Articles by Kevin Press
Various
Pop Ambient 2019
PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2018
Kompakt's Pop Ambient series returns with its 19th iteration of a compilation they've delivered every year since 2001. The 13-track package...
Emanuele Errante
The Evanescence of a Thousand Colors
PUBLISHED Nov 23, 2018
There is a level of sophistication in Emanuele Errante's work that rewards attentive listeners with optimism. The Italian composer gives us...
Sofheso
Archive: Collected Recordings 2014-2017
PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2018
It won't be long before we're all the subject of a neatly packaged retrospective. Given the amount of digital content we produce over the c...
Ingrid Laubrock
Contemporary Chaos Practices
PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2018
Known primarily as a jazz saxophonist, Ingrid Laubrock has delivered a pair of new classical works on a sparkling new disc called Contempor...
Oberman Knocks
Trilate Shift
PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2018
Nigel Truswell has a new double-LP release for aperture records, his first for the label since 2014. Trilate Shift is an austere, at times...
Ian William Craig
Thresholder
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2018
Vancouver's Ian William Craig has produced the ambient album of the year. Thresholder is his first release in 18 months, but its story stre...
Charles Mingus
Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2018
Credit DJ Amir Abdullah with unearthing what for most of us would be the discovery of a lifetime: Five two-track master tapes featuring the...
Yoshinori Hayashi
Ambivalence
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2018
There is a natural connection between electronic music produced for dance floors and for concert halls. Because the former is so beat-centr...