Articles By Kevin Press
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Various Artists LNOE 100 Published Feb 13, 2019DJ Sasha's Last Night On Earth enterprise has been a solid purveyor of beats since its launch in 2011. The label, podcast and regular party...
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RY X Unfurl Published Feb 13, 2019Australian singer-songwriter Ry Cuming has led something of a charmed professional existence. Since landing a Jive Records deal for his 2010...
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Mark de Clive-Lowe Heritage Published Feb 11, 2019For those who recognize Mark de Clive-Lowe's name from this or that compilation disc, his new straight-up jazz effort is the most pleasant s...
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Finlay Shakespeare Domestic Economy Published Feb 04, 2019What to make of an album, released in the dead of winter 2019, that sounds like a collection of 1983 club bangers? What to make of a vocalis...
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Orphan Ann The Practice of Surrender Published Jan 25, 2019This debut from duo Sofia Al Rammal Sturdza and Anja Enerud aims high with electronic drones, samples and a dramatic mix of chants, screams...
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Laurie Spiegel Unseen Worlds Published Jan 21, 2019The story behind this big, beautiful album is as extraordinary as the music itself. A year before releasing her debut, The Expanding Univers...
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Dolphin Midwives Liminal Garden Published Jan 16, 2019Portland, OR's Sage Elaine Fisher has delivered an elegant, purposefully innovative recording that features vocals, harp and a healthy dose...
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Lubomyr Melnyk Fallen Trees Published Dec 10, 2018Lubomyr Melnyk continues to produce exquisitely beautiful new classical work, earning an audience for his "continuous music" technique that...
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bod [包家巷] The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染] Published Dec 06, 2018Having replaced the onslaught of sharp edges that made up Limpid Fear with more dulcet tones and vocals, Nicholas Zhu has delivered a bod re...
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Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine Between Systems and Grounds Published Nov 30, 2018Paula Matthusen and Olivia Valentine's collaboration on this project dates back to 2016 when the duo booked a live performance in Budapest,...
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Various Pop Ambient 2019 Published Nov 27, 2018Kompakt's Pop Ambient series returns with its 19th iteration of a compilation they've delivered every year since 2001. The 13-track package...
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Prins Thomas / Various Smalltown Supersound 25: Movement of the Free Spirit Published Nov 27, 2018Give Joakim Haugland credit. Not only has he managed to keep his Smalltown Supersound label a going concern for a quarter-century, he's foun...
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Xenofox & Joke Lanz Alarm Published Nov 27, 2018Pauline Oliveros was only partly serious when she coined the term "deep listening" 30 years ago. The American composer, accordionist and ele...
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Emanuele Errante The Evanescence of a Thousand Colors Published Nov 23, 2018There is a level of sophistication in Emanuele Errante's work that rewards attentive listeners with optimism. The Italian composer gives us...
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Sofheso Archive: Collected Recordings 2014-2017 Published Nov 19, 2018It won't be long before we're all the subject of a neatly packaged retrospective. Given the amount of digital content we produce over the co...
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Ingrid Laubrock Contemporary Chaos Practices Published Nov 14, 2018Known primarily as a jazz saxophonist, Ingrid Laubrock has delivered a pair of new classical works on a sparkling new disc called Contempora...
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Oberman Knocks Trilate Shift Published Nov 13, 2018Nigel Truswell has a new double-LP release for aperture records, his first for the label since 2014. Trilate Shift is an austere, at times d...
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Charles Mingus Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden Published Nov 01, 2018Credit DJ Amir Abdullah with unearthing what for most of us would be the discovery of a lifetime: Five two-track master tapes featuring the...
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Ian William Craig Thresholder Published Nov 01, 2018Vancouver's Ian William Craig has produced the ambient album of the year. Thresholder is his first release in 18 months, but its story stret...
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Yoshinori Hayashi Ambivalence Published Oct 23, 2018There is a natural connection between electronic music produced for dance floors and for concert halls. Because the former is so beat-centri...