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Track: Erland Cooper – A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window

To highlight Mental Health week; BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins invited composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper to write a piece of music that highlights how music and sound can…

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New Music: Max Richter – ‘AD ASTRA’ soundtrack

A sci-fi thriller set in the future, AD ASTRA stars Brad Pitt as an elite astronaut who travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing…

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Album Review : Steve Reich’s ‘Pulse/Quartet’

Steve Reich is the kind of musical figure that lives within several different worlds. He began in tape experimentations, looping, and sound phasing while making social and political statements in…

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Track: Echo Collective – Pyramid Song

Echo Collective, the multi-faceted Belgian collective who have worked with some of the most important players in modern composition, have released their first album Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac on !K7…

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See: Poppy Ackyord releases new video for ‘Paper’

On her recent album Resolve, her first for One Little Indian, post-classical composer Poppy Ackroyd stepped away from using manipulated field recordings, instead using prepared instruments – paper over the…

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Album Review: Anna Von Hausswolff – Dead Magic

Not magic, but Dead Magic is what Gothenburg born musician has focused on in her new (fourth) album, out tomorrow (2nd March) via City Slang. The title suggests the paradox…

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News: Erased Tapes to re-release Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s final album Union Cafe

To mark the 20th year since his untimely passing, Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s mainstay Simon Jeffes son, Arthur, who carries on his fathers legacy under the name Penguin Cafe, has colluded…

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Album Review: Christine Ott – Only Silence Remains

Christine Ott is french composer, pianist and ondist……..a what? well a Ondes Martenot is an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot with which she has played for opéras…

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Festival Review: London Contemporary Music Festival

Spreading a festival over seven murky London nights is an ambitious move. Not only is it near-impossible to attend every single event, but one also gets an overbearing sense that…

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