Category Archives: Modern Composition
Library Tapes ~ Patterns (Repeat)
Sensitivity and sadness are often known to link hands, but it’s usually not done out of love, less a public display of affection and more like a necessary, binding union. Sensitivity doesn’t always equal an automatic brand of sadness, but
Library Tapes ~ Patterns (Repeat)
Sensitivity and sadness are often known to link hands, but it’s usually not done out of love, less a public display of affection and more like a necessary, binding union. Sensitivity doesn’t always equal an automatic brand of sadness, but
Terje Isungset ~ Beauty of Winter
It’s almost summer, an odd time to release an album titled Beauty of Winter. But despite its cold pedigree, the music sounds warm. The sound of an ice pick may remind some of shave ice, a summer treat drawn from the
Terje Isungset ~ Beauty of Winter
It’s almost summer, an odd time to release an album titled Beauty of Winter. But despite its cold pedigree, the music sounds warm. The sound of an ice pick may remind some of shave ice, a summer treat drawn from the
Kaada ~ Closing Statements
If we were masters of our own fates, we might all have great exit lines. We’d plan them years in advance, store them up and exhale them with our final breaths. Yet in reality, most final words are more maudlin
Kaada ~ Closing Statements
If we were masters of our own fates, we might all have great exit lines. We’d plan them years in advance, store them up and exhale them with our final breaths. Yet in reality, most final words are more maudlin
Zura Zaj ~ Small Obstacles
On the surface, Small Obstacles is all about the sea: as the liner notes proclaim, The journey, the waves. The swell of the tide, the motion of drift. The opening sound is midway between a breath and a shore. We’ve been yearning
Zura Zaj ~ Small Obstacles
On the surface, Small Obstacles is all about the sea: as the liner notes proclaim, The journey, the waves. The swell of the tide, the motion of drift. The opening sound is midway between a breath and a shore. We’ve been yearning
Iannis Xenakis ~ Persepolis
The story and context of Iannis Xenakis’ Persepolis is not only quite interesting, it is perhaps the key to understand what it was meant to do. Commissioned for the 1971 Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival, an Iranian institution which lasted from 1967
Iannis Xenakis ~ Persepolis
The story and context of Iannis Xenakis’ Persepolis is not only quite interesting, it is perhaps the key to understand what it was meant to do. Commissioned for the 1971 Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival, an Iranian institution which lasted from 1967
Maciek Dobrowolski ~ Ephemera
Loss and gratitude mingle at the core of this gorgeous album, which was inspired by W.B. Yeats’ heartrending poem Ephemera. On the surface, the poem bears the weight of fading love and the sorrow of age. But read again, and
Maciek Dobrowolski ~ Ephemera
Loss and gratitude mingle at the core of this gorgeous album, which was inspired by W.B. Yeats’ heartrending poem Ephemera. On the surface, the poem bears the weight of fading love and the sorrow of age. But read again, and
Anders Lauge Meldgaard ~ At Synge Verden Ind I En Ny Og Mangefoldet Tid
A new label, a new collective and a new name for Copenhagen’s Anders Lauge Meldgaard, formerly known as Frisk Frugt (among others): as the EP title indicates, the composer is Singing The World Into A New And Manifold Time. The music’s
Anders Lauge Meldgaard ~ At Synge Verden Ind I En Ny Og Mangefoldet Tid
A new label, a new collective and a new name for Copenhagen’s Anders Lauge Meldgaard, formerly known as Frisk Frugt (among others): as the EP title indicates, the composer is Singing The World Into A New And Manifold Time. The music’s
Stefano Guzzetti ~ Short Stories. Piano Book Volume Two.
We like short stories. We also like pianos, the color blue, origami vessels, and the fact that Stefano Guzzetti has dedicated this album to his sister Francesca, “a tiny paper ship.” Over the past half decade, the artist has issued a series
Stefano Guzzetti ~ Short Stories. Piano Book Volume Two.
We like short stories. We also like pianos, the color blue, origami vessels, and the fact that Stefano Guzzetti has dedicated this album to his sister Francesca, “a tiny paper ship.” Over the past half decade, the artist has issued a series
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