Wednesday, May 29, 2019

BKLYN Music: favourite things | 4.19

Posted: 21 May 2019 11:36 AM PDT

favourite things 4.19 – Victor Haskins, Jesse Koolhaas feat. Joost Swart & Joris Roelofs, Kinkajous, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Resavoir, Terkel Nørgaard, Tiago Frúgoli Ensemble, Alfa Mist, Melodiesinfonie feat.Junes, C.Tappin, Jitwam, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Azymuth, V.C.R, ShunGu feat. Pink Siifu, Anderson .Paak feat. André 3000, Nappy Nina, Nolan The Ninja feat. Jaye Prime, Clever Austin, Loyle Carner, Skinnyblackboy, Harleighblu & Bluestaeb, Beatboxbandit, Your Old Droog feat. DOOM & Mach-Hommy, Shafiq Husayn feat. Om’Mas Keith & Taz Arnold & Jon Bap, Pivot Gang feat. Mick Jenkins, Kate Tempest, Scott Xylo!

NPR Jazz: Joel Ross And His (Exceptionally) Good Vibes

Joel Ross And His (Exceptionally) Good Vibes

Posted: 23 May 2019 02:02 AM PDT

Joel Ross performs at Lantaren Venster on May 2, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The vibraphonist has a "love-hate relationship" with his instrument that has been helpful in perfecting his craft — but it wouldn't mean much without the deep emotional well he pulls from.
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Potholes In My Blog: Àbáse’s “Invocation”, from Budapest to Africa

Àbáse’s “Invocation”, from Budapest to Africa

Posted: 24 May 2019 06:36 AM PDT

“Invocation” is the debut EP from Àbáse, a keyboardist and producer out of Budapest. It featuring guest performers from Africa and Budapest’s “buzzing music scene”, which I apparently need to dig further into. 40 minutes of funky, upbeat Afro-jazz.

FACT Magazine Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal @ Musique Non Stop

Tim Hecker, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono added to MUTEK Montréal

Posted: 28 May 2019 10:14 AM PDT

The festival has expanded the program for its 20th anniversary edition.
Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble, Deena Abdelwahed and Overmono are just some of the artists that have been added to the program for this year’s edition of MUTEK Montréal.
They will join previously confirmed acts Beta Librae, Huerco S., Nkisi, Ash Koosha, Blawan, Call Super, GAIKA, Jan Jelinek and Jlin for the festival’s 20th anniversary edition.

Additional highlights include performances from Rashad Becker & Ena, Drew McDowall & Florence To, D. Tiffany and Matmos.
MUTEK Montréal takes over six days from August 20 – 25, tickets are available now. See below for a complete list of acts added to the program.
Akiko Nakayama — Alive Painting (JP)
Aquaventure (CA/QC)
Auflassen (CA/QC)
Bendik Giske (NO)
Ben Shemie (CA/QC)
BYZ (US/QC)
Chloe Alexandra Thompson — Morié (CA/US)
CMD (CA/QC)
D.Tiffany — DJ set
Deena Abdelwahed (TN/FR)
Desert Bloom (CA/QC)
Domenique Dumont (LV)
Drew McDowall & Florence To — Time Machines (UK)
Dust-e-1 (US/QC)
Ensemble d’oscillateurs
Errhead (CA/QC)
Expansys (CA/QC)
fuse* presents Dökk (IT)
Gabriel Rei (CA/QC)
Hugues Clément — The Colour of the Rain (CA/QC)
Jonathan Scherk & Daniel Majer (CA)
Joni Void & Sonya Stefan — Mise en Abyme (CA/QC)
Kazuya Nagaya (JP)
Khotin (CA)
Lucas Paris — Emotional Synthesis (FR/QC)
Matmos (US)
Nelly-Eve Rajotte — Rückenfigur (CA/QC)
Nueve Vidas & Rimiyoho — Organismos Oníricos (MX)
Ohm Hourani — Jazz of the Machine (CA/QC)
Organ Mood (CA/QC)
Ouri (CA/QC)
Overmono (UK)
Persuasion (US/QC)
Pick a Piper (CA)
Pōe (CA/QC)
Priori (CA/QC)
Quan — Quanalog system 1.0 (VN/QC)
Rashad Becker & Ena (DE+JP)
Slim Media Player (CA)
Stephanie Castonguay — Scanner Me, Darkly (CA/QC)
Steve Bates & Michaela Grill — Black Seas (CA/QC+AT)
Sutekh — DJ set (US)
Tamayugé (CA/QC)
The Quark Model (IR/QC)
Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble (CA+JP)
Tortues Vapeur (CA/QC)
Uji (AR)
V.ictor — Boréal (CA/QC)
Xavier Lebuis (CA/QC)
Read next: MUTEK.MX 2018 – 7 highlights of Mexico's premier electronic music festival
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RAPPAMELO | SAULT – 5 | Musique Non Stop

SAULT – 5

Posted: 28 May 2019 07:33 AM PDT

SAULT. 5. well. yeah. good. yeah. Available. at. smarturl.it/SAULT5. enjoy.
full stream. Spotify. Deezer.

