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Fiona Talkington with Laurie Anderson at Punkt 2014
Fiona Talkington meets Laurie Anderson for a lunch date at the Punkt festival in Kristiansand, Norway.
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Punkt Notes 2: Tilbury/Rowe/Bjørgeengen -
Despite the shortcomings, the performance was never anything other than interesting at the very least. It may have wrestled somewhat with a text that would make powerful demands upon any musician...
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Aphex Twin - Syro
My initial thoughts on the "Syro" material were "uhhh …?" (Visualise hairy fool with open-mouth, teetering perilously close to allowing the drool of utter confusion spill from its corner).
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Fiona Talkington with Jana Winderen at Punkt 2014
Fiona Talkington meets Jana Winderen for a noisy lunch break during a sound check at the Punkt festival in the seaside port of Kristiansand, Norway.
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Thom Yorke - Tomorrow's Modern Boxes
It is unfortunate that the majority of those who will listen to this album will do so in order to divine what the (recently-confirmed-as-coming-into-existence) next Radiohead album might sound like....
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Punkt 2014 performance - Streifenjunko + Sheriffs of Nothingness
A sonorous wall of happy energetic sound from an unlikely combination of instruments.
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Trialogue by Bugge Wesseltoft, Henrik Schwarz & Dan Berglund
This is a very beautifully executed album, with several funny elements that made me smile over and over again. On the album title one can speculate if this is trial, or a dialogue between the 3...
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Morphing Between Spaces and Phases by Skyggespill (Kjetil Husebø)
I simply adore music that produces moving images in my mind's eye. Morphing Between Spaces and Phases is doing that very well. If you enjoy music that will make your mind wander into interesting...
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Another view on "Trialogue"
"Trialogue" is a very consistent album that through both rhythmic and more laid-back tracks never compromises the aforementioned balance, both between all three musicians and between the acoustic and...
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Marcin Wasilewski Trio w/ Joakim Milder - "Spark of Life"
"Spark of Life" is the best album so far from the Wasilewski trio, and the addition of Milder to the mix is a success, where Milder's playing style blends smoothly with the trio's unique sound.
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The Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg
Jazz meets chamber orchestra on the amusement ground. This is the setting for Ola Kvernberg's fifth album on Jazzland Recordings. The 7 compositions found on the record are based on the Thank you...
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Scott Walker + Sunn O))) – Soused
I don't need to know the ingredients in this goulash: it looks good, it tastes good and I feel damn good after eating it. Fuck it – I like it.
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Arve Henriksen - The Nature of Connections
Henriksen appears to be on a roll at the moment. This is his third release in twelve months alongside a very busy tour schedule with endless permutations of musicians. With "The Nature of Connections"...
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Erik Honoré - Heliographs
It is not an album to be rushed, nor "scanned", nor sampled "track by track": it is a whole experience. That experience is a rewarding one, and worth repeating. Again. And Again. And AGAIN
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Andrea Belfi – Natura Morta
While the pure craftsmanship of this album is clear, it is its innate artistry in capturing sonically the concept of still life, "Natura Morta", that makes this album so captivating.
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Mathias Eick Quintet @ Sardinen, USF - Bergen, Norway 2014-10-10
Does it sound good? The answer - with regard to Eick's music in general and this concert in particular - is an unequivocal YES!
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Another review of "The Nature of Connections"
The album is a study in understatement ... a slow-flowing river with those subtle intros and long, meditative passages of lyrical playing where the sense of time and place dissolves. This is music...
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Lunatic Soul – Walking on a Flashlight Beam
While the album is perhaps a little uneven, lacking here, overburdened there, it is a satisfying one. It is certainly the best Lunatic Soul offering to date, and, to my ears at least, the best Duda...
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The Young Mothers - A Mother's Work Is Never Done
Under interrogation, bass-slinger Ingebrigt Håker Flaten was unable to produce conclusive answers as to what the organization known as The Young Mothers was actually up to.
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