Robert Ashley | Automatic WritingLovely Music (LP/DL) Lovely Music is finally presenting a reissue of Robert Ashley’s classic 1979 album Automatic Writing. A 45 minute-long piece exploring the subtlety of unintended vocal materials and a precursor of ambient music. Ashley was an American composer known for his efforts in the field of experimental music, including the use […]
Andrea Parkins & Matthew Ostrowski | Elective AffinitiesInfrequent Seams (CD/DL) In modern experimental music, composition and improvisation are always treated like the two flips of the same coin. Some musicians reach a terrific consciousness in the improvisation process that becomes a way of life and makes hard for the audience to distinguish the person from the […]
Tears|Ov | An Hopeless PlaceThe Wormhole (LP/DL) An ominous riff, concrete sounds from the outer world, voices almost unhuman. This is the soundscape that welcomes us at the very start of A hopeless place, Tears|Ov’s last work. This female trio, active since 2015, debuts on The Wormhole – Tapeworm format-free sublabel – as a result of a […]
Espen Sommer Eide | The WavesSOFA (CD/LP) Out on SOFA the new work by the Bergen based Norwegian composer Espen Sommer Eide. This album is the result of a whole year of recordings that took place in Mastricht, NL, together with guest musicians Martin Taxt and Mari Kvien Brunvoll. Eide is famous for his instruments […]
Eliane Radigue | Chry-PtusImportant Records (2xLP) Important Records adds a new release to the ever-growing collection of reissues of historically relevant electroacoustic music works. After a wide release of reissues of works by Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier, the last publication by the American label presents the first work of the French composer and drone […]
Ian Wellman | BioaccumulationRoom 40 (CD/DL) The composer and field recordist, Ian Wellman comes back on Room 40 to present Bioaccumulation: his new work inspired by his latest biological studies. In science the term bioaccumulation is used to indicate the phenomenon of accumulation of substances in an organism that absorbs them faster than it loses them. Wellman […]
Aki Onda & Paul Clipson | Make Visible The Ghosts audioMER. (LP) *TAKATAKATAKAKTAKATAKA* Shadow rakes across the pavement starts in medias res, unexpectedly, without any introduction and we are violently thrown into a hectic sonic situation where pulsing sounds, and deep dark drones manifest their presence in a sinister way. We are immediately acquainted with […]
Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, Oren AmbarchiIn the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button | Black Truffle (2 LP + CD) Haino, O’Rourke, Ambarchi is definitely a one-of-a-kind trio by many means: for those who […]
Music for Sleep | Infinite Tape Loops: The EdgeRohs Records (CD) I’ve been dedicating some time lately to analyze different approaches to tape music composition. After the review of kNN double release on Canti Magnetici and Walkman Jazz by Sammartano, out on the same label, I came across this record by Music For Sleep (Andrea […]
Stefano Pilia | In Girus Imus Nocte et Consumimur IgniDie Schachtel (LP/DL) Stefano Pilia is an Italian guitarist who has been active for many years in that gray area crossing electroacoustic experimentations, film scores and the most avantgarde outcomes of the Italian rock scene. He has collaborated with many artists in Italy and abroad, from […]
Ensemble Neon | Niblock / LambHubro (CD/DL) Ensemble Neon is one of Norway’s leading contemporary music ensembles, active since 2008 and synonymous for extreme quality and fantastic interpretation. In this album, released on Hubro, they perform two pieces expressly commissioned for them to Phill Niblock and Catherine Lamb. The two American composers come up with […]
Sammartano | Walkman JazzCanti Magnetici (CS/DL) Canti Magnetici is a small Italian label with a very interesting profile, the philosophy of the label sees the tape not as a mere plastic box hosting music, a fetish for audiophiles’ collections, but a true investigatory medium. The music they release is composed to be on tape and […]
kNN | queste cose non avvennero mai ma sono sempre / rlecchinesqueCanti Magnetici (2xCS) Kaspar NonNewton – kNN is the moniker of Renato Grieco. Born in Napoli (Italy), a city with a great, slowly unfolding scene for experimental music, he has been the protagonist of a consistent outburst of releases between 2018-2019 that led to […]
Akio Suzuki | Resonant Spaces901 Editions (CD) Akio Suzuki is known for being one of the most interesting sound performing artists to date. His approach to site specific performance and careful study of space acoustics based on experience and perception turns every concert into a unique experience which is, of course, hard to document and […]
Illachime Quartet | Soundtrack (for parties on the edge of the void)Solchi Sperimentali Discografici (CD) Illachime Quartet is one of those bands who, always being faithful to their experimental nature, never completely endorse a genre or style and tirelessly crawl through the underground, breathing new life into the creative musical life of southern Italy. Soundtrack […]