THE JAZZ CHILL CORNER Little Steven And The Interstellar Jazz Renegades' Score For Netflix's First Original Series "Lilyhammer" To Be Released For First Time On July 12 In Two Volumes Via Wicked Cool/UMe

Little Steven And The Interstellar Jazz Renegades' Score For Netflix's First Original Series "Lilyhammer" To Be Released For First Time On July 12 In Two Volumes Via Wicked Cool/UMe

Posted: 28 May 2019 01:20 PM PDT

For his starring role in Netflix's groundbreaking first original series, "Lilyhammer," actor/musician Steven Van Zandt explored uncharted waters as a New York mobster who flees to Norway under the witness protection program. In addition to acting in, co-writing and co-producing the acclaimed show, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer also scored the music for most of the three seasons, where just like his character, the musician best known as Little Steven of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and an accomplished solo artist who helped pioneer the rock-meets-soul sound, also delved into some terrain foreign to him: the worlds of New York jazz and Norwegian folk music. For the first time, the music from the show, which ended in 2014, has been collected together and will be released as two separate albums – Lilyhammer The Score - Volume 1: Jazz and Volume 2: Folk, Rock, Rio, Bits And Pieces – on CD, digital and 180-gram black vinyl on July 12 via Wicked Cool/UMe. Starting today, "My Kind Of Town, Van Zandt's spin on the Frank Sinatra standard featured on Volume 1, and his Tito Puente-inspired mambo tune "Mojito" on Volume 2, are available for streaming and immediate download with the corresponding preorder. A video of "My Kind Of Town" featuring Van Zandt's performance of the song on the show mixed with memorable scenes from across the series is available to watch and share here: https://UMe.lnk.to/MyKindOfTownVideoPR

The music of "Lilyhammer" was arranged and produced by Van Zandt and recorded at his Renegade Studios in New York and at various studios in Norway while in the midst of filming. It was recorded, mixed and co-produced by Geoff Sanoff and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering.

Flying Lotus: Flamagra review – stuck in a cosmic time-warp

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Steven “FlyLo” Ellison usually releases an album of his collapsed nu-jazz every other year to roaring acclaim, but has spent much of the past half-decade producing for Kendrick, mentoring Thundercat and rowing back his imbecilic defence of alleged rapist the Gaslamp Killer. This long-delayed sixth album, weakly based around the concept of fire, is a mixtape sprawl with high-profile features including David Lynch, Solange and Little Dragon. Yet despite being so revered for futurism, Ellison often settles for retreading his past. It feels like these are 27 job applications for top production gigs, rather than songs.

It’s a treat to hear Anderson .Paak and the flame he always brings to a booth on More, but it’s a rare highlight. Burning Down the House refamiliarises us with late-period George Clinton, sounding more than ever like a man struggling to unfold a map on a tram, backed by funk that’s far more Z than P.

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Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Natalie Portman criticises 'creepy' Moby over 'disturbing' account of friendship

Musician says in memoir the pair dated, but Portman disputes account, saying ‘my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me’

Natalie Portman has criticised Moby for a “very disturbing” account of their friendship in his new memoir Then It Fell Apart.

In the book, the musician, now 53, claims the pair dated when he was 33 and Portman was 20, after she met him backstage in Austin, Texas. He recounts going to parties in New York with her, and to see her at Harvard University, “kissing under the centuries-old oak trees. At midnight she brought me to her dorm room and we lay down next to each other on her small bed. After she fell asleep I carefully extracted myself from her arms and took a taxi back to my hotel.” He says that he then struggled with anxiety about their relationship: “It wanted one thing: for me to be alone … nothing triggered my panic attacks more than getting close to a woman I cared about.” Later, he writes: “For a few weeks I had tried to be Natalie’s boyfriend, but it hadn’t worked out,” writing that she called to tell him she had met someone else.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Stockhausen syndrome: can we separate the mythology from the music?

His ego knew no bounds … but neither did his extraordinary music. As his epic opera Donnerstag aus Licht is staged in the UK for the first time in 34 years, we separate the cult from the culture of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Matched in musical-myth-mania perhaps only by Richard Wagner, Karlheinz Stockhausen is the ultimate conundrum for those of us who believe keenly in shifting classical music culture away from its alpha-male genius complex – but are still enthralled by the music. Do we get to have it both ways?

