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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

    Free internet music: Kreng

    by 5:4 January 15, 2018 • 14:20
    January 15, 2018 • 14:20

    While we’re still caught up in winter, and before the days get too much lighter, it’s one of the best times of the year to get stuck into the music of Belgian composer Pepijn Caudron, better known as Kreng. He came to my attention around six years ago, when Works…

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    Free internet music: Martin Stig Andersen – Rabbit at the Airport

    by 5:4 January 11, 2018 • 14:21
    January 11, 2018 • 14:21

    Next up in my series looking at free internet music is a triptych by Danish composer Martin Stig Andersen. To many, Andersen is likely best known for his award-winning music and sound design work on Limbo, one of the most breathtakingly stunning – and, often, terrifying – video games of recent…

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    Free internet music: Altus

    by 5:4 January 8, 2018 • 11:56
    January 8, 2018 • 11:56

    i’m going to start 2018 exploring an area that seems particularly appropriate and indeed desirable in January, in the wake of the financial blow-outs many of us will have made in the run-up and perhaps also aftermath of Christmas: free internet music. This sort of thing used to be primarily…

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    Ensemble Musikfabrik – Stille, Label Musikfabrik

    by 5:4 December 18, 2017 • 14:59
    December 18, 2017 • 14:59

    Let’s talk about Ensemble Musikfabrik. First off, the German ensemble is responsible for some of the most memorable and fascinating concerts i’ve ever attended. Their performances during the 2016 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival remain personal favourites, both the opening weekend concert – including among other things, Georg Friedrich Haas’ I can’t breathe…

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  • Advent & ChristmasCD/Digital releasesSeasonal

    Kantos Chamber Choir – The Silver Stars at Play

    by 5:4 December 13, 2017 • 11:43
    December 13, 2017 • 11:43

    ‘Tis the season and all that, and while the majority of festive new releases are concerned with reheating the usual fare, there’s one new Christmas disc that i particularly want to single out. Called The Silver Stars at Play, it’s a collection of 23 contemporary Christmas carol settings, performed by…

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    HCMF revisited: Aaron Cassidy – The wreck of former boundaries/Liza Lim – How Forests Think

    by 5:4 November 17, 2017 • 06:00
    November 17, 2017 • 06:00

    Later today i’ll be jumping in the car to begin my annual pilgrimage to the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, and it seems appropriate to conclude this week’s revisiting of previous years with mention of a recent CD featuring two larger-scale works that both received their first UK performances at last…

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    Anthony Pateras and Erkki Veltheim – The Slow Creep of Convenience

    by 5:4 November 7, 2017 • 08:07
    November 7, 2017 • 08:07

    If you were to take Jakob Ullmann’s solo III for organ, Stefan Fraunberger’s Quellgeister series and Monty Adkins’ recent Shadows and Reflections and use them as the basis for a new composition, the result would probably closely resemble one of the most (if not the most) stunning releases i’ve heard so…

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    Monty Adkins – Shadows and Reflections

    by 5:4 November 4, 2017 • 13:31
    November 4, 2017 • 13:31

    An interesting aspect of what i’ve been calling ‘steady statism‘ is the relationship it has with the idea of stasis. What is a musical stasis? Considering that music unfolds in time, isn’t it an oxymoronic idea? Furthermore, is such a hypothetical stasis intentional (objective) or perceptional (subjective) – or both?…

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    Haunted but undaunted, fading yet indefatigable: The Caretaker – Everywhere at the end of time – Stages 2 & 3

    by 5:4 October 31, 2017 • 12:49
    October 31, 2017 • 12:49

    Appropriately enough, considering this evening is Hallowe’en, i began today being haunted by ghosts. To explain: in the early hours, not sufficiently drowsy to return to sleep yet too somnolent even to begin contemplating getting out of bed, i grabbed my headphones and groped blearily on my device for something…

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    Jasun Martz – A Retrospective: Non-Finito, Alchemy, Corrosion, Chroma, The Pillory, The Battle

    by 5:4 October 26, 2017 • 10:21
    October 26, 2017 • 10:21

    Another unusual release i’ve received recently came from Jasun Martz, a US musician and artist of whom i was previously unaware, but a quick search online reveals has apparently been involved in music for almost 50 years, with a variety of both classical and pop/rock connections. What i received consisted of six…

