Sound Propositions
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Meet Montreal volume musician Kyle Bobby Dunn
Canadian artist Kyle Bobby Dunn spent a few years doing the Brooklyn thing before returning to the Great White North. Happily based in Montreal for the last year, KBD celebrates the release of his epic triple LP/double CD album Kyle Bobby Dunn & The Infinite Sadness, released by Students of Decay, with a truly special…
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Jerusalem in my Heart
Article originally published May 15, 2014 at Cult MTL For their 30th edition, the organizers of the FIMAV festival in Victoriaville reached back throughout their archives to assemble an all-star program, but rather than just bring in big name performers who have been on the world stage since the ’60s, they made sure to balance the…
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John Butcher keeps jazz dangerous
John Butcher The last several years have seen a renewed interest in the saxophone, with a resurgence of sax ensembles, a reissue of Dickie Landry’s excellent 1977 LP Fifteen Saxophones and the great success of Montreal’s Colin Stetson. The popularity of Stetson’s approach to solo performance and composition has shone some much deserved light…
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Meet the lo-fi, high-end sounds of Africa
A shorter version of this interview was originally published by Cult MTL on Jun 7, 2013 in Nightlife | Cassette tapes may be disdained by many for their low fidelity and inability to shuffle, but a new generation of tape lovers has embraced the medium for those very reasons. Brian Shimkovitz isn’t one of…
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noWHere: Manifesto for Sound Artists
In December of 2012, the Italian sound artist Enrico Coniglio published noWHere – ideale manifesto per sound artists, an old-fashioned manifesto articulating a set of core values about how we as artists should approach “live electronics.” Below you’ll find my translation of this manifesto into English. The Manifesto will be presented at this page free…
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Sound Propositions 07: Lemures (Enrico Coniglio + Giovanni Lami)
This article, like all of my Sound Propositions columns, was originally published by A CLOSER LISTEN. 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.”…
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UN PAESE VUOL DIRE Mix by (Gianmarco del Re)
Originally posted at A CLOSER LISTEN Un Paese Vuol Dire Mix by Lostchildrennetlabel on Mixcloud I’ve been really pleased with the mixes that have been produced for this series, as they often break the mold by doing something more creative than just throwing together a bunch of tracks. “Un Paese Vuol Dire…” is this special…
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Sound Propositions 06: Giuseppe Ielasi
[Originally published at acloserlisten.com] Our friends at Experimedia are currently doing a Spotlight feature on Giuseppe Ielasi. Head over to their site to check out 28 Ielasi-related albums, and check out this playlist highlighting the many sides of this very singular talent. I know this will appear very simplistic, but I think that choosing to…
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Sound Propositions 05: Pete Swanson
Originally published at A CLOSER LISTEN Pete Swanson is perhaps best known as half of the pioneering American west coast Noise duo Yellow Swans, along with Gabriel Mindel Saloman. Yellow Swans disbanded in 2008, and Swanson kept a relatively low profile at first, self-releasing a few tapes and small-run LPs while the reputation of the…
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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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What Montreal Can Learn from Cairo
Originally published by Cult Mtl. Sam Shalabi and Stefan Christoff Rodina is a series of piano and oud duets between Stefan Christoff and Sam Shalabi that draw on free-form jazz and the makam tradition of Arabic music. (Listen to the record’s opening track here.) Though the title refers to a Slavic concept of motherland, it’s not…
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Interview: Aspec(t)
Originally posted as part of my mix/interview series at http://www.acloserlisten.com Sec_ part 1 Sec_ part 2 Mario Gabola LCNL 010: SEC_ Mix Last year while in Napoli I met Mario Gabola (A spirale, Aspec(t)) at Perditempo, an incredible music venue in Piazza Dante with a sister-store nearby, both of which act as bars that sell…
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