Steve Smith
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Jason Moran – Valiant Hearts: Coming Home (Original Game Score) (Ubisoft Music; 2023) Kaisa's Machine – Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music; due July 7, 2023) Wil Bolton – Like Floating Leaves (laaps; 2023) Russell Burden & Craig Tattersall – Diagenesis (laaps; 2023) Ned Milligan…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Marco Magri – Playing for Keeps (Superpang; 2023) King Crimson – ATSV Halle, Saarbrücken, Germany, Nov. 8, 1973 (DGMLive; 2023) Milford Graves with Arthur Doyle & Hugh Glover – Children of the Forest (Black Editions; 2023, recorded 1976) Peter Brötzmann/Keiji Haino Duo –…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Robert Rich – Travelers' Cloth (Soundscape; 2023) Günter Schlienz – Sterne über der Stadt (ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ/Solid State; 2017/2023) Colin Andrew Sheffield – Images (Elevator Bath; due June 16, 2023) MV & EE – Green Ark (Child of Microtones; 2023) Claire Chase – Density 2036,…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Meredith Bates – Tesseract (phonometrograph; due June 2, 2023) King Crimson – Auditorium, West Palm Beach, FL, June 21, 1973 (DGMLive; 2023) Anton Bruckner – Symphony No. 4 in E-flat (1888 version) – ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra/Markus Poschner (Capriccio; due May 5,…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Kyle Gann – Whispers – David Sytkowski (self-released; 2023) Ahmad Jamal – At the Pershing: But Not for Me (Argo; 1958) Tangerine Dream – Pilots of Purple Twilight: The Virgin Recordings 1980-1983 (Virgin; 2020) Wild Up – Julius Eastman, Vol. 1: Femenine (New…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Kevin Good – Trails (2019-2022) (Sawyer Spaces; 2023) Sergio Cote Barco – MÚSICA SACRA (Sawyer Spaces; 2023) María Alejandra Bulla – to be noise and dance (Sawyer Spaces; 2023) Garrison Gerard – Resonance Ecology (Sawyer Spaces; 2023) More Eaze – Eternity (Longform Editions;…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Kiss – "War Machine" and "Creatures of the Night" from Off the Soundboard: Live in Poughkeepsie 1984 (UMe; due April 7, 2023) Kiss – Off the Soundboard: Live in Des Moines 1977 (UMe; 2022) Kiss – Off the Soundboard: Live at Donington 1996…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3 in D minor – Martha Lipton, Boys' Choir of the Church of the Transfiguration, Chorus of the Schola Cantorum, New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (Columbia/Sony Classical; 1962/2009) Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 3 in D minor – Petra…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Steve Roach & Vidna Obmana – Live in Portland, Oregon 11-09-2000 (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2023) Wadada Leo Smith – Fire Illuminations (Kabell; due March 31, 2023) King Crimson – Winter Gardens, Bournemouth, England, March 24, 1973 (DGMLive; 2023) King Crimson – Civic Auditorium,…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Various artists – Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 4 (Somm; 2023) Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra – Arthur Whittemore, Jack Lowe, New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra/Dimitri Mitropoulos; Symphony No. 8 in D minor…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Claire Rousay – wishing for (lipstick and dollar bills) demo (Bandcamp subscriber exclusive; 2023) Kate Carr – making do #7 guitar, ebow, jar of beads, pumice, gong (self-released; 2023) Jaffar Hussain Randhawa – Guldasta (honiunhoni; 2023) Thomas Adès – Dante – Los Angeles…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… John Tilbury – 31.8.16 (Otoroku; 2016) Anna Clyne – Mythologies – BBC Symphony Orchestra/Marin Alsop, Sakari Oramo, Andrew Litton, André de Ridder (Avie; 2020) Masquerade; This Midnight Hour; The Seamstress – Jennifer Koh, Irene Buckley; Night Ferry; <<rewind<< Ingvar Lidholm – Poesis –…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Ornette Coleman – Ornette at 12, Crisis to Man on the Moon Revisited (Impulse!/ezz-thetics, 1969-72/2023) Dead & Company – Playing in the Sand, Moon Palace, Riviera Maya, Cancún, Mexico, Jan. 14, 2023 (Nugs.net; 2023) Éliane Radigue – Occam Delta XV – Quatuor Bozzini…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Bob Dylan – Still Waiting (Can't Wait 1997–2019) (ROIO compilation; 2019) Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini – Haydn 2032, Vol. 2: Il Filosofo (Alpha; 2015) Franz Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 46 in B; Symphony No. 22 in E-flat ("The Philosopher"); Wilhelm Friedemann Bach…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… >>> Decibel Magazine Top 40 of 2022, Nos. 19-6 Dream Unending – Song of Salvation (20 Buck Spin; 2022) Phobophilic – Enveloping Absurdity (Prosthetic; 2022) Negative Plane – The Pact… (The Ajna Offensive; 2022) Sumerlands – Dreamkiller (Relapse; 2022) Terror – Pain Into…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Dave Douglas Quintet – Songs of Ascent: Book 1 – Degrees (Greenleaf Music; 2022) Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell – One More, Please (Intakt; 2022) Guranfoe – 10th Anniversary Specials – Night 7 (Featured Guests) (self-released; 2022) King Crimson – Meltdown: Live in Mexico (DGM;…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Guranfoe – Gumbo Gumbo (echodelick; 2022) Qasim Naqvi – Inaugural Music – s t a r g a z e (Transgressive; 2020) Guillaume Connesson – Lost Horizon – Brussels Philharmonic/Stéphane Denève (Deutsche Grammophon; 2019) Les cités de Lovecraft; A kind of Trane –…
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Raphael Payare (Photograph courtesy Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal) My contributions to the latest installment of 7 picks a week, the arts and culture guide I compile weekly for Gothamist. See mysticism and melancholy through a world-famous painter's eyes "Exodus," an exhibition of recent works by the German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer, is so big…
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A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears… Ustad Noor Bakhsh – Jingul (honiunhoni; 2022) Tilth – Renewal (cachedmedia; 2022) Suzi Analogue – Infinite Zonez (Disciples; 2022) Phil Lesh & Friends – Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, Nov. 13, 1999 (ROIO; 1999) Bob Dylan – Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford,…
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Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Photograph courtesy of the artists) My contributions to the latest installment of 7 picks a week, the arts and culture guide I compile weekly for Gothamist. See how the Great Migration inspired a cellist to make a move Already known as one of the finest young cellists of his generation,…
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