Posts Tagged: Joseph Sannicandro

The Problem with “My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection”

   “It would be a lowly art that allows itself to be understood all at once, whose apex can be observed by the newly initiated.” – Goethe   There’s a lot to like about My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection, a

The Problem with “My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection”

   “It would be a lowly art that allows itself to be understood all at once, whose apex can be observed by the newly initiated.” – Goethe   There’s a lot to like about My Husband’s Stupid Record Collection, a

Sound Propositions 08: Mark Fell

“Imagine a Zen Buddhist with unresolved emotional issues.” -Mark Fell describing snd Sound Propositions set out to be a kind of anti-gear gear column. A studio diary that was about artistic decisions, not copy for a consumer electronics catalog. In

Sound Propositions 08: Mark Fell

“Imagine a Zen Buddhist with unresolved emotional issues.” -Mark Fell describing snd Sound Propositions set out to be a kind of anti-gear gear column. A studio diary that was about artistic decisions, not copy for a consumer electronics catalog. In

LCNL 050: The Long Now mix

  Julien Demoulin had proposed compiling an ‘infinity mix’ of long form compositions and album length tracks, playing with the idea of an impractically long mix but also implicitly suggesting competing timescales.  Though this mix was ready weeks ago, sorting

LCNL 050: The Long Now mix

  Julien Demoulin had proposed compiling an ‘infinity mix’ of long form compositions and album length tracks, playing with the idea of an impractically long mix but also implicitly suggesting competing timescales.  Though this mix was ready weeks ago, sorting

Interview: Linear Obsessional’s Richard Sanderson on ‘For Syria’

  Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, the Middle East seems to have been unable to regain any sense of stability.  Internal conflicts, imposed borders, powerful oligarchs and outside interventions have resulted in a

Interview: Linear Obsessional’s Richard Sanderson on ‘For Syria’

  Since the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War, the Middle East seems to have been unable to regain any sense of stability.  Internal conflicts, imposed borders, powerful oligarchs and outside interventions have resulted in a

Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro ~ Les Rumeurs de la Montagne Rouge, En Chœur, Convergent

While protest music is large enough to fill its own category, we seldom encounter the music of protest.  This C-20, which documents and reflects upon the Quebec student uprising of 2012, almost needs a category of its own. What one thinks

Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro ~ Les Rumeurs de la Montagne Rouge, En Chœur, Convergent

While protest music is large enough to fill its own category, we seldom encounter the music of protest.  This C-20, which documents and reflects upon the Quebec student uprising of 2012, almost needs a category of its own. What one thinks

Fennesz ~ Bécs

In 2001 Mego released Endless Summer, a shimmering wave of digital guitar manipulations that ranks among the best – and “poppiest”- of Fennesz’s now extensive catalog. It wasn’t just the album that solidified Fennesz among the upper echelon of electronic

Fennesz ~ Bécs

In 2001 Mego released Endless Summer, a shimmering wave of digital guitar manipulations that ranks among the best – and “poppiest”- of Fennesz’s now extensive catalog. It wasn’t just the album that solidified Fennesz among the upper echelon of electronic

Danny Norbury ~ Light in August [re-issue]

Danny Norbury’s Light in August was originally released by Lacies in July of 2009. This reissue, on Flau, includes his first EP Dusk, as well as “Fragment 2,” the beautiful closing track from 2012’s Bluebeard.  Below is an edited version of my initial review, published by The Silent Ballet

Danny Norbury ~ Light in August [re-issue]

Danny Norbury’s Light in August was originally released by Lacies in July of 2009. This reissue, on Flau, includes his first EP Dusk, as well as “Fragment 2,” the beautiful closing track from 2012’s Bluebeard.  Below is an edited version of my initial review, published by The Silent Ballet

Sound Propositions 07: Lemures (Enrico Coniglio + Giovanni Lami)

    A CLOSER LISTEN was honored to have published a translation of sound artist Enrico Coniglio’s noWHere manifesto. Coniglio described his manifesto to me as:  Just a small initiative, trying to clarify / provoke the “world of live electronics.”  Too many

Sound Propositions 07: Lemures (Enrico Coniglio + Giovanni Lami)

    A CLOSER LISTEN was honored to have published a translation of sound artist Enrico Coniglio’s noWHere manifesto. Coniglio described his manifesto to me as:  Just a small initiative, trying to clarify / provoke the “world of live electronics.”  Too many