Crucial Listening #157: Nicole Rampersaud
Fountains of ideas, mind blown in Rap City, candy wrapper responses. The New Brunswick-based trumpet player, improviser and composer discusses three important albums.
Jack Chuter
Review: Petra Dubach + Mario van Horrik – WAVES Trinity
Three strings are suspended from the walls, yet nothing happens unless they're brought into connection with eachother.
Crucial Listening #156: Michelle Moeller
Dizzy rhythms, slippery transitions, sincerity and playfulness. The Oakland-based composer and performer discusses three important albums.
Review: sawako – sounds
18 tracks, 33 minutes. In memoriam Sawako Kato (1978-2024).
Review: Zosha Warpeha – silver dawn
Improvised vignettes for Hardanger d’amore, informed by Nordic folk traditions and a spacious, mindful repetition.
Crucial Listening #155: Adam Wiltzie
Obstetric ambient, sullen atmospheres, episodic engulfment. The classical ambient composer discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #154: Kenneth Kirschner
Train breakdown Feldman epiphanies, radical flatness in the primeval forest, the Gary Numan barracks theft. The New York-based composer discusses three important albums.