Year Ender: Forbes Graham
The great Boston trumpet & composer player breaks down his favorites from that year we're already trying to forget.
modern composition
Matt Robidoux – Brief Candles
Brief Candles by matt robidoux MATT ROBIDOUX is out in San Francisco these days. And the former east coaster is still switched…
Ellen Arkbro – For Organ and Brass
Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro wrote the three pieces on For Organ and Brass (Subtext) in a historical tuning called meantone temperament, which…
One For – Our Lady of Sorrows
One For is a musician who studies trombone at NEC but whose real instrument and compositional tool is a Gameboy. All sounds…
Scott Fields – Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
SCOTT FIELD’s BURNING IN WATER, DROWNING IN FLAME is a contemplative downer of masterful improvisation. A more thorough deconstruction of acoustic guitar…
M. Dwinell — Golden Ratio
M. Dwinell’s Golden Ratio is a curious thing. On this LP, Dwinell plays an electric organ using “a natural tuning system generated…
Nick Storring — Endless Conjecture
What is this album about? What is anything about? On his new tape, ENDLESS CONJECTURE, the Toronto-based electroacoustic composer and multi-instrumentalist NICK…
FIVE HEADY EXPERIMENTAL ALBUMS FROM 2014
Just in time for the New Year (our bad! – Dan), here’s five great albums bursting with heady sounds from 2014’s offering…
PHILIP CORNER – SATIE SLOWLY
PHILIP CORNER is an experimental composer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist born in NYC in 1933. He’s a founding member of Fluxus, a…
KEVIN DRUMM/ JASON LESCALLEET – THE ABYSS
THE ABYSS is a demanding album; demanding of your attention (at times it dips to nearly zero for lengthy periods of time),…
NICK STORRING – GARDENS
NICK STORRING is a cellist, sound artist and composer from Toronto, best known for the electroacoustic specimens he’s been putting together since…
BRANDON SEABROOK – SYLPHID VITALIZERS
“An assault on the ears” is only one end (the loud, wild end) of the spectrum that BRANDON SEABROOK‘s music encompasses. Valleys of…
