We've long moved on to another location. However, this site has gotten out of control, so I've cleaned it up a bit. A few upload requests have been honored for the last time, the design has been tweaked, and spam has been cut down (drastically).

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Given the impressive size of his back catalogue (measured both in depth and breadth), it is easy to approach a new Evan Parker album with trepidation.

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Here's another from docperkins (and I strongly recommend it):

Some people believe that a photograph captures the soul and fend-off a camera as if the essence of their being is about to be abducted at the imminence of a click.

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Rdeča Raketa is a Vienna-based duo comprised of Maja Osojnik and Matija Scdellander, whose 2010 collaborative cassette, “Old Girl, Old Boy,” combines their admirable and respective training in electronic and improvised music composition.

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A Moraine is a geological phenomena; the accumulation of unconsolidated debris, soil and rocks compacted under glacial drifts.

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If the universe operated in accordance with my own personal whims and motives, then KiC would phase out this whole avant-classical thing it's gotten itself entrenched in and start posting really great jazz records again.

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Things fade in and out a lot on Jesse Somfay's A Catch in the Voice.

The Canadian producer's latest album is split across two discs, with the first containing ambient compositions and the second being more minimal techno-based.

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Continuing with our series of "What's So Great About Modernity?" is this wonderful collection of Vinko Globokar compositions.

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When an ensemble dedicates itself to performing and recording the music of other composers it’s often tricky to balance the intentions of the composer with the musical identities of the performers.

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1) I'm just going to get this out of the way: You are not able to download this album here.

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I was going to ask the readers to skip what follows and download Green Report 12 immediately, since I think it can be most effective without any prior knowledge of Nakatani.

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In order to further complete (y)our Feldman collection here at KiC, here's a little something that might, at the very least, grab your attention.

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Ensemble Pittoresque formed in 1977 when "The Sex Pistols, Kraftwerk, Can, Faust, Fripp & Eno, Pere Ubu and a wide variety of mainstream artists pounded the world with their personal pinnacles of artistic brilliance." Many see Ensemble Pittoresque as

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What I offer to you, technically, is the soundtrack to the movie of the same title; however, "soundtrack" is a bit misleading.

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As much as you try to deny it, we as human are so impacted by the weather: we choose where we live based on it, we choose what we do based on it, and finally, we choose to what we listen.

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Here we have the most fully-realized work of music this decade (though very young) has yet to see. This master-stroke of an album was apparently in the works for over a year before the three brave intellectuals who produced it finally landed on a take they found perfect enough to release.

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Errata: As revealed in the comments section by none other than KiC reader Nate Wooley, no editing or post-production went into this recording; Wrong Shape to be a Story Teller was completed all in one sitting.

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Topology is a swath of mathematics that investigates the properties preserved under a continuous transformation.

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Xu Cheng's Wild Fox Chants was brought to my attention by Danny's wonderful, but dormant, blog 'By Chance Upon Waking.' A couple things made me excited: first, logistically, it was free for download.

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Composed in 1999 and premiered in 2000, L'Amour de Loin is Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's first opera. As a reinterpretation of Jaufré Rudel's La vida breve, Saariaho, along with librettist Amin Maalouf, tells a story of idealized love from afar.

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As sometimes happens, after I finished the upload I found out, while searching for the above links, that Mutant Sounds has already posted this record.

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We've interrupted this regularly scheduled broadcast for a re-blog from the fantastic and unjustly esoteric Twice Zonked!.

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This was limited to 66 copies, which the label page is showing are sold out. Given Aleph Naught has put out a couple free things online, I think it should be safe to pass this along.

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I'm making this entry to memorialize Sarah Lipstate's Noveller as the first entry of the new below section highlighting exceptional new releases.

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An album that I found for a couple reasons: both on the Adore the Freak list, and the atonelectric peripherals list Doc threw together, as well as general acclaim (despite the criminally low rating count).

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I am going to review this in due time. I am going through a phase of cleaning up the site some, primarily working on the layout and getting the tagging more clear.

