Most of these New Focus Recordings releases of contemporary classical music are one or two shades too highbrow for me,
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Tag: piano
Everything Evaporate: a remarkable sound art experience in which boundaries between worlds all dissolve
Félicia Atkinson, Everything Evaporate, France, Shelter Press, SP121 cassette (2020) Félicia Atkinson is a French-born, Belgian-based musician with a considerable
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Coda: an ethereal dreamscape of sighing voices and a serious yet blissful mood
Ekin Fil, Coda, United States, Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS054 12″ vinyl limited edition (2020) Based in Istanbul, drone-pop singer Ekin
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The Weekend Was Modern: six solo piano pieces for times when life is dark
Filalete, The Weekend Was Modern, Russia, Perfect Aesthetics, AEST-052 cassette limited edition (2020) For those times when life seems dark
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Vacant: a life transition and rite of passage detailed in ever-growing ambient soundscapes
Ytamo, Vacant, Australia, Room40 / Someone Good, RMSG021 CD limited edition (2020) Recorded in 2019 while pregnant with her first
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Piano Mirage: a fantasy world of light and dark created on solo piano
Angelina Yershova, Piano Mirage, Italy, AYrecords, AY001 CD (2020) A native of Kazakhstan (Almaty), Angelina Yershova already has a fair
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Truancy: a world of original soundscapes opened up by treated sax and piano
Jim Denley and Cor Fuhler, Truancy, Australia, Splitrec, splitrec24 CD / vinyl (2014) News of Cor Fuhler’s death on 22
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The Enigmatic Fortress
Three not-unrelated sets from the Polish Bô?t Records label, revealing hitherto little-known portions of musical history from that part of
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Piano Of Forest
We have heard once from the Austrian pianist Elisabeth Harnik, as part of the trio RedDeer with Dominic Lash and
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Tap Turns on the Water
Keith Tippett The Unlonely Raindancer UK DISCUS MUSIC DISCUS 81 CD (2019) It’s a given when I say that over
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