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    Hakushi Hasegawa – iPhone 6 Plus

    by 5:4 January 26, 2025 • 08:38
    January 26, 2025 • 08:38

    While it didn’t end up in my Best Albums of 2024, one of the releases that almost made it into the list was Mahōgakkō by Japanese musician Hakushi Hasegawa [長谷川白紙]. It’s an insanely, gleefully over-the-top cavalcade of pure pop extroversion, exhausting yet irresistible, mind-melting in its complete stylistic and artistic …

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    Subsea – Untitled V

    by 5:4 January 22, 2025 • 06:00
    January 22, 2025 • 06:00

    The assorted members of Australian experimental group Ektoise are involved in a plethora of other musical outlets, one of which is Subsea, the solo project of Jim Grundy. Untitled V is an album released in 2017, and while the title suggests otherwise, doesn’t appear to be the fifth in a …

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    Man Without Country – Daytrotter Session – Aug 5, 2013

    by 5:4 January 18, 2025 • 07:43
    January 18, 2025 • 07:43

    One of the most exciting – and, typically, underappreciated – pop acts of the 2010s was Man Without Country, the welsh duo of Tomas Greenhalf and Ryan James. Beginning in 2011, they released a series of truly outstanding singles – including King Complex, Inflammable Heart, Puppets, Migrating Clay Pigeon, Closet …

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    Lauren Redhead & Alistair Zaldua – San Servolo Registri Festival Concert

    by 5:4 January 14, 2025 • 09:32
    January 14, 2025 • 09:32

    An interesting album that came out quite late last year is San Servolo Registri Festival Concert, featuring assorted organ-based electroacoustic works performed by Lauren Redhead and Alistair Zaldua. It’s a curious mixture of music, yet while the pieces demonstrate a certain amount of diversity, several of them share aspects in …

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    Þóranna Björnsdóttir – Þyrpingar

    by 5:4 January 10, 2025 • 08:55
    January 10, 2025 • 08:55

    The most immersive Icelandic music i’ve encountered is by Þóranna Björnsdóttir, whose collaborative work LUCID blew my mind a few years back (becoming by Best Album of 2019), and who has consistently captivated me on the various occasions i’ve heard her performing live. Released in 2022, Þyrpingar [convergences – the …

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    Laura Sheeran – Music for the Deep Woods

    by 5:4 January 6, 2025 • 11:10
    January 6, 2025 • 11:10

    It’s January, when we take time to recover from the repercussions of our festive financial shenanigans, and i once again turn my attention to some of the best music available that doesn’t require – but no doubt deserves, if you can – any kind of payment. i originally cottoned on …

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    Mads Emil Dreyer – Disappearer

    by 5:4 November 7, 2024 • 12:13
    November 7, 2024 • 12:13

    i want to flag up a recent release by Danish composer Mads Emil Dreyer, featuring two works i previously encountered at the Dark Music Days festival in Iceland. More specifically, two works and two sibling works, as the four pieces included on his new album Disappearer comprise a pair each …

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    Tarmo Johannes – Tumesoe

    by 5:4 October 18, 2024 • 10:18
    October 18, 2024 • 10:18

    During the considerable time i’ve spent in Estonia throughout the last decade, one of the musicians who has consistently impressed me the most is Tarmo Johannes. His talents are multi-faceted: primarily a flautist, he’s also a long-term member of Ensemble U: and the Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society, …

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    Rolf Wallin – Five Seasons / Whirld / Stride / Spirit

    by 5:4 October 14, 2024 • 09:53
    October 14, 2024 • 09:53

    i recently had cause to remark on the pro / con nature of portrait discs, and here we are again, with a new album of music by Norwegian composer Rolf Wallin. i’ve often been impressed by Wallin’s work, never more so than in his large scale collaborative work The Otheroom, …

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    John Oswald – plexure ’24; plexures (Part 2)

    by 5:4 October 8, 2024 • 09:50
    October 8, 2024 • 09:50

    i stressed before the primacy of Plexure within the context of these two new albums. Yet the extent to which Oswald has been irresisitably drawn back to this work suggests that the idea of a ‘definitive’ version is meaningless. Indeed, the extensiveness of the so-called “bonus tracks” (most of which …

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    John Oswald – Plexure update

    by 5:4 October 5, 2024 • 10:26
    October 5, 2024 • 10:26

    Part 2 of my deep dive into John Oswald‘s extensive reissue of all things Plexure is coming soon. However, in the meantime there’s a time-critical update relevant for any other plex-heads out there. For this weekend only, Oswald has made available two additional Plexure-related items.

