Nicolas Jaar ~ The Prism ~ Don’t Break My Love
The prism is an aluminum cube, small enough to fit in your palm. It was designed by Jaar as a new medium for releasing music. This first release – CSA001 – features twelve (mostly) unreleased songs from Jaar and other Clown & Sunset collaborators. The prism is a piece of art in and of itself;...
Max Richter > Daniel Hope > Vivaldi > Four Seasons Recomposed
Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed”...
Beck – Song Reader
I started to think about what kind of songs have a quality that allows others to inhabit them and to make them their own. What is it about a song that lets you sing it around a campfire, or play it at a wedding? Is it the simplicity of the sentiment? A memorable melody? What...
Max Cooper Reconstruction – Michael Nyman – Secrets, Accusations & Charges
Raised in Belfast and now resident in London, Max Cooper is an electronica and techno producer. His best-known releases are the Serie trilogy, three dancefloor tracks whose related videos by animator Whiskas Fx were each inspired by a different scientific or mathematical concept. Like fellow electronica musicians Caribou and Floating Points,
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka: Draw A Map
Hilary Hahn & Hauschka: “Draw A Map” directed by Eric Epstein Hilary Hahn & Hauschka – Via www.hahnandhauschka.com by Wyndham Wallace It doesn’t take long talking to Hilary Hahn, the prodigiously talented American violinist, and Volker Bertelmann, the German master of prepared-piano known to music fans as Hauschka, to recognize the genuine enthusiasm and excitement...
Justice – Variations on a theme by ZZT
The 2007 Justice remix of ZZT’s Lower State of Consciousness. A definitive example of maximalism featuring the musical ideas of 2 exceptional 00′s electronic composers with an abundance of glitch, a decidedly apocalyptical mood and a transcendental crescendo proceeding the drop. ZZT – Lower State of Consciousness (Justice remix) ZZT – Lower State of Consciousness...
Andrew Bird – Bird en Boucle
via Blogotheque I remember a brief conversation with Andrew Bird, after his concert at the “Route du Rock” Festival in Normandy in 2009. I ask him what he plans to do after his festival tour is over. He smiles and tells me that he’s going to relax. It’s been eleven years since he last took...
Julia Holter > Marienbad, In The Same Room
First Listen: Julia Holtner, Ekstasis – via NPR by LARS GOTRICH When the world is at the tip of anyone’s fingers, there’s little space for a true vanguard of sound. Think about it: When was the last time you heard or saw something entirely new? Experiences like Gaspar Noe’s film Enter the Void and Scott...
american music / quatuor diotima
Steve Reich – Different trains – After the war We’re in an american mood lately at suite. great release from naive with an awesome piece from steve reich, samuel barbers only string quartet and a positively deranged composition from george crumb. American Music Steve Reich (b. 1936) Different trains, for string quartet and tape (1988)...
Four Tet – Moma
Four Tet – Moma by Four Tet Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden) did this beautiful track for the Blonde Redhead-curated We Are the Works in Progress compilation raising funds to support Japan in the post-tsunami effort to rebuild. The album will be out Jan 20th – Link
Hauschka > Radar > Joe’s Pub
German composer Hauschka is just as comfortable with using drum machines for percussion as he is with Tic Tacs. But his new recordings certainly take a cue from the backbone of the former, melding his circuitous piano playing with something that resembles dance music. For his New York show at Joe’s Pub, he used a...
Panda Bear > Alsatian Darn Video
Directed by Ara Peterson Video by Dave Fischer and Ara Peterson c + p 2011 Paw Tracks
