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“Songbook #7”, by Mattin

Mattin Artiach launches “Songbook #7”, a tribute to French anarchist Germaine Berton. The Spanish composer, Berlin based, Mattin Artiach is the author of a very extensive discography -in the manner of Throbbing Gristle, who recorded even their rehearsals in the Factory of Death and released countless live recordings of their…

Ingrid Laubrock

“Contemporary Chaos Practices”, by Ingrid Laubrock. Sometimes, the paths of jazz and contemporary music converge without difficulty. The German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock (Stadlohn, 1970) collaborates, in fact, with countless projects, some of them in the field of rock (Polar Bear, Siouxsie & the Banshees). He has lived in New York…

Karlheinz Stockhausen

“Stockhausen: Klavierstücke I-XI”, by S. Liebner. Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) has gone down in history as the most radical visionary of the “music of the future”, and as one of the pillars of contemporary electroacoustic, aleatoric and integral serialist music. His fame was cemented above all in the fields of electroacoustics…

Clemens von Reusner

“Electroacoustic works”, by Clemens Reusner. Contemporary electroacoustic music is often the work of composers who are also very close to technological fields. The German Clemens Von Reusner (Vechelde, 1957) is a composer and computer scientist (software programmer). The current compositions of Electroacoustic Works (seven pieces lasting over an hour), almost…

Kukuruz Quartet

“Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations”, by Kukuruz Quartet. In recent years the figure of the American minimalist composer Julius Eastman (who died in 1990 at the age of forty-nine) has been rediscovered by scholars and musicians alike. The Swiss Kukuruz Quartet is part of this large group of performers determined to…

Maarja Nuut & Ruum

“Muunduja”, by Maarja Nuut & Ruum. The enormous figure of Arvo Pärt (alive and kicking at the age of 83) is the most prominent figure on the Estonian music scene of the 20th and 21st centuries. In an ascending phase, the young singer and violinist Maarja Nuut – born in…

John Adams

“Doctor Atomic”, by John Adams. John Adams is, after Philip Glass, the great operatic figure of American minimalism. In both cases, however, the minimalism of their origins has been left behind, and both explore musical terrains that are no less complex, but more expansive. The 2005 Doctor Atomic, a work…

Th. Bartlett & Nico Muhly

“Peter Pears”, by Thomas Bartlett y Nico Muhly. Both natives of Vermont, where they were born in 1981, singer and pianist Thomas Bartlett and composer Nico Muhly did not meet, however, until 2000, when they matched at New York at Columbia University. Since then, although they have followed separate paths,…

“Landfall”, by Laurie Anderson

“Landfall”, by Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet. Can you believe it? Laurie Anderson, the grand dame of the New York (i.e. international) artistic-musical avant-garde, at seventy years of age, had not yet worked with the Kronos Quartet, the legendary group created by David Harrington in 1973 to spread contemporary music…

Poliedro Kobold (2000)

Poliedro Kobold (2000). The Kobolds, goblins of German legends, inhabitants of the black forest, were dedicated to mining. When they collected the ore, they disregarded the ore, which is the valuable part of it, and collected the gangue, part of the mineral with no material value. Hence, Poliedro Kobold is…

J.G. Entonado & Arín Dodó

“Didactic guide to achieve a sophisticated suicide”. On February 22, 2018, Javier G. Entonado releases Guía didáctica para conseguir un suicidio sofisticado. A transitional album between the experimental rock of Poliedro Kobold and the later free improvisational work of Arín Dodó. It is a work of more advanced experimentation, based…

Richard Pinhas

«Reverse», de Richard Pinhas. French rock is one of the most unknown to the Spanish public. For this reason, the name of Richard Pinhas -sometimes working under the pseudonym Richard Dunn- may not even say anything to the supposed connoisseurs of the avant-garde, despite his 45!!! years of career, in…