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VIDEO PREMIERE : Automatisme & Erinome – Transport 4
I’ve got a Video Premiere for you on this Saturday morning, folks, from a curious Omaha-based Neologist Productions imprint, releasing experimental music on cassettes and even videotapes as their...
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Tim Linghaus – Memory Sketches (Schole Inc. / 1631 Recordings)
[On one hand], this album is like a drive through the years of my past life and the past lives of family members from one material point to the other, it is a reflection on time, life and death. On...
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In the studio with Zinovia Arvanitidi
Let’s start at the very beginning. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? I was around 8 years old when I started taking piano lessons. We had...
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On Meditation and Music…
Throughout the last decade of writing about music, I have made a few references to my meditation practice. In turn, people who share my views on this study of self-introspection, have asked about my...
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Sound Bytes : Paddy Mulcahy, Emmanuel Witzthum and Muriël Bostdorp
Paddy Mulcahy From Water A little over a year after his patient fusion of close mic’d solo piano with delicate synthesizer constructions on The Words She Said, Irish-born, Montreal-based...
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‘k”– insistence on purity
Kevin Gabriel returns to Headphone Commute podcast with his latest offering, titled insistence on purity. This is a very eclectic selection of tracks, a bit gloomy and noir-fi, exactly how I like it,...
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Chihei Hatakeyama – Butterfly’s Summer And Vanished (White Paddy Mountain)
sometimes my words seek no hearer. they land on these pages of virtual paper and wait there, with others’ words, useless and hateful, which spread in a broadcast of angst and confusion. so I plant a...
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PvC – No Stars
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times...
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Wolf’s Kompaktkiste : I’ll show you mine…
Editor’s Note: I was originally planning to reformat, edit, and restructure this feature, but once I started working on it, I gave up on the idea. It’s not that I’m lazy (you already know that, right?)...
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TRACK PREMIERE : Resina – Surface
Many things make us feel like something is dropping out of our hands – including those connected to the sense of loss. For me it was a loss of illusions. I wonder if thinking about ourselves as rather...
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Warmth – Parallel (Archives)
It’s difficult to live up to my expectations with a project name like Warmth. The word itself portrays a state of comfort, a cordial sensation, a tender quality of life. There is a sense of slow and...
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Erik K Skodvin & Rauelsson – A Score for Darling (Sonic Pieces)
A Score For Darling opens up like a warm up to an orchestral performance, where carefully tuned strings are preparing to fall in line [in love?] with their prescribed storyline. And what a storyline...
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Interview with Warmth
Hello Agustin, where are you right now, and what did you do this past weekend? Hi, Mike. Well, I live in Valencia, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Nothing out of the ordinary, to be honest. I...
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Sound Bytes : Denovali Special : Terminal Sound System, Prairie, and Nadia...
In this Sound Bytes entry, I’d like to celebrate the latest releases from Denovali Records, a German label (and a festival!) which has been consistent in its output since its launch (and my discovery)...
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Sound Bytes : Luton, Crisopa, and Clarice Jensen
It’s easy to get caught up in a torrent of music. You follow a trend, a playlist, these words, and suddenly a wave of the immensity of it all swallows you back and drags down with the current. At least...
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From the Mouth of the Sun – Sleep Stations (Lost Tribe Sound)
With their third consecutive release on Lost Tribe Sound, it seems that the duo of Aaron Martin and Dag Rosenqvist as From the Mouth of the Sun have found an ideal home for their music on the...
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Celer – Nacreous Clouds [Remastered] (Two Acorns)
After a decade of these words on this music, I think I am slowly beginning to drift into that period of reminiscence, reflection and nostalgia, which is often associated with “the way things were”....
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VIDEO PREMIERE : Strië – Perpetual Journey
Olga Wojciechowska‘s album as Strië, titled Perpetual Journey, came out on Serein earlier this year. See Headphone Commute coverage here. “Inspired by the true story of Laika, a stray dog sent into...
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Monique Recknagel : I’ll show you mine…
[Editor’s Note: Monique Recknagel is the founder and owner of the beloved Sonic Pieces label, based in Berlin, responsible for bringing us those wonderful gems from Erik K Skodvin, Deaf Center, Moon...
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Luke Howard – Open Heart Story (Mercury KX)
Luke Howard‘s compositions have been organically developing throughout the years, slowly growing in their scope, execution and themes. There is still a melancholy side to all new pieces, the one that...
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