The German-born composer was the self-mythologiser extraordinaire who had entrancing charisma, bullish intelligence, no shortage of game-changing opinions, nor shortage of confidence with which to assert them. A guru with disciples and rivals, he fostered a personality cult that went way beyond his music to encompass fashion, spirituality, even a galactic origin story. Isn’t this precisely the artist-as-hero narrative we need to dismantle?

He declared that God gave birth to him on the star Sirius, and that he was musically educated up there in the galaxy

Sink into Donnerstag and you'll hear wondrous orchestral kaleidoscopics, vocal elasticity, vintage 70s electronic wizardry

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by Kate Molleson via Electronic music | The Guardian

The month's best mixes: steely funk, Lisbon tarraxo and hardcore psychedelia

Our May selection features Job Sifre’s bitter electro, TSVI’s polyrhythms, and a trip down memory lane with Tama Sumo

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by Lauren Martin via Electronic music | The Guardian

Monday, May 20, 2019

Village Cuts at Nozstock Festival 19/07

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Dele Sosimi at The Old Market Assembly on 21/06

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Beats, rhymes and strife: how ravers raised the roof on mass protest

A new film about Glasgow’s thumping 90s clubland traces a lineage of grassroots radicalism still thriving today

Beats is a gem of a film that has drawn attention not just for its exuberant depiction of early 1990s rave culture but the deeper questions it raises, 25 years on, about the legislation that criminalised the free party movement – and about how the UK pivoted from Reclaim the Streets, via Cool Britannia, to Brexit Britain.

Set in the summer of 1994, as the Criminal Justice Bill threatened to outlaw musical gatherings around “sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”, the film charts the friendship – by turns madcap and tender – between teenagers Johnno and Spanner as they struggle to escape the restrictions of family and class on their West Lothian housing estate. With the help of a sisterly gang of older girls, the boys bounce into their local rave scene and soak up the ethic that “the only good system is a sound system, and if I can’t dance then it’s not my revolution”.

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by Libby Brooks via Electronic music | The Guardian

Thursday, May 16, 2019

The best UK garage tracks – ranked!

It’s 20 years since Sweet Like Chocolate became the biggest UK garage hit. Time to re-rewind and select the scene’s best tracks

The apotheosis of UK garage as pop, Sweet Like Chocolate was a platinum-selling No 1 in 1999. A noticeably more toothsome and commercial take on garage than its predecessor – Straight from the Heart, recorded when Shanks & Bigfoot were still called Doolally – it was apparently beloved of Britney Spears.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2019

Wah Wah 45s at Giant Steps on 16/06

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Dele Sosimi at Queens Hall, Narbeth on 17/05

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Dom Servini + Scrimshire at The Horse & Groom on 25/05

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Dom Servini + Scrimshire at Bussey Building on 18/05

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Actress x Stockhausen Sin (x) II review – transcendent AI-driven opera

Royal Festival Hall, London
DJ and producer Actress strays even further from the dancefloor as he takes on Stockhausen’s famously over the top Mittwoch by sampling Westminster debates

You can see why Karlheinz Stockhausen might appeal to the DJ and producer Darren Cunningham, AKA Actress. Like Stockhausen, Actress makes mischievous soundscapes that gleefully cite arcane references, from absurdist Japanese painter Yayoi Kusama to sculptor Anish Kapoor, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to Jungian psychology.

Tonight’s performance is loosely based on the opening act of Mittwoch, part of Stockhausen’s bonkers 29-hour opera cycle Licht. The complete work famously features a dancing camel and a quartet of cellos, each playing in separate airborne helicopters. This section is adapted from the opening act, Welt-Parliament, in which a group of politicians – played by a medieval-style plainsong choir – discuss the meaning of love. (Tonight’s script uses actual quotes from a recent Westminster debate.)

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Monday, May 13, 2019

'We're not beard-strokers!' Wigflex, Nottingham's 'rudeboy techno' night

With its hotchpotch of electro, breakbeat and garage, Wigflex has become a beacon in Nottingham where ‘there’s not loads of things to do, so people come and forget their troubles’

When soulful singer-songwriter Yazmin Lacey first met Lukas Cole, AKA Lukas Wigflex, she told him his party didn’t sound appealing. “He’s like, ‘Yeah come down!’ And I told him I wasn’t really into that kind of music,” she says. “There’s not a lot of people I know running nights that would stand there at a house party and take that on the chin.”

Accepting a free ticket anyway, Lacey put her theory to the test, and lost. Still not always sold on techno, she’s now a Wigflex regular, lured on to the dancefloor by the open attitude and lack of black-clad affectation Nottingham’s most respected nocturnal session is known for.

