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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Sofie Birch – Holotropica
Sofie Birch gives ambient music a new colour with this charming but unconventionally composed record.
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Valentina Goncharova
It is almost criminal that Valentina Goncharova doesn’t have much purchase in the general consciousness; maybe this timely reissue of her Symphony For Electric Violin And Other Instruments in 10+ Parts will change that, I argue in The Quietus.
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Inner Ear: Slovenian Music
In my third report from the contemporary music scenes of eastern and central Europe, I look at Slovenia’s underground scene including Širom’s imaginary folk and string experiments by Tomaž Grom.
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