Lars Gotrich
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The singer makes four simple words into an Escher-esque puzzle built on loops and layers of her voice.
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Costa's voice was a key part of the sound that combined Brazilian pop music, psychedelic rock and the avant-garde in the late 1960s. -
Joe Bussard not only sought out obscure 78-rpm records that otherwise would have disappeared, but shared the music with giddy excitement.
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On Kali Malone's "Living Torch II," distortion and feedback reshape mourning into triumph.
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On the guitarist's first string quartet composition, she comes with a dramatic precision.
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At his last recorded concerts, the avant-garde outlaw's seemingly disparate sound worlds came together.
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OHYUNG is better known as a producer of hyperactive hip-hop and pop music, but on a new double cassette plays with shapes of tender ambient sound.
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Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.
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"Jesus Maria" simmers the regal, brass-forward Christmas carol composed by Carla Bley into a sunset.
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A deep listening experience from the ambient-jazz quartet.
