Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Califone’s “Echo Mine”

Echo Mine constitutes a new partnership, a farewell and a reunion. It's the name for a dance choreographed and performed

February 20, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

One quality that Paal Nilssen-Love has sustained across decades of work in improvised music is transparency. No matter who he

February 14, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Is any topic better suited to being rendered in a non-native language than love? You want to make yourself clear,

January 28, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Oval maneuvers in elliptical fashion between experimental and pop music. At one extreme, there’s methodology: Markus Popp (since 1995, the

January 22, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Matthew Shipp has often applied the word “cosmic” to his music. While there’s nothing at all spacey about his bold

January 20, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Joseph Allred is on a roll. In the last year, he has released a CD-R, two tapes and three LPs

January 13, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In the Old Testament, Absalom is a guy so good looking, popular and sure of himself that he gets away

January 8, 2020 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania