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Arcane Candy’s 2009 Favorite Releases
(In alphabetical order by artist name.) New Releases • Sir Richard Bishop – The Freak of Araby LP (Drag City) • GAS – Nah und Fern 4-CD box set (Kompakt) • Group Bombino…
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Cristian Amigo – Kingdom of Jones
A note to my ears: Cristian Amigo is your friend. This New York-based composer / guitarist cooks up various and sundry sounds into a tasty sonic stew, then hands you the ladle. Kingdom…
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Mark Applebaum – Asylum
Mark Applebaum (born 1967) is a composer of solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic and electro-acoustic music, and a jazz pianist who also builds sound sculptures. He earned a Ph.D. in composition from the…
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Virgil Moorefield – Things You Must Do to Get to Heaven
Virgil Moorefield is a composer, intermedia artist, author and avant-garde / rock drummer who studied at Princeton, Columbia and Juillard, and is currently an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Michigan,…
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Robert Paredes – Forgetting And Remembering
“Robert Paredes (1948-2005) was a composer, multi-woodwind performer, writer and visual artist. He taught electronic music, composition and experimental performance at The University of Iowa, where he received both the MA and Ph.D…
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Erik Belgum – Blodder
Since the early 1980s, Erik Belgum has been working in the field of sound poetry, electro-acoustic music and live performance. Released on CD in 1999 by Innova, Blodder contains seven tracks of spoken…
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Matthew Burtner – Portals of Distortion
The childhood-experienced “sound of wind rushing over the tundra” and “the sound of storms over the ocean” have deeply influenced the six works of this atmospheric CD from Alaskan-born composer Matthew Burtner. The…
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Harry Partch – Delusion of the Fury
Harry Partch (1901-1974) merely succeeded in realizing the most perfectly constructed, personal musical universe of the 20th Century. Shunning twelve-tone equal temperament—which has dominated Western music for well over a hundred years—he formed…
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David Behrman – My Dear Siegfried
David Behrman is perhaps best-known in music circles for talking Columbia Records into releasing a series of experimental electronic and avant-garde classical records on a subsidiary label called Odyssey back in the late…
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Alan Licht – A New York Minute
Working since the 1980s as an author for such mags as Forced Exposure, Halana, The Wire and many more; and player in outfits like Run On, Love Child, The Pacific Ocean, Text of…
