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Tag: instrumental

19/01/2024 nausika

Carry Them With Us: Scottish Gaelic folklore given new life by smallpipes and saxophone duo

Brìghde Chaimbeul, Carry Them With Us, Germany, Glitterbeat, GB 139 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Albums of instrumental music centred

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10/01/2024 nausika

DAIKAN: reissue of a dronescape work beautiful and serene, dark and forbidding, blissful and hypnotic

Thomas Köner, DAIKAN, Germany, Mille Plateaux, MP49 CD digipak / double vinyl LP (2022) Twenty years after its original release

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31/12/2023 Ed Pinsent

Becoming More Horse

Toronto musician Nick Storring with his solo record Music From Wéi (ORANGE MILK RECORDS OM161), produced entirely using pianos (and

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13/12/2023 Ed Pinsent

Let Joy Be Uncontained

After so many “lockdown” and “pandemic” albums, it’s a nice change to hear a life-affirming “end-of-lockdown” record…Hunter Complex was so

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30/11/2023 nausika

Voyage initiatique: a start to many adventures in free jazz improv for two collaborators

Duncan Pinhas, Yérri-Gaspar Hummel, Voyage initiatique, France, Lab’ut, LABUT005 CD (2023) As far as I can tell, “Voyage initiatique” is

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19/11/2023 Ed Pinsent

The Effects of Freshwater Flow

On na margem sul (ROOM 40 EDRM431), the American guitarist David Grubbs joins the Portuguese guitarist Manuel Mota for a

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14/11/2023 nausika

Playon Crayon: free jazz improvisation with a light and playful touch

Elsa Bergman, Playon Crayon, Sweden, Bergman Inspelningar, BI004 CD (2023) On days when you need relaxing music with a light

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13/11/2023 nausika

Pita / Friedl: a rough-n-tumble exploration of how far sound and noise can go

Pita / Friedl, self-titled, Germany, Karlrecords, KR099 vinyl LP (2023) Before his unexpected death in July 2021, Peter “PITA” Rehberg

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10/11/2023 nausika

Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II: two soundscape works that demand your attention to their every quiver and flutter

Alvin Lucier, Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II, Australia, Black Truffle Records, BT109 vinyl LP (2023) A follow-up

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14/10/2023 nausika

con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas): a work about memory and how sounds bridge the present and the past

Gil Sansón, con richard (por la adversidad a las estrellas), Belgium, Unfathomless, U80 CD (2023) A very, very quiet recording,

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