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Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
If Coin Coin Chapter One was an eclectic evocation of history as the history of liberty, an ‘activist’ endeavor both individual and collective in the sense given by the great tradition of free jazz, Coin Coin Chapter Two is more
Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
If Coin Coin Chapter One was an eclectic evocation of history as the history of liberty, an ‘activist’ endeavor both individual and collective in the sense given by the great tradition of free jazz, Coin Coin Chapter Two is more
Justin Scott Gray ~ Adult Music
I have no option but to say this outright: Adult Music is a lovely album. It is both a celebration and a melancholic remembrance, at least in the way it intertwines the softness of its production with slowly treading rhythms,
Justin Scott Gray ~ Adult Music
I have no option but to say this outright: Adult Music is a lovely album. It is both a celebration and a melancholic remembrance, at least in the way it intertwines the softness of its production with slowly treading rhythms,
SMTG Limited ~ Four releases to support Haiti
Is ‘world music’ still possible? After all, the premise of it runs closely to that of colonial pasts, to the image of the 19th century anthropologist that turns cultures into curiosities, into preconceived slideshows of noble savages merged into natural
SMTG Limited ~ Four releases to support Haiti
Is ‘world music’ still possible? After all, the premise of it runs closely to that of colonial pasts, to the image of the 19th century anthropologist that turns cultures into curiosities, into preconceived slideshows of noble savages merged into natural
Lithuanian Lady Boys ~ Demonic Possession in Post Industrial Britain
The promise of infinity looms ever-so-slightly over noise and experimental music, and it underlines many an aspiration of utopian becoming, an immersive upward spiral of destruction and creation that would end when ‘true’ history would start. There is, however, a
Lithuanian Lady Boys ~ Demonic Possession in Post Industrial Britain
The promise of infinity looms ever-so-slightly over noise and experimental music, and it underlines many an aspiration of utopian becoming, an immersive upward spiral of destruction and creation that would end when ‘true’ history would start. There is, however, a
Ricarda Cometa ~ Ricarda Cometa
Ricarda Cometa is an Argentinian trio playing music that is as visceral as a punch to the gut, twisting and breaking all sorts of rhythms from Latin America in an avant-garde way that sets them far apart from the current
Ricarda Cometa ~ Ricarda Cometa
Ricarda Cometa is an Argentinian trio playing music that is as visceral as a punch to the gut, twisting and breaking all sorts of rhythms from Latin America in an avant-garde way that sets them far apart from the current
Greg Haines ~ Where We Were
Digital music production owes its greatness to a kind of thought that places the terms of its progress within the ever-expanding boundaries of fidelity, a sharp cleanliness that denotes the achievements of rationality and its very distinct calls for order.
Greg Haines ~ Where We Were
Digital music production owes its greatness to a kind of thought that places the terms of its progress within the ever-expanding boundaries of fidelity, a sharp cleanliness that denotes the achievements of rationality and its very distinct calls for order.
Maninkari ~ Phantasmes
Phantasmes is French duo Maninkari‘s soundtrack to a movie of the same name, a movie about a man driven to madness by the apparition of a beautiful woman… a pulp, popular tale that speaks of an obsession that mystifies, an
Maninkari ~ Phantasmes
Phantasmes is French duo Maninkari‘s soundtrack to a movie of the same name, a movie about a man driven to madness by the apparition of a beautiful woman… a pulp, popular tale that speaks of an obsession that mystifies, an
Feathered Coyote: Third-eye glimpses into drone music
Whenever someone says ‘new age’, the most common association is to the banality of well-being magics and charlatan leaps of faith, a feeble, silly, and false confrontation with the cumbersome forces of reason and realism that configure every landscape
Feathered Coyote: Third-eye glimpses into drone music
Whenever someone says ‘new age’, the most common association is to the banality of well-being magics and charlatan leaps of faith, a feeble, silly, and false confrontation with the cumbersome forces of reason and realism that configure every landscape
a closer listen 