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CD Review, Electro-Acoustic, File Under?

Best of 2021: Electronic

  Supermundane  John Thayer Self-released   Far In Helado Negro 4AD   Weightless (10 hour version) Signals Marconi Union Just Music   Changing Landscapes (Isle of Eigg) Arthur King AKP   Fast Idol Black Marble Sacred Bones     Ookii Gekkou Vanishing Twin Fire Records   John Thayer is a musician who wears many hats: composer, audio engineer, sound artist, and percussionist. He has played with a host of new music performers, including Zeena Parkins, Daniel Carter, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Kato Hideki, Ezra Feinberg, Arp, Robbie Lee,  Jeff Tobias, and Jim Pugliese. It is his work with Arp that is likely

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Best of, CD Review, File Under?, jazz

Best of 2021: Three Recordings Featuring Matthew Shipp (CD Review)

Codebreaker Matthew Shipp TAO Forms CD Village Mothership Whit Dickey, drums; William Parker, bass Matthew Shipp, piano;  TAO Forms CD Procedural Language CD Live at SESC Blu-ray DVD Ivo Perelman, saxophones; Matthew Shipp, piano SMP boxed set   In both solo and group settings, Pianist Matthew Shipp has continued to prolifically record in 2021. His collaborations with longtime partners, drummer Whit Dickey and bassist William Parker on Village Mothership, and Procedural Language, a celebration of his two-decade musical odyssey with saxophonist Ivo Perelman, are scintillating reminders of Shipp’s development of a fluid musical language that adapts to different scenarios. In

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