Acid journey through unknown soundscapes
Eyot Tapes album is a mesmerizing journey through a carefully constructed exotica landscape, recorded with cassette loops, spring reverbs, tape delays, and a modular synthesizer.
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The best of 2022
How will I remember 2022 in music? Through 22 albums in which contemporary material is perfectly intertwined with archival one, 11 compilations and 22 musical memories.
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The best of (the strange sounds of Tripticks Tapes) 2022
Algorithms using an archive of 300 tenor saxophones, amplified vocals and double bass, distorted accordion possibilities or drone possibilities of traditional instruments – Tripticks Tapes offers a colourful curation of unusual explorations of the contemporary improvised scene.
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Please dance! Le Guess Who 2022
In a fifteen minutes I can be in Algeria, Sao Tome, Bogotá, Hokkaido or Ljubljana. This is the essence of the festival: there is a strength in diversity that is as great as nowhere else in Europe.
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Other side of live electronics: Open Source Art Festival 2022
Carefully curated Open Source Art Festival demonstrate different perspectives of presenting electronic music live – even if it’s improvising, using non-standard instrumentation, changing the methodology or skillfully paying attention on visuals.
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Havlovi: now we play four-handed piano
– We have been together for forty years and these years were like a lifetime. We started with two violas da gamba and later played piano and cello on the album Like a Butterfly on your Palm, then added songs on Tenderly to Light. Now we have the time to play four-handed piano – says Vojtěch Havel, a Czech composer and instrumentalist, who plays with Irena Havlová.
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The New Vanguard of Polish Jazz
In Bandcamp Daily I write about 11 young most interesting polish „jazz” bands in these scene report. We also speak what jazz means for them.
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Jaimie Branch (1983-2022)
An outstanding trumpet player, a wonderful human being, and a person who put a great deal of air into jazz in recent years, has passed away.
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The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2022
At the year’s half-way mark, all of tQ’s editorial staff, core writers and columnists have voted for their essential 2022 albums so far, released between January and June. It’s a huge privilege to be able to contribute to The Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far Chart 2022 and to see many of this year’s […]
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RSS B0Y 1 – Mythology
The mysterious RSS B0Y, accompanied by Arash Bolouri, Waclaw Zimpel, Judicious Broski and Marianne Mun, takes us on a post-traditional and post-club journey across the globe
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