"The fluid exchanges between musicians reveal how carefully considered both harmonic and rhythmic interplay are and how each chart plays to the strengths of one particular musician or subgroup. Despite the musical sophistication and adventure...this music is extremely ...
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RUNE486 | CUNEIFORM RECORDS
"This ensemble is a pioneering Norwegian chamber group whose work on ECM and Hubro has redefined the boundaries between jazz, contemporary composition and folk music. Across seven albums, the ensemble has developed a highly distinctive language built on restraint, ...
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ASPEN025 | ASPEN EDITIES
"Clan Caimán, led by composer Emilio Haro, is a group from Argentina, but their timeless, organic music transcends nationality. "Pica-Pau" (woodpecker), their third album, is their most abstract and minimal to date, but this is not a cold abstraction nor an austere ...
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EM1213CD | EM RECORDS
"On Love Him, Italian turntablist & sampling artist, Okapi (Filippo Paolini), masterfully conducts a plundered symphony of more than 100 elements to celebrate the notorious Kyrgyz c. Somewhere in between record digging, electro-acoustic tomfoolery & slot- machine ...
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IA120 | ILLEGAL ART
"Whereas their album debut Husene våre er museer (2018) and its follow-up Susurrus (2021) focused on collective and individual compositions, Aerial features two longform pieces of fully improvised music, sculpted from the recognizable acoustic sound palette that the ...
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ASPEN024 | ASPEN EDITIES
"This ensemble is a pioneering Norwegian chamber group whose work on ECM and Hubro has redefined the boundaries between jazz, contemporary composition and folk music. Across seven albums, the ensemble has developed a highly distinctive language built on restraint, ...
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ASPEN025 | ASPEN EDITIES
"This ensemble is a pioneering Norwegian chamber group whose work on ECM and Hubro has redefined the boundaries between jazz, contemporary composition and folk music. Across seven albums, the ensemble has developed a highly distinctive language built on restraint, ...
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ASPEN025 | ASPEN EDITIES
"Here is a portal to a vast and relatively unknown world, the Japanese cyber-occult underground media scene of the early 1990s; our guide is the late Henry Kawahara, a media artist and electronic music producer whose expansive and visionary conception of digital ...
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EM1205TCD | EM RECORDS
"Since Lieven Martens Moana's(Dolphins Into The Future) last lp, the massively overlooked "Music from the Guardhouse", our composer has moved from the islands of Okinawa to the Swampland of Mexico City to the Portuguese countryside, running his Private Press, and ...
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ECN16.1 | EDICOES CN
"In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of the new artistic possibilities provided by the advent of personal computers. In this installation, a culmination of ...
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EMC-019LP | EM RECORDS
"At long last, Takao is back with his long-awaited second album, seven years in the making. His 2018 "Stealth" was (and still is) a much-loved set, mixing elements of ambient and environmental music; with this new release Takao breaks free of the gravitational pull of ...
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EM1220 | EM RECORDS
"In conjunction with the 2025 re-pressing of the Nora Guthrie "Emily's Illness/Home Before Dark" 7-inch single, we have here, in the same format, a lovely cover of the latter tune, performed by Eddie Marcon, a band based in Himeji, Japan. The band's vocalist Eddie ...
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EM1222SS | EM RECORDS
