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Source: Echoes.
In 1984 Steve Roach released what remains one of his two best known recordings, Structures from Silence. Now, nearly 40 years later he returns to that sound on the album, Rest of Life. It’s a double CD of mostly quiet and deep ruminations. There’s no digeridoos or modular synthesizers, but there is the electric violin of his wife, Linda Kohanov. From their home in the Arizona desert, they talk about revisiting the spirit of Roach’s Structures from Silence, and horses.
Source: Dungeon Synth & Dark Ambient Reviews!!
For the past several years, Ajna has been on fire! The Dark Ambient producer has consistently released great albums spanning sub-genres such as isolationism, drone, hauntology, and other experimental aspects of electronic music. Whatever is on the radar for any particular album, you can rest assure that the results are beyond reproach. Recently I was fortunate to have a few email interactions with the mastermind behind Ajna to get a greater viewpoint of the music, influences, the ardor behind the album artwork and everything in between. The results are embedded in this congenial interview with Ajna and on display is an endless passion for music, photography and spiritual wellbeing. Hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.
Source: PoD.
Page One: a column by Bill Shoemaker
Patricia Brennan: Sound Touch: an interview with Troy Collins
Ezz-thetics: a column by Stuart Broomer
Gerry Hemingway’s Kwambe: A Classic of 1970s Creative Jazz by Daniel Barbiero
Rollins and Rivers: Full Lives by Kevin Whitehead
The Book Cooks:
Holy Ghost: The Life & Death of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler
Richard Koloda (Jawbone Press; London)
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Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins
Aidan Levy (Hachette Books; New York)Moment’s Notice: Reviews of Recent Media
Source: harmonic series.
conversations
Anastassis Philippakopoulos is a composer and pianist. Over a video chat edited for concision we talk about Greece and America, monophony and polyphony, composition and improvisation, rumination and intuition.annotations
Julián Galay – Casa (2018)reviews
Beliah / Heilbron / Majkowski / Shirley – Bertrand Denzler: Low Strings (Confront Recordings, 2023)
Bertrand Denzler / Jason Kahn – Translations (Potlatch, 2022)
Tristan Kasten-Krause and Jessica Pavone – Images of One (Relative Pitch Records, 2023)
Quatuor Bozzini – Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV (Collection QB, 2023)
Biliana Voutchkova & Sarah Davachi – Slow poem for Stiebler (Another Timbre, 2023)
Source: Jazz Journal.
Ian Carr, jazz trumpeter and guiding light of Nucleus, is a highly individualistic musician, an articulate apostle of British jazz and a tireless advocate on behalf of those who believe that the home-grown product is as good as anything being played anywhere else in the world today.
Source: Echoes Podcast.
In the echoes Podcast a preview of the Big Ears Festival 2023. Founder Ashley Capps had his musical epiphany with The Mothers of Invention and their second album, Absolutely Free which, like all early albums from Frank Zappa, had the Edgar Varese quote, “The modern day composer refuses to die.” Capps took that to heart with his musical exploration and Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN. He tells us about some highlights of the line-up that includes John Zorn, Morton Subotnick, Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell and Ibeyi and more. Open your ears wide on Echoes from PRX.
Source: 15 questions.
I am inspired by noises and sounds that I hear, the way the air feels in my lungs and on my skin at different times of the year, and emotional feelings I experience. During the pandemic, I recorded noise I heard around me and used it to make music. Bokyaku is an example.
Source: 15 questions.
I think works of art have always been unfinished, infinite. We have to accept that it’s eventually done because although it can always be developped, it will never be perfect. For me, I feel it when I’m done with a piece.
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