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CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

Free internet music: Berglind Tómasdóttir – Icelandic Flute Music

by 5:4 January 28, 2021 • 05:00 0 comment

Free internet music: Sandra Boss – Luft

by 5:4 January 25, 2021 • 05:00 0 comment

Free internet music: Christina Vantzou – Nº2 Remixes

by 5:4 January 21, 2021 • 05:00 0 comment
CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

Free internet music: Nikita Golyshev – 15 Songs from Glass, Oil and...

by 5:4 January 18, 2021 • 11:18 2 comments

Free internet music: Brothomstates – ReKobn-Tich-Ey

by 5:4 January 13, 2021 • 10:06 0 comment

Free internet music: Chelsea Wolfe – Folkadelphia Session 5/31/2014

by 5:4 January 11, 2021 • 10:40 0 comment
CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

Free internet music: Nhung Nguyen – Oblivion

by 5:4 January 8, 2021 • 05:00 0 comment

Free internet music: Andrew Leslie Hooker

by 5:4 January 6, 2021 • 12:11 0 comment

Mixtape #59 : Best Albums of 2020

by 5:4 January 1, 2021 • 07:45 0 comment
Best of the Year

Best Albums of 2020 (Part 2)

by 5:4 December 31, 2020 • 00:00 0 comment

Best Albums of 2020 (Part 1)

by 5:4 December 30, 2020 • 00:00 0 comment

SWR Vokalensemble – Baltikum

by 5:4 December 22, 2020 • 11:32 0 comment

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Berglind Tómasdóttir – Icelandic Flute Music

    by 5:4 January 28, 2021 • 05:00
    January 28, 2021 • 05:00

    For the last two years, in the final week of January i’ve been heading off to Iceland for the annual Dark Music Days festival. Like pretty much all festivals at the moment, DMD has been postponed for a few months, but as a small consolation i’m going to conclude this…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Sandra Boss – Luft

    by 5:4 January 25, 2021 • 05:00
    January 25, 2021 • 05:00

    As i’m sure i’ve lamented previously, the organ is a bit of a neglected instrument in the world of new music. No doubt that’s due in part to its historical associations and also the site-specific nature of so many of them, but all the same, considering the range, power and…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Christina Vantzou – Nº2 Remixes

    by 5:4 January 21, 2021 • 05:00
    January 21, 2021 • 05:00

    There have been numerous occasions when i’ve previously written about and celebrated the art of the remix. Remixes were an integral part of my developing musical taste and understanding at the start of, and throughout, my teens: i got into the habit of buying both the 7-inch and 12-inch versions…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Nikita Golyshev – 15 Songs from Glass, Oil and Other Sources

    by 5:4 January 18, 2021 • 11:18
    January 18, 2021 • 11:18

    We tend to assume nowadays that, once something is put online, it’ll never disappear. But in the case of 15 Songs from Glass, Oil and Other Sources, by Russian experimentalist Nikita Golyshev (aka CD-R), that’s not the case. The album was originally released in 2007 on a netlabel called Musica Excentrica,…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Brothomstates – ReKobn-Tich-Ey

    by 5:4 January 13, 2021 • 10:06
    January 13, 2021 • 10:06

    Three years ago, i featured in my ‘Free internet music’ series a new release from Finnish musician Lassi Nikko, aka Brothomstates, who had surprised everyone at the end of 2017 by suddenly putting out a new 13-minute track after over a decade and a half of silence. In the final…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Chelsea Wolfe – Folkadelphia Session 5/31/2014

    by 5:4 January 11, 2021 • 10:40
    January 11, 2021 • 10:40

    Among my favourite singer-songwriters is Chelsea Wolfe. To spend time with her albums – the last two of which featured in my Best Albums of the Year lists: Birth of Violence in 2019 and Hiss Spun in 2017 – is to become immersed in uniquely spine-tingling worlds of dark lyricism,…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Nhung Nguyen – Oblivion

    by 5:4 January 8, 2021 • 05:00
    January 8, 2021 • 05:00

    Last July, i included in my Isolation Mixtape N an excerpt from Oblivion, a 12-minute work by Vietnamese sound artist Nhung Nguyen. In its entirety it’s an impressive and strikingly beautiful piece, one that sets up an interesting relationship between its various elements. Or is it a relationship at all?…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Andrew Leslie Hooker

    by 5:4 January 6, 2021 • 12:11
    January 6, 2021 • 12:11

    As has been the custom on 5:4 in recent years, i’m starting 2021 with the financial aftermath of the holiday season in mind, exploring some of the more interesting music freely available online. It’s important to stress that, just because it’s available free, doesn’t mean you can’t choose to pay an…

