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Nate Wooley's childhood memories delineate a kind of nostalgic pastoral idyll. Growing up in a fishing village in Oregon, his ...

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Valeot: Label Profile
It seems one of the eternal paradoxes of the experimental scene: To win over the ...
2010-07-28
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Coso: A Modular Approach to Performance
Post-Punk, as a musical movement, was over before it had really begun. For roughly five ...
2010-07-27
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Off Land: Capturing tiny layers of space and time
One would probably imagine a sonic revisitation of one's wedding day to be jubilant and ...
2010-07-13
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Rod Cooper: Noise found in Nature & a Backpack of Gadgets
The thought of eliminating the distinction between horizontal and vertical composition and going three dimensional ...
2010-07-08
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Hummingbird: Looking beyond Our Fearful Symmetry
In capable hands, music is never just about sound, it is also about ideas. So ...
2010-07-06

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Celer: Love and Quietude.

The duo of Danielle Baquet-Long and Will Long were more than just a highly talented Ambient-act. Composed of finely-woven drones, discreet field recordings and the gently-distilled harmonics of acoustic instruments, their music was poetry expressing itself through sound. Their rise ...

2009-08-08

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Very enjoyable meeting with @thomasraukamp at <starbucks <hamburg. Watch his upcoming projects!

Off to Hamburg now to meet up with Thomas from Karlrecords and @thomasraukamp Will meet a good old friend in the train as well...

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Reviews: experimental

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M. Holterbach & Julia Eckhardt: Do-Undo (in G maze)
Ideal translators: Searching for models of cosmic harmony.
2010-07-28
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Bvdub: The Art of Dying Alone
Asymmetrical repetitions: Diving into the ocean of oblivion.
2010-07-26
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Vital Weekly 739 + 740
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the last two ...
2010-07-26
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Thisquietarmy: Meridians; Aftermath
Passing through purgatory: The traditional ambient aesthetic upside down.
2010-07-22
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Max Richter: Infra
Working with paradoxes: A large-scale cross-referential entity.
2010-07-22

Reviews: classical/contemporary

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Ursula Oppens: Oppens plays Carter; Pacifica Quartet: Elliott Carter Str
Two thousand pages of notes and studies: Ideal entry points into ...
2010-07-27
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Glenn Gould: "Berg, Schoenberg, Krenek"
A 20th century meat grinder: The emotional turbulence has not been ...
2010-07-14
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Karl Böhm: Richard Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie/ Der Rosenkavalier’
Looking after the legacy: Love of nature as a common theme.
2010-07-07
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Zeitkratzer: Old School: John Cage & James Tenney
Rewarding new perspectives: Revealing the true potential of contemporary classics.
2010-07-06
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Mischa Maisky & Pavel Gililov: "Morgen"
Highly melodious and folk-centric: A memento of love and respect.
2010-07-05

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Album of the Month - Sudden Infant: My Life's a Gunshot (Retrospective 1989-2009)

Sudden Infant: My Life's a Gunshot (Retrospective 1989-2009)

Setting himself to music: All of these loose fragments belong together.

There's undeniably a lot to be said about this humongously  expansive set, so let's begin ...

2010-07-12
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Arnold Schoenberg may, perhaps, not have been quite as impulsive as his former pupil Alban ...
2010-07-30
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Heinali & Matt Finney: Lemonade
Not sure whether this Ukrainamerican duo would make for good competition to brands like Coke ...
2010-07-28
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Havergal Brian: King of the Symphony
You thought Mahler was the unrivaled king of the maximalist symphony? You considered his second ...
2010-07-27
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Lowercase Noises

2010-06-24
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Philip Glass: Glassworks
If Glass really conceived this piece in an attempt of taking his work to a ...
2010-06-23
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Harald Kloser: Day after Tomorrow
2 minutes 35 seconds - that's exactly how long „The Day after Tomorrow“ is a ...
2010-06-21

Concert reviews

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Concert Review/ Vienna Piano Trio
Live at the Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto, ...
2010-07-26
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Concert Review/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin & National Arts Center Orchestra & Orchestre ...
Live at the Salle Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada, ...
2010-06-20
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Concert Review/ Caspar Brötzmann Massaker
Live at Berghain, Berlin, June 3rd, 2010. “Elektroakustischer Salon”.
2010-06-13
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Concert Review/ Kent Nagano & Susan Graham & Montréal Symphony Orchestra
Live at Salle Wilfried-Pelletier at Place des Arts, Montréal, Canada, May ...
2010-06-02
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Concert Review/ Francisco López & Toy Bizarre & Small Cruel Party
Live at Moers Festival, Moers, Germany, May 24th 2010.
2010-05-26
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Concert Review/ I Am The Architect
Live at Eurocityfest, Münster, May 15th 2010.
2010-05-17