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CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

Free internet music: Christina Vantzou – Nº2 Remixes

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

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Free internet music: Brothomstates – ReKobn-Tich-Ey

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CD/Digital releasesFree internet musicThematic series

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

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Free internet music: Nhung Nguyen – Oblivion

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Free internet music: Andrew Leslie Hooker

by 5:4 January 6, 2021 • 12:11 0 comment
Best of the YearMixtapes

Mixtape #59 : Best Albums of 2020

by 5:4 January 1, 2021 • 07:45 0 comment

Best Albums of 2020 (Part 2)

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Best Albums of 2020 (Part 1)

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CD/Digital releases

SWR Vokalensemble – Baltikum

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

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

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Best Albums of the Year, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : M

    by 5:4 June 29, 2020 • 10:00
    June 29, 2020 • 10:00

    It’s week 13 in my series of Isolation Mixtapes, which means we’re now halfway through the alphabet. When i began this series it seemed possible that the prospect of 26 mixtapes, unfolding weekly over the course of six months, might well be in keeping with the length of time of…

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  • Announcements

    Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices

    by 5:4 June 24, 2020 • 05:00
    June 24, 2020 • 05:00

    i want to give a big shout-out and a heads-up for a new book that’s just been published, which includes a chapter by me. Sound and Image: Aesthetics and Practices had its inception at the Sound/Image conference at the University of Greenwich in late 2018. Edited by Andrew Knight-Hill, the…

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  • Outside-In

    Outside-In: Luís Salgueiro

    by 5:4 June 23, 2020 • 12:54
    June 23, 2020 • 12:54

    This week’s addition to the Outside-In field recording project comes from Portuguese composer Luís Salgueiro. Here’s his introduction to the recording: In February, I found myself working a week in Stuttgart. This came on the tail end of an intense period of work and travel — and it was, in…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : L

    by 5:4 June 22, 2020 • 09:59
    June 22, 2020 • 09:59

    The twelfth in my weekly series of Isolation Mixtapes focuses on composers, artists and groups beginning with the letter L. Once again, there are two of the most interesting tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, featured in chronological order. Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with approximate…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Naomi Pinnock – Lines and Spaces

    by 5:4 June 19, 2020 • 13:08
    June 19, 2020 • 13:08

    It’s fitting that the first portrait disc devoted to the music of UK composer Naomi Pinnock should be titled Lines and Spaces. Not merely because one of the four works featured on the disc has that as its title, but due to the fact that every time i’ve listened to…

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  • Outside-In

    Outside-In: Monty Adkins

    by 5:4 June 16, 2020 • 13:13
    June 16, 2020 • 13:13

    Today’s addition to the Outside-In field recording compilation comes from Huddersfield-based composer Monty Adkins. Here’s Monty’s introduction The recording was made in February 2019 during a residency in Reims. The short soundscape charts the route from my apartment to the studio space in which I was working. Proceeding from the…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : K

    by 5:4 June 15, 2020 • 08:34
    June 15, 2020 • 08:34

    In this week’s Isolation Mixtape, exploring the best music from the last decade, all of the music is by groups, composers and artists beginning with the letter K. As always, two of the most splendiferous tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, presented in chronological order. Here’s the…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Zeynep Gedizlioğlu – Verbinden und Abwenden

    by 5:4 June 10, 2020 • 11:09
    June 10, 2020 • 11:09

    Composer portrait albums tend to go one of two ways, highlighting either the broad diversity of their output or the more single-minded consistency of a central idea permeating multiple works. In the case of Verbinden und Abwenden, a new disc exploring the music of Turkish composer Zeynep Gedizlioğlu, it’s most…

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  • Outside-In

    Outside-In: Ed Nixon

    by 5:4 June 9, 2020 • 11:52
    June 9, 2020 • 11:52

    Today’s contribution to the Outside-In compilation comes from Ed Nixon in Canada. His recording takes its starting point from the recent killing of George Floyd – specifically the now notorious length of time it took for that atrocity to happen. Ed writes: I suppose I wanted to know what eight…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : J

    by 5:4 June 8, 2020 • 10:21
    June 8, 2020 • 10:21

    This week’s Isolation Mixtape explores music by artists, composers and groups starting with the letter J. Once again there are two of the most interesting tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, featured in chronological order. Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with approximate timings and links to…