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  • Best of the YearMixtapes

    Mixtape #59 : Best Albums of 2020

    by 5:4 January 1, 2021 • 07:45
    January 1, 2021 • 07:45

    A very Happy New Year to you all! As always, i want to begin 2021 by thanking all of you around the world who have followed and supported 5:4 during the last year, most especially and above all to my growing number of esteemed and beloved Patrons. i don’t think…

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of 2020 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 December 31, 2020 • 00:00
    December 31, 2020 • 00:00

    It’s something of a relief knowing that this year, finally, is poised to become a memory, consigned to history. But before it does, here’s the second part of my 40 Best Albums of 2020, each of which has wonderfully demonstrated that this year has had a lot more going for…

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of 2020 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 30, 2020 • 00:00
    December 30, 2020 • 00:00

    i’m sure i’m not alone in being somewhat impatient to see the back of 2020. It’s been a horribly testing and demoralising year, and of course there’ll be some way to go into 2021 (and likely beyond) before life starts to settle into whatever version of ‘normal’ eventually prevails. But…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    SWR Vokalensemble – Baltikum

    by 5:4 December 22, 2020 • 11:32
    December 22, 2020 • 11:32

    For the last six years, the SWR Vokalensemble and conductor Marcus Creed have been on a systematic journey through choral music from all points of the globe. It’s a journey i wasn’t aware of until earlier this year, when a large box set unexpectedly arrived at my door, ambitiously titled…

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  • CD/Digital releasesMovies

    Adam Janota Bzowski – Saint Maud (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

    by 5:4 December 18, 2020 • 05:00
    December 18, 2020 • 05:00

    NB. While this article does not contain any specific plot spoilers, it does discuss various aspects of Saint Maud; anyone yet to see the film may wish to postpone reading further until afterwards. For a long time i’ve been itching to write a large-scale text about the relationship between avant-garde…

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  • Best of the Year

    Best Albums of the Year, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Making Lists

    by 5:4 December 16, 2020 • 10:50
    December 16, 2020 • 10:50

    [This article is adapted and expanded from a patron-only post published to my Patreon supporters late last year.] In two weeks’ time i’ll be starting my annual two-day pilgrimage through the forty Best Albums of the Year. Each year these articles tend to garner more attention (and certainly a greater…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Tõnu Kõrvits – You Are Light and Morning

    by 5:4 December 14, 2020 • 11:28
    December 14, 2020 • 11:28

    As in most countries, Estonian contemporary music has its share of conservatives (more) and radicals (fewer), but one composer in particular tends to flit between the two. At first listen, many would probably place Tõnu Kõrvits‘ music firmly in the conservative camp. He is, without a doubt, the country’s most…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Andrew Liles – Entries of Confusion

    by 5:4 December 9, 2020 • 11:07
    December 9, 2020 • 11:07

    i’m no lover of vinyl. Quite the opposite, yet some of the best musical creations i’ve ever heard all stem in some respect from its archaic world of spin and surface noise, pop and crackle. A full decade ago i was marvelling at Cosey Fanny Tutti and Philippe Petit’s miniature…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Deborah Walker – Starflux

    by 5:4 December 5, 2020 • 10:16
    December 5, 2020 • 10:16

    It was earlier this year that i first encountered the label Elli Records, self-described as “an independent label focused on music made by humans, for humans, with computers”. Nothing particularly unusual about that, but while i’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of their five years’ worth of releases,…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    The Bug ft. Dis Fig – In Blue

    by 5:4 December 2, 2020 • 12:52
    December 2, 2020 • 12:52

    In order to write about In Blue, the new collaborative album from The Bug and Dis Fig, i need to break a couple of personal ground rules. #1: Don’t do nostalgia. #2: Don’t write about yourself. The reason i need to break those rules is because of the way In…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Chris Watson – Notes from the Forest Floor / Georgia Rodgers – Line of Parts

    by 5:4 November 27, 2020 • 14:25
    November 27, 2020 • 14:25

    Considering it was released back in July it’s taken me far too long to get round to spending time with a split album featuring two field recording-based works by Chris Watson and Georgia Rodgers. Both works have their origins in installation pieces. Watson’s Notes from the Forest Floor began life five…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Joeri Chipsvingers – De Avonturen van Joeri Chipsvingers

    by 5:4 November 25, 2020 • 15:04
    November 25, 2020 • 15:04

    One of the shorter albums i’ve heard this year, but nonetheless one of the more arresting, is by the improbably named Joeri Chipsvingers (nom de guerre for Belgian composer Michiel de Naegel). Titled De Avonturen van Joeri Chipsvingers, it comes across as a sort of unhinged electroacoustic chamber farrago in…

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