Artist: Mark Feldman
Title: Sounding Point
Label: Intakt Records
Release Date: 2/12/21
Personnel: Mark Feldman – violin
Impression: Feldman has a long history of dazzling with his imaginative and technical proficiencies in a wide variety of settings, but he has never played more sensitively and inventively than he does on this set of inspiring originals and fascinating covers.
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Artist: Benoît Delbecq
Title: The Weight of Light
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Release Date: 2/12/21
Personnel: Benoît Delbecq – piano
Impression: By now, the Cageian prepared piano tends to invoke rather one-dimensional “outsider” music, but at the hand of a master of Delbecq’s caliber, it is elevated to an idealized and expressive tool for the creation of highly compelling art such as this fine recording.
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Artist: Fred Frith and Ikue Mori
Title: A Mountain Doesn’t Know It’s Tall
Label: Intakt Records
Release Date: 2/12/21
Personnel: Intakt; 2/12; Fred Frith – home-made instruments, various toys and objects, electric guitar; Ikue Mori – laptop electronics
Impression: Frith and Mori stand atop the legions of improvisers working to create beguiling alien landscapes and on this fiery tome they seem to have finally gone and implemented Plan 9.
More Info: Intakt Records site
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