Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work.…
OLD & NEW DREAMS
This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as…
Peepers
Polar Bear is a London-based quintet led by the Scottish percussionist and composer Sebastian Rochford. Many of the best composers…
INDISCREET MUSIC
Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism: Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute, an academic study that radically reconsiders…
FREE TIME
Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen, a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to…
Transmissions From The Radio Midnight
Aki Onda ~ Transmissions From The Radio Midnight After acquiring a portable tape recorder with a built-in radio in 2006, Aki…
We Buy Diabetic Test Strips
On the last verse of “As the Crow Flies,” the final track on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Maps, released earlier in 2023, woods rhymes:…
Demain, dès l’aube
From Overseas & zakè ~ Demain, dès l’aube On the final day of my first trip abroad, I hiked to the…
A Sorrow Unrequited
Frizzell & Duque ~ A Sorrow Unrequited A Sorrow Unrequited is a short but gorgeous collaboration between Frizzell & Duque, comprised of…
Soft Octaves
James Bernard & anthéne ~ Soft Octaves In a letter to his brother Theo, Vincent Van Gogh writes of “colors, which…
eve
zakè & Benoît Pioulard ~ eve While I’m not exactly what you’d call a “believer,” let alone a practicing anything,…
Vodacom Superstars – Akon goes to the Congo
Given that Congo is back in the news, I’m reposting this piece I wrote for SSG Music in 2011, which…
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