Nikos Stavropoulos | Micro-lieuxEmpreintes DIGITALes (CD/DL) Nikos Stavropoulos is a Greek acousmatic music composer, formally educated in the UK and based in Leeds. His strong academic background links his work to the British school of Simon Emmerson and Denis Smalley but, despite his aesthetic being deeply rooted in that field, Nikos has a very personal […]
Koeosaeme | ObanikeshiOrange Milk Recordings (LP/DL) Obanikeshi is the second album by the Japanese artist Ryu Yoshizawa (AKA Koeosaeme) released by Orange Milk Records. Thirteen short tracks featuring light speed electronic patchworks, glossy synthetic sounds and plastic pastel-neon, transparent noises. Like a digital machine gun, track after track, the artist fires out laser grains, bits […]
eRikM and Anthony Pateras are two of the most interesting and prolific figures in the field of contemporary electroacoustic music. While Pateras is known for his revolutionary approach to piano playing and his compositions which attempt to extract characteristics typical of electroacoustic music from regular instruments, eRikM is considered one of the most prominent experimentalists […]
Lee Ranaldo / Jim Jarmusch / Marc Urselli / Balazs Pandi Trost (CD/LP/DL) Two American composers, a Swiss-Italian producer and a Hungarian drummer walk into a studio…This might sound as the beginning of the most bizarre joke ever, but it’s basically the premise at the core of the Grammy awarded studio technician Marc Urselli’s idea. […]
SPIME.IM | ExalandOUS (LP/DL) SPIME.IM is a media art collective from Turin (Italy) known for their cutting edge audio-visual live performances and digital sound. Their debut album Exaland is composed by Gabriele Ottino and Davide Tomat and released on the new-coming label OUS. At a first glance the album feels a bit stereotypical. The references […]
Tapage & Gareth Davis | STATESMoving Furniture Records (LP/DL) Tapage (Tijs Ham) is a composer and researcher from Holland, based in Bergen (Norway). During his long activity he has built a strong aesthetic identity and has been working with the exploitation of chaotic elements in algorithmic composition, to develop responsive and generative systems with a […]
Alvin Curran | Dead Beats – performed by Reinier van Houdt Moving Furniture Records (CDx2/DL) Alvin Curran is without any doubt one of the main figures in contemporary music composition. The American artist, based in Rome, has in his long and prolific career worked out an enormous quantity of pieces in an incredible range of […]
In an email exchange, Lawrence English shares with us some very deep insights about the poetics and politics of listening, and expands upon his collaborations. GP: Dear Lawrence, thank you for accepting my invitation for this interview. Let’s talk about an interest we definitely have in common: Listening. How do you listen? LE: With intent. GP: […]
Alessandra Eramo is a Italian musician and vocal performer based in Germany. Originally from Basilicata, one of the most isolated and unreachable areas of continental southern Italy, and therefore still very authentic. She tells us a story of desertification and abandonment of this forgotten area and outlines with us an image of a place that […]
Raffaele Pezzella has been very active in the past year producing and divulging experimental music from remote areas of the world such as Africa, Lebanon, Russia and Iran showing that often, beyond the vestiges of cultural post-colonialism, there is a realm of very skilled artists that are totally extraneous to our environment. I was lucky […]
Zeno Van Den Broek | BreachMoving Furniture Records (LP/CD/DL) The resonance of Zeno Van Den Broek’s work has grown exponentially in the past few years. His multiple releases on different prestigious labels such as The Tapeworm and Moving Furniture has proven him to be not only prolific but also to ensure an outstanding quality standard […]
Anthony Pateras | Collected Works Vol. II (2005-2018)Immediata (5xCD/DL) The pure musical relationship between Anthony Pateras and me has always been somewhat incomplete. Despite having listened to some of his albums as an improviser and some of his piano works such as Errors of the Human Body and Ataxia where he plays trio with Sean […]
Eric La Casa + Eamon Sprod | Friche: TransitionSwarming (CD/DL) Borders, frontiers, boundaries. These words have gained a certain relevance in today’s western society. With a fearsome diffusion of nationalist movements and sovereign ideologies, the medieval sense of fixed land division obstructs the path towards liquidity and permeability and towards the establishment of a real […]
Juhani Silvola | Post-Biological WildlifeEighth Nerve Audio (CD/DL) I met Juhani when I was invited at his final master concert at the school where I had just enrolled. We overlapped as students for a few days, a timespan over which I had only heard his name, and we had a beer after his concert, but […]
Good Fuck | S/TJoyful Noise Recordings (LP/CD/DL) Who said that work and feelings shouldn’t be mixed together? The music world is actually packed with couples who compose and produce together. The White Stripes, Essaie Pas, John Lennon with Yoko Ono, Albano & Romina, ABBA, just to name a few… Still, only a few of those […]
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