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Track: Deniz Cuylan – ‘Object Of Desire’: a second luscious essay in solo guitar pastoralism

TURKISH multi-instrumentalist and composer Deniz Cuylan, whose altogether lovely experimental classical guitar essay “Flaneurs In Hakon” we fell for a fortnight back, has proved that he has plenty more guitar…

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Album review: Neil Cowley – ‘Hall Of Mirrors’: A love letter to a city and an instrument

Neil Cowley has been on a journey away from, and returning to, the piano; Hall Of Mirrors is a striking love letter to the instrument, and also to his adopted city of Berlin. But all these conceptual asides fade away beneath the main thrust: it's a truly bloody great record. Buy.

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Album review: Rutger Hoedemaekers – ‘The Age Of Oddities’: a breathtaking, humanistic debut for 130701

Stirring, seeking, wide-spectrum emotional,The Age Of Oddities is a stunning debut and part-tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson from a friend and collaborator; 130701 has the golden touch at present

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See: Eydís Evensen – ‘Wandering II’: gliding pastoralism from Icelandic composer

SONY is venturing into the world of modern composition and has set up a new imprint, XXIM Records, to issue musics from that liminal space where classical abuts ambient and…

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Album review: Mike Lazarev – ‘Out Of Time’: a miniature soundtrack to an imaginary film

Mike's a man out of step with chronos maybe, but not with the muse. As with Sonic Cathedral's Cheval Sombre, who's beautiful album in a very different discipline we looked at just last week, Mike seems to have time troubling his heart; its grinding linearity, its inexorability; the way it makes you miss things, yearn for things, regret. It's a clever little record and a lovely one, too

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Track: Niklas Paschburg – ‘Little Orc’ (Uele Lamore Remix): an impressionistic and cinematic retake

FOLLOWING on from the experimental pop of “Bathing In Blue”, in tandem with British vocalist Millie Turner last November, modern compositional pianist and composer Niklas Paschburg has once more offered…

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Album review: A Winged Victory For the Sullen – ‘Invisible Cities’: thrilling set pushes way beyond polite ambience

Invisible Cities is an intriguing and challenging accompaniment to a multimedia work of the same name. It's also a cracking record in its own right, which is beautiful and textural and also genuinely thrilling in passages, and proves that A Winged Victory For the Sullen are not content to sit inside the pocket of modern composition and await their tribute; but wish to push onwards, much further onwards.

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See: Deniz Cuylan – ‘Flaneurs In Hakone’: stunning, chiming guitar soli from Turkish composer

IT ALL started with Beethoven’s Fifth. That’s LA-based, Istanbul-born composer and exponent of modern guitar composition Deniz Cuylan’s first and wholly abiding memory of music; it’s the early Eighties, he’s…

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Album review: Samuel Sharp – ‘Patterns Various’: diaristic, timeless sax explorations

Patterns Various sits in a emerging tradition of very beautiful single-instrument essays; a very personal journey, and a very English one, captures its moments so well that people will be sure to revisit it for decades to come

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Track: Mike Lazarev – ‘Finale’: Ukrainian composer drops the final curtain from next week’s delicious mini-album

THE IDEA of a soundtrack to an imaginary film is something we here at Backseat Mafia love straight off the bat, right back to when we fell for Barry Adamson’s…

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