Swiss experimentalists Cyril Bondi and d’incise continue their work with the Insub Meta Orchestra to propose questions about contemporary music,
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Breathing Room
Martin Taxt Second Room NORWAY SOFA MUSIC SOFA588 CD (2022) Here is a dynamic album of minimal drone music that
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New chamber music from Eren Gümrükçüoğlu, the Turkish-born composer, on Pareidolia (NEW FOCUS RECORDINGS FCR343) played by JACK Quartet, Mivos
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Four new items from the art label Sublime Retreat in Wroclaw Poland, operated by Taras Opanasuik. Three of them feature
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I never heard the music of Hungarian modernist György Kurtág before, but that’s my loss…the CD Hommage A Kurtág (NEW
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Gayle Young As Trees Grow IRELAND FARPOINT RECORDINGS fp084 CD (2022) Gayle Young is a Canadian composer, instrument builder and
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For percussionist Greg Stuart, music has been something of a less-then-easy journey. He has focal dystonia, a neurological condition that
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Nice piece of voice-with-electronics improvisation by Sun Dog, the team of ErikM and Isabelle Duthoit. Col Des Tempètes (CRONICA ELECTRONICA
Continue readingKvad: an epic minimalist dronescape work, heavenly and powerful, mysterious and inscrutable
Erik Levander, Kvad, Germany, Supple 9, SUP008 CD (2023) A chance visit to a cathedral more than twenty years ago,
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Canadian composer Monica Pearce here with her Textile Fantasies (CENTREDISCS CMCCD 30322) – she sometimes does opera, but this album
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