin Hill – was one of Roach's best, and…
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Gary Numan – Dance (Beggars Banquet) Various Artists – I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age in America, 1950-1990 (Light in the Attic; due Oct. 29) Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe (Dead Oceans) Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber; Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Concert Music for String Orchestra…
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You might know Anne Guthrie's name from Sinter, the excellent CD she recorded with Richard Kamerman for the ErstAEU label, which is where I first learned of and heard this Brooklyn-baed composer, improviser and acoustician. Maybe you've heard her previous recordings on Engraved Glass or Copy for Your Records. I haven't, which is why I'm…
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Gary Numan – Splinter (Songs from a Broken Mind) (Machine Music; due Oct. 15) Steve Moore – Positronic Neural Pathways (VCO Recordings) King Crimson – El Mocambo, Toronto, Ontario, Oct. 22, 1981 (DGMlive) Antoine Beuger – Sixteen Stanzas on Stillness and Music Unheard – Greg Stuart (l'innomable) Gary Numan – Disconnection (Sanctuary) Gary Numan –…
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Donna Lewis, by Marvin Joseph Donna LewisTime Out New YorkAug 15–21, 2013 Any self-respecting pop star would be delirious to have a hit like “I Love You Always Forever,” an irresistible bit of romantic treacle that launched Welsh singer Donna Lewis to global success in 1996. Same goes for “At the Beginning,” the uplifting…
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Christina Vantzou, by Julie Calbert Christina Vantzou + CC CaranaTime Out New YorkAug 8–14, 2013 The ability to write music that can seize attention or fade into the background equally well is a unique skill, and Christina Vantzou has it in abundance—no surprise for a creator who started in visual art, film and animation. Originally…
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Jordan Klassen (Photograph: Rachel Pick) Live preview: Jordan KlassenTime Out New YorkAug 1–7, 2013 “Let me give, let me talk, let me live in your pillow / Kill your fear, whisper words in your ear,” Jordan Klassen intones reassuringly on “Go to Me.” Slipping easily between intimacy and grandiosity, the track is the first single from Repentance,…
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