Archive for March, 2015
Review: Yasunao Tone + Talibam! + Sam Kulik – Double Automatism
Bodily re-wiring and improvisation subsumed by the nausea of digi-corruption.
Review: Pauline Oliveros + Timothy Hill + David Rothenberg – Cicada Dream Band
Flirtatious nature and improvisatory curveball, in a dialogue for instruments and animals.
Review: Teresa Winter – Oh Tina, No Tina
Ascending into partial memories, in a new half-hour tape on Reckno.
Review: Dean McPhee – Fatima’s Hand
Self-reflection in solo electric guitar, and a delicate rouse from four years of silence.
Review: Akatombo – Sometime, Never
Paul Thomsen Kirk re-purposes dance music’s infinite return as a purgatory for the dark, the suppressed and the forgotten.
Review: Lotto – Ask The Dust
Gestures I can never know, courtesy of double bass, guitar and drums.
Interview: Joe Snape
The Berlin-based composer talks about the omnipresence of melody, breaking instruments and his new album, Brittle Love.
Interview: Francisco López
The Madrid-born sound artist discusses extreme dynamic range and the arrangement of space, ahead of his quadrophonic performance at Cafe Oto this Saturday.
Review: Delphine Dora – Près du coeur sauvage
Songs of fluidity and porosity for piano, voice and the coming and going of memory.
Review: Roger Turner + Otomo Yoshihide – The Last Train
Guitars and drums used as they shouldn’t be, in a super live interchange recorded at the Hara Museum in Tokyo.