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Work of Progress & Etudes by J.Lynch

https://difficultartandmusic.bandcamp.com/album/work-of-progress-etudes Genre: Experimental Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 4/5 stars released February 15, 2023 Works of Progress and Etudes is made up of very purposeful compositions that remind me of the early works of Schoenberg. There are many composers I could compare this to and it might seem like a later electronic composer would makeContinue reading “Work of Progress & Etudes by J.Lynch”

Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV by Quatuor Bozzini

https://collectionqb.bandcamp.com/album/liane-radigue-occam-delta-xv Genre: Contemporary Classical Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ plus (world heritage level) released January 24, 2023 This is such an important release that it’s really important to me to do it justice when writing about it. Now that Radigue has reached her nineties I’m starting to feel a reverence for her similar to how I felt aboutContinue reading “Éliane Radigue: Occam Delta XV by Quatuor Bozzini”

Tiga Bilangan by Rizky Argadipradja, Wahono

https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/tiga-bilangan Genre: Experimental Avant-Garde Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 Release Date: January 19, 2023 The sound on this one is like 1940’s serial compositions but with a looser improvised feel rather than the austere feel of the written music from that era. The artists are a duo from Indonesia. The three stars are pretty much obligatory basedContinue reading “Tiga Bilangan by Rizky Argadipradja, Wahono”

Stefano Gervasoni: Gramigna Divertimento Ensemble

Genre: Contemporary Rating: 5/5 stars Release Date: 13th May 2022 Gervasoni is an Italian composer who studied under Brian Ferneyhough and György Ligeti back in the 1990’s. Ferneyhough is the top dog of the New Complexity movement which takes more is more to probably the most extreme heights it has ever reached. If you’ve neverContinue reading “Stefano Gervasoni: Gramigna Divertimento Ensemble”

A Thousand Butterflies by Aftab Darvishi

https://aftabdarvishi.bandcamp.com/album/a-thousand-butterflies Genre: Classical Rating: Very highly recommended Released in 2022 Davishi’s debut includes five beautifully haunting lyrical compositions. Her style is restrained and confident, feeling no need to lean too heavily into one tradition or another. The music feels to be uniquely hers and very honest. I believe this music expresses exactly what she wantedContinue reading “A Thousand Butterflies by Aftab Darvishi”