other-music Archives – Page 2 of 27

Clarice Jensen * Joana Gama & Lúis Fernandes * Pitch & Splitter Orchestra

By Peter van Cooten | May 7, 2018 - 19:57 |May 8, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

Post-classical music from Clarice Jensen (for cello and electronics) and Joana Gama & Luís Fernandes (for piano, electronics and orchestra).

The Pitch & Splitter Orchestra demonstrate how a ‘frozen orchestra’ might sound. →

Christina Vantzou * Gray Acres

By Peter van Cooten | May 4, 2018 - 20:37 |May 4, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Number 4 in the continuing series of Christina Vantzou‘s solo (or better: collaboration) albums, and more ‘beauty in stillness’ by Gray Acres (Andrew and Michael Tasselmeyer) →

Pjusk * Nadia Struiwigh * Sonae

By Peter van Cooten | April 19, 2018 - 19:57 |April 19, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Short three-track collaboration EP from Pjusk, and new albums by Nadia Struiwigh and Sonae exploring the uncharted terrain between abstract electronica and techno. →

Frank Bretschneider * Rapoon

By Peter van Cooten | April 12, 2018 - 21:08 |April 13, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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‘Funky’ electronic music from Frank Bretschneider (on ‘Lunik’), and impending airstrike doom as predicted by Robin ‘Rapoon’ Storey →

DreamScenes – April 2018

By Peter van Cooten | April 8, 2018 - 20:00 |April 29, 2018 ambient music, DreamScenes, other-music

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It’s cauld – it’s dark – through the dread waste
Yon starn, sae red, and sma,
Presses its weak, encumberd, beam,
To perish in the sna’.

Och! Och! it’s mirk – the furious storm,
Howls round the hill sae high;
And black, and awfu’, on the earth,
Sits down the laiden sky.
[Robert Couper, 1804] →

Capac * Strië

By Peter van Cooten | April 5, 2018 - 22:59 |April 6, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Capac celebrates the cold winter season with a fascinating collection (and an unprecedented combustible edition) * Strië tells about the perpetual journey of Laïka the Russian space dog. →

DreamScenes – March 2018

By Peter van Cooten | March 11, 2018 - 20:00 |March 11, 2018 ambient music, DreamScenes, other-music

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“How beautiful. How magic. How catastrophic”

DreamScenes for March 2018 →

Alapastel * Group Listening

By Peter van Cooten | March 5, 2018 - 10:09 |March 5, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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“If we are able to uncover the profound beauty of things, that seem to be hidden, it is possible to become more humble and appreciative of life around us.”

Alapastel expands the borders of ‘post-classical’ music, plus rearrangements of ambient music classics for clarinet and piano by Group Listening. →

Ian Hawgood/Danny Norbury * Aaron Martin

By Peter van Cooten | February 26, 2018 - 10:41 |February 26, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Cello music to enjoy the quietness and calm of hidden moments: by Danny Norbury & Ian Hawgood and Aaron Martin →

Wordclock * Tomasz Sroczynski

By Peter van Cooten | February 22, 2018 - 20:00 |February 23, 2018 ambient music, other-music, RECOMMENDATIONS

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Post-classical music meets dark jazz on Wordclock’s ‘Heralds’ – and Tomasz Sroczynski’s full scale symphony created with only a violin and a sampler. →