Nate Mercereau
Nate Mercereau talks with the Golden Gate. Angeleno guitarist Nate Mercereau has just released Duets. Golden Gate Bridge, an album of ambient music in the form of curious guitar duets and what Mercereau himself describes in the San Francisco Chronicle as “the world’s greatest wind instrument”: the famous Golden Gate…
Beatriz Ferreyra
“Canto+”, anthology by Beatriz Ferreyra. The Argentinian composer of Musique Concrète Beatriz Ferreyra (Córdoba, 1937), one of the historical members of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales founded by Pierre Schaeffer in the 60s, has just published a new album, Canto+, a short anthology of her compositions written in the last…
Aaron Dilloway
Aaron Dilloway publishes “Lucy & Aaron”. The American composer Aaron Dilloway, founder of the industrial noise band Wolf Eyes and the record label Hanson Records, has just announced the release of two collaborative albums. The first, Lucy & Aaron, already released, is the first album collaboration with the Colombian experimental…
Iosonouncane
“Ira”, by Iosonouncane. Jacopo Incani, a Sardinian composer born in 1983 in the small town of Buggerru, is one of the most interesting Italian musicians on the alternative scene. Incani made his solo debut in 2010 under the alias Iosonouncane (something like “Iamadog”) and his second album, in 2015, was…
A. Schnittke – Arvo Pärt
“Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt. Choral Works 2”. As Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt both adopted the Orthodox faith in the 1970s, Orthodox choral traditions became increasingly prominent in their work, but both composers also looked to the music of the Western church. Schnittke’s Three Sacred Hymns set three prayers, familiar…
Tomasz Sroczynski
“Symphony ‘Highlander’”, by Tomasz Sroczynski. Polish composer and violinist Tomasz Sroczyński (Radomsko, 1987) has just released his Symphony No. 2 ‘Highlander’ on the French label Icy D’Ailleurs. Known for his Symphony No. 1 ‘Resurrection’ (released in 2017 on Sygnal Records) and his variations on The Rite of Spring, together with…
Arooj Aftab
“Vulture Prince”, by Arooj Aftab. Arooj Aftab is a Pakistani neo-Sufi (as she defines herself) minimalist singer/songwriter, born in Saudi Arabia in 1985 but raised in Pakistan, where she lived from the age of eleven to twenty, when she moved to the United States to study at the Berklee College…
Ludovico Einaudi
“Nomadland”, by Ludovico Einaudi and others. Nomadland was the winner of the 2021 Oscars for best film, best director (Chloé Zhao) and best actress (Frances McDormand). An American road movie directed by a Chinese filmmaker and with a soundtrack featuring six pieces composed by the Italian Ludovico Einaudi… As a…
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
«G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!», de Godspeed You! Black Emperor. La trayectoria de la banda canadiense Godspeed You! Black Emperor dura ya casi treinta años en el tiempo, pero no es muy extensa discográficamente hablando (aunque ha sido fructífera en proyectos paralelos: desde Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra a…
Clara Peya
“Perifèria”, by Clara Peya. Eleven albums to her name in thirteen years… the Spanish pianist and composer Clara Peya (Palafrugell, 1986), the current leading representative of one of the currents of Spanish musical minimalism, has a torrential need to express herself. Song albums, concept albums, instrumental albums… The complete commentary…
Caroline Shaw
“Narrow Sea”, by Caroline Shaw. The American composer Caroline Shaw (Greenville, North Carolina, 1982) was in 2013, at the age of thirty, the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music, for her a cappella piece Partita for eight voices. My full review of her new album, Narrow Sea, can…