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Victoire ~ Cathedral City
Brooklyn-based composer Missy Mazzoli founded the quintet Victoire to perform her compositions, and their full-length debut demonstrates what happens when talented musicians take the time to develop their craft. Last year’s debut EP Door Into the Dark was good, but the time since has paid off in the fantastic Cathedral City. The release has an…
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Sound Propositions 011: Taylor Deupree
Originally published at www.acloserlisten.com Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release…
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Jorge’s guide to DF
<<Jorge’s guide to DF>> is a companion to <<a sea without a port>> Released on the Italian label Galaverna December 21, 2015 listen / read more: galaverna.bandcamp.com/album/a-sea-without-a-port www.galaverna.org?p=3261 <<a sea without a port>> utilized recordings made around Mexico City (especially in the colonias and delegaciones of Roma, Condesa, Zona Rosa, Centro, Tepito, San Miguel Chapultepec,…
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Luca Sigurtà ~ Bliss
Originally published by ACL A simple three-note melody is quietly sounded out as electronics buzz and swarm their way into the foreground, a low tone gently swelling in the back. A bird cries above, water sloshes lightly in the harbor. What is conjured up is not quite bliss, but something more ecstatic, outside-of-itself while still…
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Sound Propositions 01: Machinefabriek
First published at A Closer Listen Joseph Sannicandro interviews Rutger Zuydervelt, akaMachinefabriek, in the first installment of an ongoing series exploring the creative process and a non-fetishization of equipment. “A rather poor instrument,… but how wonderfully they use it.” In this quote, James Joyce is referring to the French language, but at its heart…
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con fuoco d’occhi un nostalgico lupo
The following essay accompanies a 2-volume compilation of experimental Italian music I curated for The Silent Ballet, a webzine I co-founded in 2006, and Lost Children, a net-label I’ve been co-running since 2010. A link to a free download is included below. The compilation was release one year ago, and received some very nice press.…
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The Genealogy of a Musical Idea
The following 4 songs suggest something of a genealogy. Though each track has different structures and keys and changes (or lack there-of) the connection between the tracks is pretty obvious. The first single off Mogwai‘s latest LP clearly references the melody beginning in David Bowie‘s “Warszawa.” Beginning at 1:17, the key changes and the melody…
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