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  • Announcements

    Triptych, May/July 2009 – free today

    by 5:4 June 5, 2020 • 00:00
    June 5, 2020 • 00:00

    A few days ago marked the 25th anniversary of my father’s death. It seems like such an impossibly long time ago, yet his all-too-brief presence in my life, and all-too-long absence from it, continue to resonate in me and make their mark in my life and in my music. Back…

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  • Outside-In

    Outside-In: Davíð Brynjar Franzson

    by 5:4 June 2, 2020 • 11:08
    June 2, 2020 • 11:08

    The latest field recording in my Outside-In project comes from Icelandic composer Davíð Brynjar Franzson. His recording was made a few days ago in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, and in contrast to the previous recordings i’ve featured, it’s something rather different, primarily because i think it’s fair…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    V/Vm (Leyland Kirby) – The Death of Rave, now available

    by 5:4 June 1, 2020 • 13:55
    June 1, 2020 • 13:55

    Nine years ago, in a series of articles about ‘Contemporary Epics’, i wrote about The Death of Rave, Leyland Kirby‘s gargantuan paean to the world of rave culture. Originally released in 2006 as a free MP3 download in 20 instalments (under Kirby’s occasional nom de guerre V/Vm), it vanished from…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : I

    by 5:4 June 1, 2020 • 09:18
    June 1, 2020 • 09:18

    Week number nine in my ongoing series of Isolation Mixtapes is focused on artists, groups and composers beginning with the letter I. Two of the best tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, explored in chronological order. Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with approximate timings and links…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Cyrillus Kreek – The Suspended Harp of Babel

    by 5:4 May 29, 2020 • 11:14
    May 29, 2020 • 11:14

    i’ve been waiting for this for three years. At the 2017 Estonian Music Days, i experienced a double onslaught to the head and heart courtesy of choir Vox Clamantis performing the music of Cyrillus Kreek. For this reason more than any other, i’ve clung to the memories of that first…

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  • Outside-In

    Outside-In: Chris Legg

    by 5:4 May 26, 2020 • 09:49
    May 26, 2020 • 09:49

    The latest recording in the Outside-In project comes from long-term 5:4 friend and patron Chris Legg. His field recording was made in woodland not far from Halifax in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Chris says of the recording: It was recorded during lockdown (but the sounds are not lockdown-specific!), using…

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  • Mixtapes

    The Isolation Mixtapes : H

    by 5:4 May 25, 2020 • 12:47
    May 25, 2020 • 12:47

    This week’s Isolation Mixtape exploring some of the best music from the last decade focuses on composers, artists and groups beginning with the letter H. Two tracks from of the year’s 2010 to 2019, once again explored in chronological order. All the previous mixtapes can be found on the Mixtapes…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Páll Ragnar Pálsson – Atonement

    by 5:4 May 22, 2020 • 13:10
    May 22, 2020 • 13:10

    One of the first works of contemporary music that i ever got to know was Dérive 1 by Pierre Boulez. i fell for the piece pretty hard, and one of the main reasons for that infatuation – which hasn’t really subsided in the decades since – was the way Boulez…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Tõnu Kõrvits – Hymns to the Northern Lights

    by 5:4 May 21, 2020 • 10:59
    May 21, 2020 • 10:59

    For those of you who prefer a little less avant in your garde, consider the latest portrait disc of music by Tõnu Kõrvits. Kõrvits occupies an interesting position within the Estonian contemporary scene. His music embodies a great deal of the conservatism that tends to typify new music from that…

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  • CD/Digital releases

    Olga Neuwirth – …miramondo multiplo…

    by 5:4 May 20, 2020 • 05:00
    May 20, 2020 • 05:00

    It’s always nice when music you’ve encountered in a previous context finds its way onto disc. That’s true of two of the three works on the latest CD of Olga Neuwirth‘s music, released by Kairos. i first heard Neuwirth’s viola concerto Remnants of Songs … an Amphigory during the 2012…

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