CV & JAB (+ Vantzou) * Branciforte & Bleckmann
CV & JAB (Christina Vantzou & John Also Bennett) present their third (‘rhizomatic’) collaboration. Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann further explore the musical language they developed earlier.
Category: other-music
Rutger Zuydervelt * Coen Oscar Polack
Rutger Zuydervelt’s score for Lily&Janick’s contemporary circus performance *** Coen Oscar Polack explores new concrete pastures.
Quiet Places * Flocks
Quiet Places presents four sides of associative sonic landscapes, not unlike that of the KLF. Flocks debut album merges Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music with some Krautrock ingredients.
Testen / Šerc * Natasha Barrett * Dorian Wood
Three different approaches to field recordings: a realistic reproduction (Martina Testen & Simon Šerc), completely reconfiguring the landscape (Natasha Barrett), and observing life from within an empty milk jar (Dorian Wood).
Drøne * Rand
Drøne ‘reasserts the feminine while the male world falls apart’ *** Rand’s Peripherie album gets a remix treatment.
Aki Yli-Salomäki * Mardit B. LLeshi/Bledi Boraku
Exploring new (post-classical?) territories with Aki Yli-Salomäki (Finland) and Mardit B. Lleshi / Bledi Boraku (Albania).
Alva Noto * Snorri Hallgrímsson
A new (and award-winning) soundtrack by Alva Noto, and intense melancholy from Snorri Hallgrímsson.
Ulrich Krieger * Olivier Alary
Ulrich Krieger imagines how it must feel 11.000 m below sea level *** Olivier Alary depicts how we are haunted by the past.
The Birdsong Project
Three radioshows I compiled, presenting a selection from the massive 20-LP collection The Birdsong Project.