Category Archives: Modern Composition
Bruno Bavota ~ La casa sulla Luna
Every once in a while, we come across something that is exactly as it appears, and all the better for it. Bruno Bavota‘s album La casa sulla Luna (The house on the Moon) looks like a cheerful, romantic piano disc, and that’s
Bruno Bavota ~ La casa sulla Luna
Every once in a while, we come across something that is exactly as it appears, and all the better for it. Bruno Bavota‘s album La casa sulla Luna (The house on the Moon) looks like a cheerful, romantic piano disc, and that’s
rotor plus ~ dust
Fans have been waiting a long time for this album. rotor plus (r+) began its trilogy in 2000 with alleron and continued it in 2004 with map key window. Much has happened since then, not only in history but in music; the world
rotor plus ~ dust
Fans have been waiting a long time for this album. rotor plus (r+) began its trilogy in 2000 with alleron and continued it in 2004 with map key window. Much has happened since then, not only in history but in music; the world
Julia Kent ~ Character
This is the album that turns a corner for cellist Julia Kent. This may be the last time we remind people she once played in Rasputina and Antony and the Johnsons. Those facts really doesn’t matter anymore. Following two previous albums
Julia Kent ~ Character
This is the album that turns a corner for cellist Julia Kent. This may be the last time we remind people she once played in Rasputina and Antony and the Johnsons. Those facts really doesn’t matter anymore. Following two previous albums
William Ryan Fritch ~ The Waiting Room OST
A great movie can inspire viewers to purchase the soundtrack; but this is the rare case in which a great soundtrack may inspire listeners to see the movie. This would be a very good thing. The documentary has been nominated
William Ryan Fritch ~ The Waiting Room OST
A great movie can inspire viewers to purchase the soundtrack; but this is the rare case in which a great soundtrack may inspire listeners to see the movie. This would be a very good thing. The documentary has been nominated
Endless Melancholy ~ Five Songs
Solo piano music seems perfectly fitted for winter, but we don’t often think of the reasons why. Perhaps it is because the music is stark like a winter landscape; because the white keys are reminiscent of snow; because the sounds
Endless Melancholy ~ Five Songs
Solo piano music seems perfectly fitted for winter, but we don’t often think of the reasons why. Perhaps it is because the music is stark like a winter landscape; because the white keys are reminiscent of snow; because the sounds
Michael Robinson ~ Nightmarchers
A composition inspired by midnight on the island of Maui, and played on a variety of instruments I can neither pronounce nor spell, Michael Robinson‘s Nightmarchers is an album unlike any other I’ve heard whilst writing for A Closer Listen,
Michael Robinson ~ Nightmarchers
A composition inspired by midnight on the island of Maui, and played on a variety of instruments I can neither pronounce nor spell, Michael Robinson‘s Nightmarchers is an album unlike any other I’ve heard whilst writing for A Closer Listen,
raven ~ New resolution
While reviewing Feral Media’s tenth anniversary compilation, I wrote that raven was an artist I’d like to hear more from. I got my wish when raven’s album was released on New Year’s Day. Combine a new year, a new album, and a new
raven ~ New resolution
While reviewing Feral Media’s tenth anniversary compilation, I wrote that raven was an artist I’d like to hear more from. I got my wish when raven’s album was released on New Year’s Day. Combine a new year, a new album, and a new
subzar ~ i am not yet here
One of two things can happen when a band makes the transition from one genre of music to another (in this case, post-rock to modern composition) and shares the intermediate results: horrible wreckage or, in this case, gorgeous allure. subzar (a
subzar ~ i am not yet here
One of two things can happen when a band makes the transition from one genre of music to another (in this case, post-rock to modern composition) and shares the intermediate results: horrible wreckage or, in this case, gorgeous allure. subzar (a
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