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TRACK: Hear Naoko Sakata’s ‘Improvisation 3’ – free piano expression leads for album for Anna von Hausswolff’s label

NAOKO SAKATA is a supremely free, expressive, elemental pianist, very much cheerful and thriving in the avant-garde end of the modern piano spectrum. Born in Japan, she’s now based in…

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NEWS: Ólafur Arnalds announces details of short film, ‘When We Are Born’; watch the trailer

ICELAND’S modern compositional phenomenon Ólafur Arnalds has announced details of a new short film, entitled When We Are Born, which is set to premiere worldwide on March 7th. You can watch the…

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TRACK: Vetle Nærø – ‘Waves’: 7K! sign excellent young Norwegian solo pianist

BERLIN’S 7K! imprint, the ambient and modern compositional flipside to legendary dance label !K7, has signed a really rather gorgeous new pianist talent, Denmark’s Vetle Nærø – and he really…

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News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’

SONY has decided to get itself a little of the modern compositional pie and to that end, has set up a new progressive instrumental label, XXIM Records; which has opened…

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TRACK: Magnus John Anderson -‘Elkhorn’: studio wizard steps out with modern compositional piano

ONE OF the sea changes we’re seeing from all this viral upheaval is the emergence of artists finding their own voice in order to create, whereas previously they might have…

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EP REVIEW: Clarice Jensen – ‘Anu Mosir’: a quarter-hour of deft cello and electronics

Anu Mosir is a gorgeous way to spend a quarter of an hour of your time. Put it on repeat, let it maybe move beyond a rudely fractional usage of your day

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SEE: Mike Lazarev – ‘Out Of Time’: a beautiful new compositional voice

MIKE LAZAREV is a London-based, Kyiv-born composer with a real feel for the filmic. Leaving behind a country torn by political upheaval and persecution, he and his family moved to…

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TRACK: A Winged Victory For The Sullen – ‘So That The City Can Begin To Exist’

THAT delicious combination of Stars of the Lid amniotic drone wizard Adam Wiltzie, and pianist and composer Dustin O’Halloran, are poised and ready to release their new album, the music…

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TRACK: A Winged Victory For the Sullen – ‘Desires Are Already Memories’: O’Halloran and Wiltzie return

THAT glorious combination of Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan’s amniotic drone sustain voyager, Adam Wiltzie, and modern piano composer, Dustin O’Halloran, who ply their seductive trade as…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Gabriel Ólafs – ‘Absent Minded Reworks’: Icelandic piano prodigy receives very fine electronica rerubs

ICELANDIC composer and pianist Gabríel Ólafs – who wrote his debut LP, Absent Minded, aged just 14 – is always happy to offer his beautiful music for reinterpretation – by…

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