Iancu Dumitrescu & Ana-Maria Avram with the Hyperion Ensemble, Mats Lindström...
One of the nicest things about live music is the way it brings together music fans in the mutual admiration or, at times, discovery of a recording artist. It’s a pretty fundamental part of the musical...
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Chris Watson – In Britten’s Footsteps
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth. Aldeburgh Music is celebrating this with a year long series of events based in and around Britten’s home from home, Snape Maltings, as...
View ArticleLiminal Minimals – March 2013
A-Sun Amissa – You Stood Up For Victory, We Stood Up For Less (Gizeh) Gizeh Records continue to probe the fine lines between drone, dark ambient and modern composition on this second release by A-Sun...
View ArticleA Hawk and A Hacksaw – You Have Already Gone to the Other World
A Hawk and a Hacksaw is New-Mexico based duo Heather Trost and Jeremy Barnes, the latter of which has been performing and recording under this name for almost a decade. Often seen or heard in...
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Keiji Haino and Voltigeurs at Cafe Oto
In the run up to this show, someone told me that Keiji Haino once insisted upon playing so loud that the sound engineer at the gig quit in disgust. Someone else told me that, despite the volume he...
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Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet at Cafe Oto
Ever the contrarian, there were in fact eleven members of Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet for their three day residency at Cafe Oto. Eleven. This was more than an attempt to simply be “one louder”: in...
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Oval and Imbogobom at Cafe Oto
“Natural events such as the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field…these sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of...
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F.S. Blumm & Nils Frahm – Music for Wobbling, Music versus Gravity
This is the second duet record Nils Frahm has made with guitarist and multi-instrumentalist F.S. Blumm, a musician who straddles free improv, avant rock and a whole bunch of other uncategorisable stuff...
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Liminal Seminals: the best new old things from 2011
Dickie Landry – Fifteen Saxophones (Unseen Worlds) These days Dickie Landry spends much of his time gigging with a Southern swamp rock/boogie combo in his native Louisiana, but when these recordings...
View ArticleTOP ROMANTIC SONGS TO EXPRESS LOVE
Nothing expresses emotions better than music. It captures the feelings and emotions and expresses it in a very good and ideal way. Even though there are many romantic songs, some of the heart melting...
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