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    Jeroen Diepenmaat – Double Landscape

    by 5:4 October 21, 2017 • 13:29
    October 21, 2017 • 13:29

    One of the more unusual items to have arrived at my door recently is Double Landscape, by Dutch “visual artist with a preference for sound” Jeroen Diepenmaat. It’s unusual insofar as it comes in the form of a small plastic wallet containing a small business card CDr – which contains just…

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    Singular, ingenious, historic: Roland Kayn – A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound

    by 5:4 October 18, 2017 • 17:42
    October 18, 2017 • 17:42

    From a certain perspective our galaxy, the Milky Way, could be described as being ‘little’. However, with a diameter of up to 180,000 light years across, comprising as many as 400 billion stars, that perspective would be a decidedly rarefied one, viewing things, both figuratively and literally, on an astronomical…

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree internet music

    Altered (steady) states: Kenneth Kirschner – September 27, 2016/November 17, 2016, Markus Reuter – Falling for Ascension, Formuls – entryiseasierthantheexit_exit

    by 5:4 October 3, 2017 • 13:57
    October 3, 2017 • 13:57

    A few years ago, when writing an extensive monograph on the music of Kenneth Kirschner, i used the term ‘steady state’ to indicate the particular way in many of his works that material is deployed and juxtaposed over extended periods of time. This latter aspect, extended time, is vital: both…

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    New releases: Paul Dolden – Histoire d’histoire, Annette Vande Gorne – Yawar Fiesta

    by 5:4 September 25, 2017 • 15:10
    September 25, 2017 • 15:10

    Nobody – but nobody – makes music that sounds like Paul Dolden. His work typically exhibits unchecked exuberance, both his instrumental and electronic (and electroacoustic) music not merely firing on all cylinders, but with their inner workings ludicrously pimped and their processors absurdly overclocked, sounds and timbres piled on top…

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    Fovea Hex – The Salt Garden II

    by 5:4 August 29, 2017 • 17:43
    August 29, 2017 • 17:43

    It’s high time i flagged up one of the standout new releases i’ve been spending time with over the summer. Whenever Irish experimental electronic folk group Fovea Hex put out something new, it’s not just a cause to rejoice but a guarantee of something unique and indescribably wonderful. They’ve been around…

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    New releases: Miguel Angel Tolosa, Giulio Aldinucci & Francis M. Gri

    by 5:4 August 2, 2017 • 13:47
    August 2, 2017 • 13:47

    Ephimeral is a recent release of electronic music by Spanish composer and sound artist Miguel Angel Tolosa. Tolosa first got my attention in 2015 with Loner, his superb collaboration with Ingar Zach (which ended up on my Best Albums of 2015) and this disc has got me just as excited. That title,…

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    New releases: John Wall & Mark Durgan, John Edwards/Mark Sanders/John Wall

    by 5:4 July 29, 2017 • 12:30
    July 29, 2017 • 12:30

    Regular readers of 5:4 will know how fascinated i am by the music of John Wall, and the last couple of months have seen two new releases featuring Wall alongside some his most long-standing collaborators. In collusion with Mark Durgan is Contrapt, a 39-minute sequence of pieces culled from free improvisations…

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  • CD/Digital releasesThematic series

    Estonia in Focus weekend: New Estonian Choral Music, Tõnu Kõrvits – Moorland Elegies, Galina Grigorjeva – Nature Morte

    by 5:4 June 26, 2017 • 15:27
    June 26, 2017 • 15:27

    To bring this first Estonia in Focus weekend to a close, some excellent CDs of Estonian contemporary choral music have been released in the last few months. Together they admirably demonstrate the considerable range and richness of compositional thought typical of the country’s new music scene. For a broad but in-depth…

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    New (Nordic) releases: Vilde&Inga, Nordic Affect, Trio Aristos, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

    by 5:4 June 5, 2017 • 13:16
    June 5, 2017 • 13:16

    There’s been a number of very interesting new releases recently featuring composers and performers from the Nordic countries. At the most unconventional end of the spectrum are violinist Vilde Sandve Alnæs and double bassist Inga Margrete Aas, a Norwegian duo who perform free-improvised music together as Vilde&Inga. Their new album Silfr, released…

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    Another Timbre: Canadian Composers Series (Part 1)

    by 5:4 April 28, 2017 • 15:24
    April 28, 2017 • 15:24

    Among the most interesting releases to have come out in the opening months of this year are the first five discs in Another Timbre‘s Canadian Composers Series. It’s an ambitious project that seeks to provide an overview of, if not the entirety of contemporary Canadian compositional thought (which is hugely diverse), then…

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