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Arcane Candy’s 2013 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving LP (Matador) • Fille Qui Mousse – Trixie Stapelton 291 – Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop…
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Juan Blanco – Nuestro Tiempo / Our Time
Who would ever imagine that electro-acoustic music could thrive in a place like Cuba? Not me! Alas, in the mid-20th century, Juan Blanco (1919-2008) became one of the earliest adopters of experimental music…
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Chris Watson – In St. Cuthbert’s Time: The Sounds of Lindisfarne and the Gospels
In St. Cuthbert’s Time: The Sounds of Lindisfarne and the Gospels is a set of conceptual field recordings made by noted wildlife / BBC sound recordist Chris Watson. Employing nothing but captured soundwaves…
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Mika Vainio + Joachim Nordwall – Monstrance
According to the New Oxford American Dictionary, in the Roman Catholic Church, a monstrance is “an open or transparent receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for veneration.” Outside of the Roman…
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Cristian Vogel – Eselsbrucke
Cristian Vogel is a composer of electronic music who has been at it since the late 1980s, pumping out a seemingly endless amount of tracks full of avant grade-influenced techno and pop, as…
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Berangere Maximin – Infinitesimal
Berangere Maximin is one of those rare birds: a female composer of experimental music. Let’s throw on our binoculars and take a quick look at her life. Calling Paris France home, she has…
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Grauton – Zwischen
As the old saying goes, a rose by any other name is still a rose.* So it goes with Karen Geyer, who is also known as Grauton. A musician hailing from Zurich, Switzerland,…
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Bryan Lewis Saunders – Bed Bugs 1-3
Painter, musician, poet, performer and all around twisted Renaissance man Bryan Lewis Saunders is one talented and prolific individual. In addition to all of the aforementioned endeavors, he also somehow finds time to…
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Herbert Deutsch – From Moog to Mac
Composer Herbert Deutsch (born 1932) was Professor Emeritus of Music at Hofstra University, where he taught for a mere 55 years and inaugurated their electronic music studio, and many other music programs. In…
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Ellen Band + David Lee Myers – Two Ships
Two Ships is a set of live, improvised electro-acoustic music by the duo of Ellen Band–who is actually a woman, not a band–and David Lee Myers, who is actually a man, not a…
