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Newspeak – Sweet Light Crude
Just like Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies, Newspeak strikes oil with Sweet Light Crude, a dark, chocolately album that could easily keep a whole nation full of chamber rock lovers well lubricated…
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Victoire – Cathedral City
Victoire is a chamber rock ensemble founded way back in 2008 by New York composer Missy Mazzoli. Possibly named after a small, dusty town in a Southern California desert, Cathedral City fills a…
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Janus – I Am Not
I am not going to begin this review with the sentence, “I am not going to begin this review with the sentence.” Oops, I just did–twice. I am not even going to tell…
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Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope
No, silly, this album is not about Penelope Pitstop from Wacky Races, so sit down and stop yelling, “Yay!” It does, however, tell a story about another Penelope whose “husband appears at her…
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Mark Applebaum – The Metaphysics of Notation
Mark Applebaum’s The Metaphysics of Notation is a musical composition based on a purely graphic score with no written or verbal instructions. For a whole year, this document, which more closely resembles abstract…
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Iannis Xenakis at the REDCAT 2011
Los Angeles, California January 28-30, 2011 Friday, January 28, 2011 Presented by the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology, the first night of this three-day festival kicked off in a surprising…
