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Andrew Lang – Momentary Senses (Rusted Tone, 2020)

Chris — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:56:00 +0000

I’ve started having strange and vivid dreams again after a reprieve over the Christmas period. The blame of course lies with work and lockdown restrictions, manifesting I assume through the anxieties of circumstance and creative drought of the home-prison. Whilst they’ve been quite potent, I forget almost all of them come the afternoon, but sometimes […]

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r beny – Natural Fiction (2020)

Chris — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:21:38 +0000

How do our brains separate out what is real, from what is false? When we dream, the world inside our head is the world, as strange and as incomprehensible as it might seem when we awaken from it. And yet it is a fiction, an internal construct imagined by a part of us that is beyond […]

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Madeleine Cocolas – Ithaca (Room40, 2020)

Chris — Sun, 17 May 2020 14:34:27 +0000

When I was fifteen I went to Iceland on a school trip; we spent a week there, travelling up into the North and then circumnavigating the East coast to return to Reykjavik. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, not only seeing this very alien foreign country in all its icy […]

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Mikael Lind – Contingencies (ARCHIVES, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:12:04 +0000

The world is filled with possibilities and probabilities: every meeting you have, every new connection made, every chance encounter, changes the course of your future in some way. Even fleeting instances can spiral into unforeseen events in your causal timeline, all because of a moment. As another expermentation into live improvisation by Lind, Contigencies embraces the notion […]

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Ian Hawgood – 光 (Eilean, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 19:57:07 +0000

Photons are sometimes referred to as a “wavicle”, a wave-particle. At once they exist as physical particles, predictable in their path and trajectory, and yet also as a wave-function, a probability of occurrence across points in space. Ian Hawgood’s 光 means light, and like the wavicle of the photon this short little record takes two forms. The […]

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Forest Management – Biqui (No Rent Records, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:43:33 +0000

An ode to the love life of Erik Satie, Forest Management’s Biqui details the brief 6 month affair between Satie and his “Biqui”, Suzanne Valadon. In 7 pieces we’re provided a series of gentle, simple, haunting loops that do the Minimalist some justice, and paint a picture of his strange and enigmatic romantic life and heartbreak. Piano […]

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Aries Mond – Come On Let’s Wait (Eilean Records, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:57:58 +0000

I didn’t believe it would snow here this week, certainly not to the degree it did. We’ve heard the doomsday predictions of meteorologists before, and the little local microclimate made it seem all the more unlikely, and yet it did. Prodigiously, briefly. Normal weekday life here just ground to a halt; first as we stopped […]

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Bruno Sanfilippo – Unity (DRONARIVM, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:28:09 +0000

There’s a reductive simplicity in Unity that makes it somewhat difficult to talk about; like lots of Modern Classical and Electroacoustic productions it leans heavily on the violin, cello and in particular the piano to carve out its story lines and textural plot points. It’s not even particularly idiosyncratic; each piece seems to occupy its own distinct […]

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Theodore Schafer – Portrait (Bridgetown Records, 2016)

Chris — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 15:50:52 +0000

The etch of a jawline, the curve of a brow, the particularities of a swept head of hair: all things that come together to define a person’s face for us, all aspects of their facial physique that make them uniquely identifiable. Sitting at his piano at home and musing over its keys in extremely intimate […]

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Andrew Lang – Burnt Shades (Whitelabrecs, 2016)

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2016 16:30:47 +0000

Solo piano recordings are immensely satisfying to me, but they’re tricky to get right. So many of them have been produced over the years that standing out is an increasingly difficult notion, so when a nice 30 minute record like Burnt Shades comes along it’s tremendously refreshing. Performed at home on an old piano, we’re taken through […]

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