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Erik Hall

Solo Three

Minimalist music by Laurie Spiegel, Glenn Branca, Steve Reich and Charlemagne Palestine reconfigured as nimble-fingered solo works
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Charmaine Lee

Tulpa

With a contact mic taped to her throat, the Australian vocalist expands the very concept of vocal music
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Mark Fell

Psychic Resynthesis

Tones drift apart, come together, converse and collide, on Mark Fell's collaboration with Explore Ensemble
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Galya Bisengalieva

Polygon Reflections

Remixes by The Bug, KMRU, Lucy Liyou and others transform the Kazakh violinist's 2024 album of relections on the Soviet Semipalatinsk Test Site
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Darragh Morgan

For Violin and Electronics II

The Irish performer’s follow-up to 2017’s For Violin and Electronics showcases the breadth of possibilities for combining strings and wires, via works by Mira Calix, Donnacha Dennehy, Shiva Feshareki and others
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Hampus Lindwall

Brace for Impact

An album of contemporary composition for the organ, drawing influence from everything from Xenakis to metal to rave
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Briana Marela

My Inner Rest

Straight out of Mills College, this eerie song cycle nods to the bubbling electronics of Laurie Spiegel
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Raven Chacon

Voiceless Mass

The Milwaukee-based group Present Music draw out the composer’s poetry of sound, space and silence
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Halvcirkel & Anders Lauge Meldgaard

Spirit

In this new collaboration between the Danish composer and string trio, Vanessa Ague hears a deep wellspring of joy bubbling beneath the richly textured surface
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Fabio Mina

Existence / Resistance

The flute seems to be having a moment right now, but Italian-born Mina is pushing the instrument further than most
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Alexander Schubert x NEKO3

Angel Death Traps

An album of static grain and abrasive chaos at the fraying interface of music and technology
Album of the Week

Mmmm: Jamie Hamilton & Phaedra Ensemble present Versionland

A new composition performed by London’s Phaedra Ensemble is inspired by a curious sonic phenomenon known as The Hum. Vanessa Ague investigates
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Elaine Mitchener on Curating This Year’s Deep Time Festival

Elaine Mitchener speaks to Vanessa Ague about the influence of John Cage and Jean-Michel Basquiat on her curation for this year’s Deep Time Festival, her forthcoming world premiere there, and a wider lineup including Aidan O’Rourke, NikNak, Apartment House and more
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Leo Chadburn

The Primordial Pieces

An album of five blissful, quiet pieces that never stay still, for four violins and a piano
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Devin Maxwell

Timebending

Between coarse strings and nervous flutes, the Utah-based composer may be screwing with the whole space-time continuum
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Elori Saxl

Drifts and Surfaces

Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion, Tigue and the Guggenheim Museum, a suite of long electro-acoustic meditations explore the fragmented nature of time
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Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker

WEBO

A legendary live set from the summer of ‘91 is full of joy and fire, finds Vanessa Ague
Album of the Week

Dig Deep – And See Where It Leads: What Is Not Strange by Tashi Wada

Working with Julia Holter, Corey Fogel, Ezra Buchla, Devin Hoff and a tuning system pinched off Jean-Philippe Rameau, LA-based composer Tashi Wada pushes song form into wild new directions
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NikNak

Ireti

With cyberpunk themes and staticky beats, the turntable experimenter waxes ever more melodic with a cast of collaborators including Grifton Forbes-Amos, Cassie Kinoshi, Agaama, Chisara Agor and SlowPitchSound
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Elaine Mitchener

Solo Throat

London's multi-talented, serial collaborator (George Lewis, Apartment House, Moor Mother, David Toop, Jason Yarde) finds physical, bodily meaning deep within the words of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard
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Jlin

Akoma

Collaborating with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet, the pioneering polymath from Gary, Indian, redefines ideas of genre and expands everyone’s musical horizons in the process
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Soosan Lolavar

Girl

Teaming up with chamber group Ruthless Jabiru and conductor Kelly Lovelady, the British-Iranian composer’s scores for strings and santoor view themes of social justice through a musical lens
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Erika Angell

The Obsession With Her Voice

The first solo album from the member of The Moth and Thus Owls offers up a kaleidoscope of vocal sounds, finds Vanessa Ague
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Telo Hoy

Rubber Wing

An album of compositions for vibraphone and electronics which lets process take centre-stage

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Quatuor Bozzini

Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4

Collaborating with Canada's Bozzini Quartet again, Swiss composer Jürg Frey proves the slightest movements can have the most impact
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Yas Clarke

The Thicket

Bristolian composer turns words into putty in a suite of hocketing tracks for four voices
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Sampler1

Various Artists

An album of music by visual artists, from Rosa Barba to Cory Arcangel
A Quietus Interview

Unacceptable Ideas: An Interview With Bill Orcutt

Ahead of his performance at Le Guess Who? next month, Vanessa Ague speaks to Bill Orcutt, who charts the series of serendipities and chance encounters that led to one of the most boundary-pushing and varied careers in experimental guitar playing

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Matana Roberts

Coin Coin Chapter Five: In The Garden…

The uncertainty at the heart of this five chapter in the Chicago experimantalist's ongoing project doesn't take anything from the distinctiveness of its author's compositional voice, finds Vanessa Ague
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Natalia Beylis

Mermaids

An old photograph and a vintage keyboard open a portal to a watery soundworld for the Irish electronic producer
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Ki Oni

A Leisurely Swim To Everlasting Life

LA’s Chuck Soo-Hoo makes environmental music with a sense of wonder, finds Vanessa Ague
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Kristen Roos

Universal Synthesizer Interface Volume II

The Canadian artist weaves fresh new sounds from old MIDI programs, finds Vanessa Ague
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