Steve Smith
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I've written about the music-sales website/service Bandcamp so often, here and on social-media channels, that I run the risk of sounding like a shill, I know. But I can't help it: I just love the browsing, streaming, shopping and sharing capabilities it delivers. Early on, my admiration was slightly mitigated by the idea that even…
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New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, November 14, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2013 A brilliant local premiere for Christopher Rouse's gorgeous Oboe Concerto by Liang Wang, Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, bracketed by rock-solid renditions of Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Also sprach Zarathustra. This was the kind of night…
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Marcos Balter, by Kat Keers Classical Playlist: András Schiff, Janine Jansen, Rebekah Heller and MoreThe New York Times ArtsBeat, Nov. 13, 2013 A playlist of a different kind than the sort this blog is known for, and an attempt at solving the recent problem of too many worthy recordings and not enough space in…
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Rangefinder – Night Ride (Bun Tapes) Son Lux – Lanterns (Joyful Noise) Tim Hecker – Virgins (Kranky) Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner – signs, games + messages (Cedille) Billy Gomberg – Waiting in Poor Lighting (Avant Archive > Bandcamp) Juan Blanco – Nuestro Tiempo/Our Time (Innova) GE Stinson – masters of the abstract (an homage)…
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Green Heights by Toshimaru Nakamura + Ken Ikeda + Tomoyoshi Date There's no reason why I should be surprised to find anything on Bandcamp nowadays… and anyone who knows me even a little, in person or online, also knows what an avid ’camper I am. Still, I admit that I was pleasantly taken aback to…
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<a href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage" _mce_href="http://gestinson.bandcamp.com/album/masters-of-the-abstract-an-homage">masters of the abstract (an homage) by g.e.stinson</a> Left coast guitar artist GE Stinson, a founding member of seminal New Age/fusion ensemble Shadowfax who moved onward to all manner of rich, gripping projects, has just reposted this 2011 "homage to some of the masters of abstract jazz and improvisation." I was going to…
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The New York Times building, by Richard Perry/The New York Times I've promised myself for quite some time now that I'd finally get around to catching up with posting my writing for the Times here with a couple of omnibus posts, and now I'm finally making the time for it. Here's the first, covering everything…
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Rebekah Heller – 100 names (Tundra) Phyllis Chen – Little Things (New Focus) Motion Sickness of Time Travel – Ballade for a Harvest Moon (Hooker Vision) Grant Evans – Roman Persuasion (VAALD) Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet – The Invisible Curse (Glistening Examples < Bandcamp) William Winant – Five American Percussion Pieces (Poon Village) Katie Gately –…
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&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href=&amp;amp;amp;quot;http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/eva-maria-houben-piano-music&amp;amp;amp;quot; _mce_href=&amp;amp;amp;quot;http://recordings.irritablehedgehog.com/album/eva-maria-houben-piano-music&amp;amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Eva-Maria Houben: Piano Music by R. Andrew Lee&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt; It's not all bad news today; it only seems that way. The world's a mess, but all is right with pianist R. Andrew Lee, who continues to blaze deep trails into the music of major minimalists past and present. New today on the Irritable…
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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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