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Track: Kiasmos reveal beautiful juxtaposition of modern classical and electronica on new track, Burst

Kiasmos, the collaborative project of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen, is back with exciting news about their forthcoming album ‘II’, slated for release on July 5th…

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Track: Sheherazaad – Dhund Lo Mujhe

Following her highly praised first single for ‘Mashoor‘, late last year, American composer and vocalist Sheherazaad has announced details of her forthcoming LP ‘Qasr’, (Translating to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu) is set for…

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Track: Peter Broderick and Ensemble 0 release unreleased Arthur Russell track, Give It To The Sky. Watch beautiful accompanying live video, here

It seems as more time passes since his death, the more the extraordinary musical cannon of Arthur Russell is explored and appreciated. Musician and composer Peter Broderick has teamed up…

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PREMIERE: Piers Thibault stuns with the brief and brilliant ‘Dusk’, announces debut EP ‘Ire’

If you’re reading this, we bet there have been times when you’ve wanted to completely lose yourself in a piece of music. French artist Piers – last name Thibault –…

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Track: Roedelius & Story show us the beauty of four hands working in empathy on the nuanced piano duet, ‘Ba’

PEOPLE can often bandy about terms such as legendary and scion with a carefree laziness; but, when it comes to German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into…

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See: Rival Consoles drops the darkly pulsing choreography of ‘Monster’ ahead of tomorrow’s album

WITH a sooo hotly anticipated album, Overflow, out in the racks tomorrow, December 3rd, for Erased Tapes – the label originally set up specifically to bring Ryan Lee West’s musical…

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News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’

A GENUINE, gilt-edged musical legend, German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, is to enter into a two-way piano conversation with American…

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Track: Rival Consoles – ‘I Like’: generative, alienated and conversational, an off-kilter marriage of speech and silicon

RIVAL CONSOLES are on the home straight towards the release of a new dance-collaborative album, Overflow, in the first days of December, and as you’d expect it’s pristine and beautiful…

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The brilliant Rival Consoles drops the echoing summer chatter of ‘Pulses Of Information’ and announces live dates

WITH a series of British live dates coming up across the autumn – for details of those, pop down the page a little – the brilliant Ryan Lee West, aka…

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Album review: Masayoshi Fujita – ‘Bird Ambience’: a marimba and electronica masterclass for meditative thought

IF YOU like your music deliciously abstract, abstractedly delicious; arranged beautifully, an absolute world of evocative sound; fell hard, for instance, for the albums Ryuichi Sakamoto made with Alva Noto,…

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