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AMN Picks of the Week: Reid, Edwards & Coudouv / Chantal Michelle / Jessica Pavone / Llyn Y Cwn / Quasar

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Reid / Edwards / Coudouv – Reid / Edwards / Coudoux (2021)Chantal Michelle – […]

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AMN Reviews: Chantal Michelle – ℎ−  2−   ℎ−  −  2 ℎ− (2024; Dinzu Artefacts)

There is a visceral realness to the sound journeys of Chantal Michelle. Her offerings on this oddly titled album are textural and rough, consisting of fricative drones and oscillations as well as abstract viola and alto sax from Joanna Mattrey and Lea Bertucci, respectively. They could represent slow-moving natural processes, the ponderous operation of post-industrial […]

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AMN Picks of the Week: Richard Bégin / Mendoza Hoff Revels / Alphaxone & Dronny Darko / Chantal Michelle

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Richard Bégin – Machine Mycelium – Deux Circuits (2022)Mendoza Hoff Revels – Echolocation […]

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AMN Reviews: Experimental Ambient Summer Releases Part 3 – Alphaxone & Dronny Darko / Chantal Michelle

Experimental, electroacoustic, or dark ambient – however you’d like to refer to it – is a broad and growing genre that continues to evolve decades into its existence. Here, we carry on with our reviews of a handful of recent releases. Alphaxone & Dronny Darko – Beyond the Event Horizon (2023; Cryo Chamber) As far […]

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AMN Picks of the Week: Fistfights with Wolves / Chaigidel & Neraterrae / Chantal Michelle / Karen Vogt / Aidan Baker

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Fistfights with Wolves – The Sheep That Eats the Wolf (2023)Chaigidel & Neraterrae […]

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AMN Reviews: Chantal Michelle – Broken to Echoes (2023; Somewhere Between Tapes)

Chantal Michelle returns on Broken to Echoes, a follow-up to last year’s Pulse, Puls​-​ar, Procession. On it, she combines synth motifs, drones, voices, field recordings, electronics, clarinet, and guitar, some of these provided by guest musicians. The album starts with clear choral vocals, but over the course of eight short tracks, the other sound sources […]

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AMN Reviews: Chantal Michelle – Pulse, Puls​-​ar, Procession (2022; Dinzu Artefacts)

Pulse, Puls​-​ar, Procession is a single 24-minute track of field recordings, violin, sax, and electronics. It is centered around quiet, wafting atmospherics generated from manipulation of the field recordings. This is apparent at its outset, with a sax drone merging into recordings of running and sloshing water accompanied by hazy static. Michelle employs loops and […]

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AMN Picks of the Week: GEORGE / Skrika / Chantal Michelle / Collier-Ford et al. / Common Eider, King Eider / Hands Holding the Void

Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. GEORGE – Letters To George (2022)Skrika – Soludenia (2022)Chantal Michelle – Pulse, Puls-ar, […]

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Reviews You May Have Missed – March 2024

Last month we published a number of original reviews of some very interesting music. Check out the list below.

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Extended Techniques NYC Calendar February 2024

Source: extended techniques. THURSDAY, February 1 1st Annual Out Music Festival 7:30 Tomas Fujiwara Trio Tomas Fujiwara – drums Darius Jones – alto sax 8:30 BREW – record release Gerry Hemingway – drums Reggie Workmam – bass Miya Masaoka – koto 9:30 McPhee/Rosen Joe McPhee – sax Jay Rosen – drums VENUE: Theater for the […]