Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich – Works for 2 Pianists Under Soviet Rule (hat(now)art)
Sergei Prokofiev had the unfortunate timing as to die on the same day as Stalin,…
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Schuster – Breaking Down Into His Own Oblivion (Adeptsound)
There’s an incredible softness to the drones of Perth-based Schuster, as though made from wispy…
Various Artists – Three Locations (Recorded Fields)
For Three Locations five sound artists submitted three field recordings, and were in turn provided…
Nest – Retold (Serein)
Norwegian duo Deaf Center (Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland) are responsible for some of the…
Akira Kosemura – Polaroid Piano (Someone Good/Vitamin)
Polaroid photographs embody the hauntological; cloaking captured memories in a similar kind of glowing haze…
Nörz – (Also Known As) Acker Velvet (Schraum)
Nörz produce teeny, precise gestures of indeterminate electroacoustic origin arranged into shifty, haphazard pieces with…
Bartok – 44 Duos for 2 Violins (Harmonia Mundi)
Bartok’s major contribution to classical music is generally considered to be his faithful examination/transcription of…
Fourm/Shinkei/Luigi Terra – Luigi Terra (Dragon’s Eye)
The ever-subdued folk at Dragon’s Eye go one lower with the typically sober-titled Clean Forms,…
Messiaen – Harawi (Naxos)
Budget classical stalwarts Naxos continue their commendable survey of the music of Olivier Messiaen with…
Ligeti – String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 / Andante and Allegretto (Naxos)
György Ligeti remains most well known for the shimmering textural density of pieces like Atmospheres…
Cory Allen – Hearing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Hears (Quiet Design)
The processes at work in Cory Allen’s Hearing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing…
Various Artists – Disco Diva Delights Volume 1 (Ambassador’s Reception/Inertia)
A recent issue of The Wire featured a fabulous photo of prime disco hedonism in…
Philippe Schartz – Trumpet Renaissance (Chandos)
There’s something lovingly archaic about the trumpet that lends an air of historic disorientation to…
Olivier Messiaen – Poems Pour Mi (Naxos)
Like his religious works, Messiaen’s declaration of love to his first wife, violinist Claire Delbos,…
Various Artists – New Weird Australia, Volume 2 (New Weird Australia)
New Weird Australia is a non-profit collective of sorts, whose major statement are these free…