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Eleh & Denis Blackham: Mastering 'Location Momentum'
If there was a message to Eleh's first album for Touch (yes, the one everybody's talking about at the moment), then it must surely be that sound, resonance and music ...2010-03-16
Tom Norris: Taking Classical Music to the Edge
Even today, some classical musicians are afraid of facing up to their interest in Pop, Rock and Electronica. Secretly, they will listen to Britney Spears on their headphones, tuck away ...2010-03-15
Delicate Noise: Finally finishing Filmezza
Already in its original form, Delicate Noise's "Filmezza" was a big and bold album-statement: A wide array of influences was melded into a surreally shimmering experience made up of glowing ...2010-03-10
Fenn O'Berg: In Stereo/ Nice Music/ Yes/ No
There are plenty of pictures of Peter Rehberg to be found on the web and, man, he's loking extremely serious on most of them. After reading through our interview with ...2010-03-09
mAtter: Label Profile
Each day, fresh demos are arriving at Yukitomo Hamasaki's office, lots of them containing exciting music. Each day, too, Hamasaki nonetheless has to discard a few of them for lack ...2010-03-05
Form Design: Musical Instincts and the Complexities of Pop
Blame the CD-era, but a new generation of music fans is only now realising that sound and visual arts belong together. To Paula Benson and Paul West, the current vinyl-craze ...2010-03-03
The Oracle Hysterical: Stravinsky's Hip Hop Opera
In a recent interview with Sound Designer Mark Grey, he had a bemusing anecdote to share with us: "You must always remember that there are serious anti-sound patrons in the ...2010-03-03
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2010: Celebrating Monteverdi's Vespers
The 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's Vespers anchors one of the best-loved works of the Baroque repertoire during the Lufthansa Festival for Baroque Music 2010. The 2010 Festival will launch the ...2010-02-25
Absolute Ensemble & Simone Dinnerstein: Absolute Bach Re-invented "irreverently inspired"
Kristjan Järvi’s Absolute Ensemble will perform a series of concerts on tour wth noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein in February. The concert, Absolute Bach Re-invented, features "irreverently inspired" Bach selections performed ...2010-02-11
empreintes DIGITALes: Label Profile
Labels come and go. But even within this fast-changing world, where everyone with internet access can set up a record company and start releasing music, some outfits have proved more ...2010-01-22
Mozarteumorchester Salzburg: Touching Audiences with Authenticity
Bruno Natal's movie "Dub Echoes", documenting the rise and continuing relevance of experimental music in Jamaica, stresses the interrelation of past and present and how something that was hot three ...2010-01-22
Kui Dong: Free-spirited Piano Preparations
Even almost two decades after his death, John Cage continues to influence the scene for contemporary composition like no one else. In some cases, the results of his disciples are ...2010-01-14
Joyce DiDonato: The Wheelchair-Mezzo releases "Colbran, the Muse"
It was the heroines of composer Gioacchino Rossini who brought American operatic mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato to international acclaim, and she turns to Rossini's work with her new CD "Colbran, the ...2010-01-13
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt: The "Chilean Mozart" passes away
On Sunday, 3rd of November, Chilean composer and teacher Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt passed away at his home in Oldenburg. Despite his advanced age of 84, Becerra-Schmidts death comes as a shock ...2010-01-07
Erstwhile Records: Label Profile
The story of Erstwhile Records seems improbable at best. Focusing on a discrete music made up of static, hiss, noise and crackle, high-tension improvisations at the verge of silence and ...2010-01-06
