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Category Archives: 2015
fraufraulein | extinguishment (2015)
Anne Guthrie and Billy Gomberg have been playing together as Fraufraulein for years now, and have recorded a number of albums, but this is my first encounter with the duo. Guthrie is a French horn player, Gomberg plays bass guitar, … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, eai
Tagged Anne Guthrie, Another Timbre, Billy Gomberg, Fraufraulein
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radu malfatti | one man and a fly (2015)
Radu Malfatti has covered a fair bit of ground over the years, from his early post-jazz/free improv playing to his ’90s reinvention as a Wandelweiser composer to his various collaborations with Mattin, Keith Rowe, and many others. One thing he’s … Continue reading
michael pisaro | melody, silence (2015)
Here’s a solo guitar composition from 2011 by Michael Pisaro, performed with great sensitivity by Cristián Alvear, a Chilean guitarist who’s quickly establishing himself as one of the great interpreters of modern avant music. This piece is fairly typical of … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, composition
Tagged Cristián Alvear Montecino, Michael Pisaro, Potlatch, Wandelweiser
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éric la casa / taku unami | parazoan mapping (2015)
Here’s another challenging, provocative album from the recent Erstwhile Records batch. Like a lot of records in this area of late, it’s a tricky blend of styles and approaches, seemingly highly conceptual in nature but without spelling out what its … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, eai, field recordings, musique concrète
Tagged Éric La Casa, Erstwhile Records, Taku Unami
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graham lambkin / michael pisaro | schwarze riesenfalter (2015)
Lambkin and Pisaro are two of the most exciting musicians around, albeit in very different ways and for very different reasons. There is, on the surface, a sizeable gap between Lambkin’s raw, intense sound collages and the more studied, rigorous … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, composition, field recordings, musique concrète
Tagged Erstwhile Records, Graham Lambkin, Michael Pisaro, Wandelweiser
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