It’s not too long ago that we noted the Ensemble 0 version of Julius Eastman’s Femenine released by Sub Rosa
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November Steps
Dennis Lee Johnson was an American composer and mathematician, who composed a piece of music called November in 1959. The
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Here’s a new recording of Femenine (SUB ROSA SR501) by Julius Eastman, the Afro-American composer who for a brief time
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Italian flautist Manuel Zurria has shown up in these pages before with Loops4ever on the Mazagran label in 2011, and
Continue readingThe Man Who Tried Wolff
Christian Wolff Preludes, Variations, Studies and Incidental Music Performed by Philip Thomas BELGIUM SUB ROSA SR480 2 x CD (2019)
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Very good to hear the return of Ensemble neoN, the Norwegian modernist players who impressed us in 2017 with their
Continue readingIn C Mazovian Spirit
Polish combo Musiquette A perform a version of Terry Riley’s In C (BÔ?T RECORDS BR 1049), under the auspices of
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The music of Catherine Christer Hennix is entirely new to me, but there’s a programme of effort underway just now
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Here be three records from Belgium of high-quality minimal / slow music. They’re all credited to TONUS, which is the
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Recently heard Bill Brovold on the cassette Superstar, from the Eh? Audio Repository label, a hugely enjoyable tape of guitar
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