Reviews
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Dave Phillips / Aspec(t) ~ Medusa
Originally published at acloserlisten “The jellyfish represents the collapse of the ecosystem and the spinelessness of the people charged with protecting it.” -George Monbiot,“Feeding Frenzy” Medusa, the first collaboration between Dave Phillips (DP) and Aspec(t), (Mario Gabola and Mimmo Napolitano) is no doubt challenging music, but as the liner notes remind us, we live…
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Italian Review of Les Rumeurs cassette [English Translation]
Vasco Viviani, of Old Bicycle Records, recently wrote a very nice review of the Les Rumeurs tape for Radio Gwen (in Italiano) in Switzerland. I’ve taken the liberty of translating it into English. Thanks to Vasco for this! Stefan Christoff & Joseph Sannicandro – Les Rumeurs De La Montagne Rouge, En Chœur, Convergent howlarts.net …
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This is still our punk rock, thee fritzy drum machines
Montreal’s most dedicated protest rock group Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra will be playing a very special record release show at the Rialto on [Thursday Feb 6th]. They’ll be hitting the road hard in the next few months all over Europe and the States to celebrate their latest record, Fuck Off Get Free…
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Nicola Ratti ~ Ossario (Volumes I and II)
The way I work lately is focused on a live improvisation approach. Streengs is my first solo work where I practiced that way of playing. It is a work made by a single concept and the same set of instruments done in the same period. This is very important to me. It’s like keeping focused…
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AIPS Collective ~ Postcards from Italy
This essay is included in the collected edition of Gianmarco del Re’s Postcards from Italy, originally published by Fluid-Radio and available for download as a PDF here. Postcards from Italy, the album, is the inaugural release from Oak editions, an independent music art label owned and managed by the ambient artists Francesco Giannico & Alessio…
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Pop Montreal 2010 review: Swans @ Le National
Originally published by SSG Music Swans @ Le National | October 1 Earlier this year Michael Gira announced that he was restarting Swans, refusing to label this reformation as a reunion. The temptation is of course to compare this latest beast with the now legendary group, particularly those of us who were too young to…
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A Closer Look: Mutek 2013
Originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN Mutek It’s been over a month now since the last late night at the SAT, the last long walk up St. Laurent in the early morning, and I’ve let it all sink in and decompress a bit. Any festival can be overwhelming, particularly when the emphasis is on dancing…
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Temps Libre EP
“Temps Libre” is the first release from the St. Laurent Piano Project, a recording series initiated by musician Stefan Christoff. Featuring Brahja Waldman on sax, Peter Burton on contrabass and Stefan Christoff on piano, “Temps Libre” is a musical exploration recorded at La Sala Rossa in late summer 2012 as Quebec’s student uprising echoed across…
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eContact! 14.3 — Turntablism
The Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s journal eContact! published my review of Martin Tétreault’s Turntable Quartet performance at Akousma 9 last fall. It’s a reworked and much improved section of my AKOUSMA review that ran at ACL, but this one was peer-reviewed and edited after I reworked it. Read it here, and check out the entire issue as…
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Chris Dooks and Machinefabriek ~ The Eskdalemuir Harmonium
Between the tremendous volume of recordings released and the ease of obtaining them, perhaps it’s only natural to expect that we tend to have such short attention spans these days. The Eskdalemuir Harmonium came out late in 2012, a beautiful LP published by Komino records, yet to some this review may already seem much too…
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A Closer Look: Montreal’s AKOUSMA Festival
First published at A CLOSER LISTEN All photos by Caroline Campeau, courtesy of Réseaux des arts médiatiques Québec has long nurtured creative and experimental arts & music. The Québécois are something of an historical anomaly, an island of Francophones adrift in a sea Anglophones. This fact, combined with its relative geographic isolation and the paradox of…
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