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…
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
«Hell or High Water» and «Mars», by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. They are the fashionable pair in the composition of soundtracks for uncommercial films. Now we have two more, the one they composed for Hell or High Water (a kind of western set in the present day) and the…
Yann Tiersen
«Eusa», de Yann Tiersen. Fifteen years have passed since Yann Tiersen became famous for his soundtrack for the film Amélie, and it is high time that he was appreciated beyond that discovery, which already weighs like a burden, just as Nyman’s The Piano weighs like a burden. Tiersen now releases…
Scott Walker
“The Childhood of a Leader”, by Scott Walker. The stressed and claustrophobic world that the former Walker Brothers balladeer has been showing since he dynamited the bridges with easy listening music with Tilt, in 1995, reached its highest peak with Bish Bosch (2012) and, while he was at it, he…
Peter Baumann
“Machines of Desire”, by Peter Baumann. Thirty-three years of almost absolute recording silence mean that Machines of Desire, the return of Peter Baumann, must be considered, to say the least, with an interest bordering on the eventful. Baumann was co-founder of Tangerine Dream, a band par excellence of the so-called…
Laurie Anderson
“Heart of a Dog”, by Laurie Anderson. A multidisciplinary artist, Laurie Anderson now shows (once again, in fact) her dimension as a philosopher. Heart of a Dog is a film/documentary – which could be seen at the last edition of the San Sebastian Festival – about her deceased dog, Lolabelle,…
Max Richter publishes his 8 hours long “Sleep”
Deutsche Grammophon releases Max Richter’s eight-hour-long “Sleep” in its entirety. Max Richter is, along with Thomas Adès, the most important composer in the United Kingdom after the generation of Michael Nyman and Gavin Bryars. Author of numerous soundtracks such as those for Waltz with Bashir or the HBO series The…