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    John Oswald – plexure ’24; plexures (Part 1)

    by 5:4 October 3, 2024 • 10:06
    October 3, 2024 • 10:06

    It seems as if an age has passed since i last wrote about the music of Canadian composer John Oswald. It was actually only four years ago, but a pandemic has come and gone during that time, which perhaps makes it seem longer. At that time, Oswald was beginning to …

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    Lee Fraser – Scii Tenaph / Ghost Semantics

    by 5:4 September 12, 2024 • 09:50
    September 12, 2024 • 09:50

    Honestly, it’s like that old joke about waiting for buses. You wait years for a new release from Lee Fraser, and then two come along at once. Hot on the heels of Live at Parken, Vienna, 05.08.23, released in March, comes a new album, Scii Tenaph, not so much accompanied …

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    Christopher McFall – I Throw The Switch On The Midnight Snake

    by 5:4 September 6, 2024 • 06:00
    September 6, 2024 • 06:00

    It was with no small excitement that i heard a few weeks ago that US sound artist Christopher McFall was bringing out a new album. Not only is McFall one of the most captivating artists working with field recordings that i’ve ever encountered, but it’s also been no fewer than …

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    Bára Gísladóttir – Orchestral Works; Growl Power

    by 5:4 September 3, 2024 • 15:52
    September 3, 2024 • 15:52

    Portrait albums can be a double-edged sword. They’re obviously a great opportunity to present a showcase of someone’s work. Hardly surprising, then, that for many composers, securing that first album devoted to their music is regarded as an important, even vital step on the path toward something that might approximate …

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    Amy Brandon – Lysis

    by 5:4 August 23, 2024 • 10:04
    August 23, 2024 • 10:04

    Lysis is the name of Canadian composer Amy Brandon‘s latest album, featuring eight works for various chamber, ensemble and electroacoustic groupings. The word ‘lysis’ is a word with several meanings, mostly biological, primarily referring to the breakdown of cells. There’s something very apt in that choice of word for Brandon’s …

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    Age Veeroos – Outlines of the Night

    by 5:4 August 20, 2024 • 10:48
    August 20, 2024 • 10:48

    Waiting for me on my doormat when i returned from Vienna a few days ago was a new CD of music by the Estonian composer Age Veeroos. i’ve been doubly excited waiting for it to arrive, partly because i was honoured to be asked to write the liner notes for …

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    Tróndur Bogason & Aldubáran – The Distance Between Us

    by 5:4 August 8, 2024 • 10:10
    August 8, 2024 • 10:10

    Another of my exciting recent Faroese discoveries, while preparing for the recent World New Music Days, is The Distance Between Us, a collaboration between composer Tróndur Bogason and the Faroes’ principal new music ensemble, Aldubáran (who were prominent during WNMD). In many respects the album’s title, and accompanying artwork, tell …

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    Klingra – …eftir

    by 5:4 August 2, 2024 • 13:04
    August 2, 2024 • 13:04

    As part of my preparation for festivals, i invariably spend time beforehand with music that’s directly related either to where i’m going and / or to what i’ll be hearing. In the case of the recent World New Music Days, this involved revisiting a lot of music i encountered during …

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    viibra – viibra

    by 5:4 June 19, 2024 • 06:00
    June 19, 2024 • 06:00

    Anyone familiar with Björk’s album Utopia – my Best Album of 2017 – will be aware of the ensemble of flutes that features prominently in most of its tracks. Seven of those flautists, Áshildur Haraldsdóttir, Berglind María Tómasdóttir, Björg Brjánsdóttir, Dagný Marinósdóttir, Sólveig Magnúsdóttir, Steinunn Vala Pálsdóttir and Þuríður Jónsdóttir, …

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