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Hip-hop. It's a noticeably touchy subject for extreme music geeks. Hip-hop heads tend to exist separately from your typical KiC-affiliated music obsessive. The only reason I can think of is the tendency for MCs to focus on the superficial.

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One of many albums that I have grown to love and would not have heard if not for the semi-dormant Danny. I think the name gives away what type of music this is, although I think that this is every bit as much a microtonal, maybe even a small jazz album, as it is an electroacoutic one.

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Like the Fly Pan Am post, I came to this under the guise of post-rock. Back then, I thought Alien8 was exceptional (they're still cool, but not as good, imo), and so, when I was just a review writer trying to figure out what I would say about music, and how I would say it, I asked for this record.

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Back in my last.fm days, I wrote a long, detailed piece about this album, specifically its lyrics. Clearly, from the music on this blog, you don't see too many albums about lyrics, and I generally ignore them.

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This is one of those albums that I like, but don't love, yet I always find myself throwing it on at least once every couple months. Personally, I have started to get back into bands that use more conventional instrumentation to do odd things.

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Another avant-classical release on KiC (see that genre tagging is back, so you can click here or at the side bar).

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Slowly, ever since we posted our first In Situ release, I have been trawling through their catalog, finding lovely bits of electro-improvisation and straight out improv. This is a modest release, but still one that should be enjoyable to you.

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I don't intend to write much on this album. I should say that the KiC exposure for the other Guerrero post on here has gotten that album into the top 3 overall in its release year. I have yet to see this march up the charts, but sometimes it takes time.

More piano works, given to me by a very cool RYM friend. If I recall (this was a while ago), this Russian Futurism thing (highly knowledgeable post coming, lol) produced several composers and a host of work, but only a couple are well known today.

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Don Cherry is one of my all-time faves, and I've posted a few of his things on here before. The thing is, apart from a few moments, I don't hear him too much.

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Incredibly satisfying instrumental avant-folk. Very listenable. Had Cerberus Shoal started to worry that they no longer sounded "post-rock" after the release of The Land We All Believe In, this might be what the reversion and subsequent failure (genre-wise) would have sounded like.

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Here is a fantastic follow up post. The Doneda, Le Quan Ninh album was a huge hit, so I put the latter's drum solo up album. Well, here is another Doneda album, with Jack Wright and Nakatani. This is fantastic improv which is every bit as awesome as you're expecting.

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Found this recently via Danny's ratings. I'll leave the back story to Google, but I should say that street musicians of this caliber are very rare. There is one Chinese guy at Union Square that plays a similar instrument with drumsticks (!) and it sounds like Toumani Diabate playing a harpsichord.

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This is pretty much just another great set of pieces (and performances) in my recent modern composition binge. I've heard a few things by Schonberg, but I really like these smaller group pieces.

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Have been waiting on Marclay, because I used to be a turntablist purist, only favoring the highly technical hip-hop DJ variant, however a couple albums, and most importantly, the Canadian Wire (more or less) Music Works (which publishes quarterly), did several stories on a variety of turntable playe

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So, what we have here is a nice piece of music probably most accurately described as dark ambient neofolk, which should come as no surprise since the participants are Martyn Bates (of Eyeless In Gaza and several other projects) and Alan Trench (of Orchis).

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Ghostly ambient, electro acoustic pieces from Schaefer. If you listen to enough of this stuff, and if you listen to the stuff on this blog with any regularity, you do, you'll see the difference when you're dealing with the works of an experienced composer in this field.

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Exciting pieces from Carter, performed admirably. I think some of the percussion can be tiring, but so many of the other sounds are placed very neatly here. Carter is one I need to explore more, but I want to know if he has any chamber pieces that you people like. Let me know.

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Continuing my week of composition, here is a set of fantastic violin pieces. Much of the stuff I have been posting is ultra-modern, atonal at times, often dark. These are much more conventional, but the energy and beauty here is quite uncommon. Urgent, precise energy and stunning technique.

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