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    HCMF 2025 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 December 8, 2025 • 09:39
    December 8, 2025 • 09:39

    Most festivals go out of their way these days to jam-pack their weekends with all the best stuff, and that was certainly case at this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. There was so much to enjoy during the opening weekend it felt as if it lasted longer than just a …

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    Chiyoko Szlavnics – Memory Spaces

    by 5:4 December 5, 2025 • 09:13
    December 5, 2025 • 09:13

    i didn’t realise how much i’d missed listening to Chiyoko Szlavnics‘ music until i pressed play on Memory Spaces, the latest album of her music. It’s been far too long, and while my interest in music exploring alternative tunings has waned considerably as it’s become slowly and stupidly reconfigured into …

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    Sacrum Profanum 2025 (Part 1)

    by 5:4 November 25, 2025 • 13:56
    November 25, 2025 • 13:56

    While the Sacrum Profanum festival’s name hints at its beginnings, mixing sacred and secular music of the 18th and 19th centuries, today’s iteration bears no resemblance. Notions of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ – absurdly outdated and meaningless concepts both – are absent, and the entirety of the festival programme focuses on …

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    Olev Muska – New Estonian Waltzes; Sander Saarmets – Bleu Précieux

    by 5:4 November 14, 2025 • 11:49
    November 14, 2025 • 11:49

    As an epilogue to my excursions in Estonia during the summer and autumn, i want to highlight two albums that are tangentially related to the events i attended. During the Tormis 95 extravaganza in August, i mentioned Olev Muska, an Australian-Estonian composer who among other things was presenting his new …

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    Warsaw Autumn 2025 (Part 2)

    by 5:4 October 13, 2025 • 11:54
    October 13, 2025 • 11:54

    Let’s talk about abstraction.

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    World New Music Days 2025, Portugal (Part 3)

    by 5:4 July 4, 2025 • 09:19
    July 4, 2025 • 09:19

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  • CD/Digital releasesLent Series

    Christopher McFall – Late Night Fate Directory

    by 5:4 April 19, 2025 • 17:29
    April 19, 2025 • 17:29

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    Christopher McFall – Disengaged Songs for Disenchanted Lovers

    by 5:4 April 14, 2025 • 10:26
    April 14, 2025 • 10:26

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    Christopher McFall – Epilog (Recombinant)

    by 5:4 April 10, 2025 • 10:06
    April 10, 2025 • 10:06

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    Natasha Barrett – Toxic Colour

    by 5:4 April 8, 2025 • 15:23
    April 8, 2025 • 15:23

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    Christopher McFall – An Eris 23

    by 5:4 April 4, 2025 • 08:12
    April 4, 2025 • 08:12

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    Christopher McFall – The Body As I Left It

    by 5:4 March 30, 2025 • 09:42
    March 30, 2025 • 09:42

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    Christopher McFall – This Heat Holds Snow

    by 5:4 March 25, 2025 • 10:32
    March 25, 2025 • 10:32

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    Christopher McFall – The City of Almost

    by 5:4 March 20, 2025 • 09:43
    March 20, 2025 • 09:43

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    Christopher McFall – Sensuality May Be Found At The Mouth Of A Snake

    by 5:4 March 15, 2025 • 09:57
    March 15, 2025 • 09:57

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    Christopher McFall – Four Feels for Fire

    by 5:4 March 10, 2025 • 09:58
    March 10, 2025 • 09:58

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    Christopher McFall – A Little Rouge

    by 5:4 March 5, 2025 • 08:48
    March 5, 2025 • 08:48

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    Kenneth Kirschner – April 27, 2023 and more

    by 5:4 February 3, 2025 • 09:22
    February 3, 2025 • 09:22

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  • CD/Digital releasesFree music

    Hakushi Hasegawa – iPhone 6 Plus

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

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    Þóranna Björnsdóttir – Þyrpingar

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

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