"Alva Noto's award winning score for the 2022 German documentary film 'This Stolen Country of Mine' directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese features nineteen compositions to be released on NOTON in April 2023. The documentary film explores the question of a state's ...
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"Formed in 1976, by 1990, The Fall had been through 18 line ups, releasing 14 albums and 24 singles - The only constant was leader, vocalist Mark Edward Smith - welded to the work ethic, creating music that stunned in its obscure brilliance; railing against mediocrity, ...
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"The final two LPs in the latest Ictus batch, "The Ictus Archives Vol. 1" and "The Ictus Archives Vol. 2", both draw on the same period that the veteran saxophonist produced "Clangs" and "Trio Live", both recorded in 1976 during of two weeks that he was touring Italy ...
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"The Italian Ictus imprint was founded in 1976 by percussionist and composer, Andrea Centazzo, and his wife Carla Lugli. Running for just under a decade, until relaunching during the mid-2000s, the label produced a couple of dozen highly celebrated releases, the ...
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Kölner Rundfunkorchester, Jan Latham-König
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"In the history of free improvised music, there has been arguably no greater advocate for the idiom's power and potential than the English guitarist Derek Bailey. Fiercely principled, between his emergence during the 1960s and his death in 2005, he cut a wide path, ...
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"Ich weiß nicht ich weiß nicht. Setzen Sie sich so abgebundene Strumpfkalotten auf die Köpfe, wie mein Papa sie immer zu seinen alten Arbeitsmänteln am Bau von unserem Einfamilienhäuschen getragen hat. Etwas Hässlicheres habe ich nie gesehen. Ich weiß nicht, ...
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"Prepare yourself for a liberation of your senses. prepare for an irresistible taste of the 50s in all of it's sonic sci-fi glory because this caravan of sound is where head music really began! For a period in 1955, Henry Jacobs, the grandmaster of left coast zen ...
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