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How a new coming-of-age indie captures the spirit of illegal raves

Beats is the latest film to focus on 90s rave culture and its political implications

Modern Toss on rave culture

Incredible as it seems now, in 1994, the British government attempted to outlaw dance music. Like a resentful preacher in a repressive small American town, John Major’s government imposed the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act (CJA), which sought to smite down upon the public menace known as “rave culture”. Triggered by the outbreak of peace, ecstasy and illegal partying that swept Britain in the late 1980s and early 90s, the CJA ushered in new curtailments of civil liberty, the most notorious being Section 63 (1) (b), which legally defined the troublesome music as that which “includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.”

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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Holly Herndon: Proto review – dizzying beauty and bracing beats

(4AD)

It’s credit to Holly Herndon’s skill as a musical guide that her third album, though up to its elbows in complex ideas, feels so invigorating. Her boldest attempt yet to reconfigure modern dilemmas musical, technological and philosophical, it looks back, finding inspiration in the church choirs of her youth, and leaps forward, with a self-designed “AI baby” called Spawn – no android overlord, but just another member of her ensemble.

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Laurence Pike: Holy Spring review – cosmic drum trips

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A solo album by an improvisational drummer would in most circumstances elicit a wary groan, but Australia’s Laurence Pike is no ordinary percussionist. He’s played with a miscellany of jazzers (notably pianist Mike Nock), and embraced genres from psych to electronica to spiritual jazz. Nonetheless, his 2018 debut, Distant Early Warning, was a surprise, blending Pike’s rhythmic skills with sounds culled from a drumpad sampler to create an uber-ambient suite, part acoustic, part electronic.

Holy Spring doubles down on that approach with impressive results. It’s inspired by Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Russian title Sacred Spring), and aims “to connect with something universal”. It certainly does. Pieces such as Dance of the Earth rumble and thud, overlaid by splashes of cymbals, with more rhythmic trickery than Reich or Glass could serve up. Drum Chant, with indigenous Australian clapsticks in the mix, evokes the pulse of that continent’s vast, red interior. Elsewhere, it’s deep space that is conjured up. On Daughter of Mars, aliens appear to be calling to the blue planet, while the title track could serve as the soundtrack for a close encounter. Full of morphing grooves and moods of imminent revelation, it’s a quicksilver delight.

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Saturday, May 11, 2019

Four Tet review – lets there be lights and a touch of magic

Alexandra Palace, London
Kieran Hebden hits a new career high as he brings his eclectic club music to the masses with a dazzling stage show

Daylight is still streaming in through the stained glass of this secular cathedral at the top of north London when Kieran Hebden, known most often as Four Tet, starts triggering noises from his rig. The enduring light of late spring underscores how early it is by the standards of electronic music: not long after 8.30pm.

And yet roughly 10,000 excited people are crammed in and around a large rectangular section at the centre of the hall, where dangling ropes of lightbulbs create an immersive 3D space. This is Four Tet’s renowned light show, designed by Squidsoup, lighting artists who have been working with him since 2015: a “30m x 30m volume of lights, over 40,000 individually addressable points”, they specify.

Hebden has arrived at a particularly sweet spot. Tech has set Four Tet free. Tonight’s gig is very 'Insta-ready'

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Friday, May 10, 2019

Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! review – joyful, loving testimony to black artists

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On her 2016 debut Heavn, musician, teacher and activist Jamila Woods crafted an ode to her home town of Chicago, and a new kind of protest music. Her contemplative, modern style of soul is built both for marching, and for recuperation, when you need to recover from the fight.

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Rosie Lowe: YU review – seductive, minimalist soul probes power balance

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Rosie Lowe’s 2016 major label debut, Control, explored the need to retain – and occasionally, learn to relinquish – power, especially relating to a woman in the music industry. Three years and a switch from Polydor to Adele/Florence producer Paul Epworth’s indie label later, the 29-year-old Devon-born Londoner slightly changes tack. When YU– pronounced ‘You’ and also ‘Why You’ – investigates the same themes, it’s within a relationship. It’s an album about love: insecurities, desire, contentment and the shifting balance of power. Her vehicle, again, is smooth, sultry, minimalist, electronic soul and R&B, somewhere between James Blake and Sade or Minnie Ripperton. There’s a hushed stillness to the way Lowe’s words glide over the stripped-down, becalmed grooves, before gentle soul gives way to more uptempo beats and sentiments. With that template, it’s a varied mix.

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Holly Herndon: Proto review – dystopia averted! AI and IRL in pop harmony

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Herndon’s own AI, Spawn, augments her group’s flesh-and-blood vocals to challenge our fear that machines are taking over

There’s something soothing about how rubbish Google’s new predictive email tools are – if AI can’t work out what you want to tell your accounts department, then it won’t be organising a Terminator-style insurrection any time soon. So what hope does AI have for composing music, if bland office missives are too creatively challenging?

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Thursday, May 9, 2019

Resonators at The Jazz Cafe on 10/05

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