Yes, nobody in the world can play piano as fast, and with as uncanny dexterity and melodic sensitivity as Lubomyr Melnyk. The bearded, stoic hippy, the man with the Guinness World Record-sanctioned Fastest Hands in the World™, has returned for his next album, Fallen Trees. The album release coincides with Melnyk’s 70th birthday, and it consists of a 20-minute, 5-part epic that wavers between staccato and sustained, like drops of rain coalescing into a flood.
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Roc Marciano Behold a Dark Horse
Styles: literature, mack rap
Others: Behold a Pale Horse, Q-Tip, Grand Daddy I.U.
I. Influence
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Kali Malone The Stockholm-based composer talks DIY spaces, tuning organs, and happy accidents
The Stockholm-based composer talks DIY spaces, tuning organs, and happy accidents
I learned of Kali Malone after a musician friend off-handedly mentioned that they had made a “Kali Malone-type beat.” I do not remember how but I somehow found the composition “Velocity of Sleep.” Soon after, I tweeted “Kali Malone has changed my life,” although, I didn’t know what I meant by that until a bit later.
More about: Hästköttskandalen, Kali Malone, Sorrowing Christ, Swap Babies, Upper Glossa
Tashi Wada with Yoshi Wada and Friends FRKWYS Vol. 14 - Nue
Styles: drone, fluxus, minimalism
Others: La Monte Young, Julia Holter, Pauline Oliveros
Yoshi Wada’s music typically unspools in hyper slow motion. His most monumental works — the ones that cast him, alongside La Monte Young, as one of the preeminent drone pioneers of the mid-20th century — are durational masterpieces that flirt with the eternal and explore the complexities of resonance in groundbreaking ways. His son, Tashi Wada, has picked up the latter element of his father’s music and expounded on it in various contexts.
More about: Corey Fogel, Jessika Kenney, Julia Holter, Laura Steenberge, Simone Forti, Tashi Wada, Yoshi Wada
Black Belt Eagle Scout Mother of My Children
Styles: “melodic and a little grungy,” an elegy but sturdy
Others: Geneviève Castrée, Angel Olsen, Vagabon
Mother of My Children begins with want and tips into waste. It ends with a waiting, like all lives do.
The first song is the best song, the expansive, throttling “Soft Stud,” something to hang from, something to love. “Need you want you/ Need you want you,” Katherine Paul sings. “I know you’re taken,” Katherine Paul sings. So I listen again. Wanting is waiting, just aggravated. You can hear that too, in the guitar solo that ends the song.
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Amnesia Scanner Another Life
Styles: deviant art
Others: @inzane_johnny
THE ONLY POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP TO AESTHETICS TODAY IS A CRIMINAL ONE — a bad reproduction, a sniveling simulacrum, an amnesia scan of Moten & Harney
AS as simile,
as device of commensuration and comparison,
as simulation and symmetriba
as appropriation and extraction,
as the imprimatur of reproducibility and the material amnesia it extorts,
as another life inscribed as palimpsest onto a referent — a referent gone A.W.O.L.,
as the representational forfeiture of facelessness,
as the daemonic choreography of embodied discipline,
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Jim O’Rourke and Oren Ambarchi do the logical thing: team up to make millions on new LP for Editions Mego
In hindsight, it seems practically inevitable.
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2018: Third Quarter Favorites 25 incredible music releases from the last three months
For each year's first three quarters, we celebrate by sharing a list of our favorite music releases. Unlike our year-end lists, these quarter features are casually compiled, with an aim to spotlight the underdogs and the lesser-heard among the more popular picks. More from this series
25 incredible music releases from the last three months
At last, we present our final quarter feature before heading into the year-end festivities. Our favorite releases from 2018’s third quarter — spanning roughly mid-June to mid-September — were culled somewhat informally through staff ratings and individual pitches, resulting in picks that flow right into TMT’s general taste next to ones that feel resistant to the awkward, subsuming implications of a “canonizing” endeavor like this.
For each year's first three quarters, we celebrate by sharing a list of our favorite music releases. Unlike our year-end lists, these quarter features are casually compiled, with an aim to spotlight the underdogs and the lesser-heard among the more popular picks. More from this series
Favorite Rap Mixtapes of September 2018 From Bruiser Brigade & Bhad Bhabie to Young Dolph & YungManny
From Bruiser Brigade & Bhad Bhabie to Young Dolph & YungManny
With a cascade of releases spewing from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this hyper-prolific world and share our favorite releases each month. The focus will primarily be on rap mixtapes — loosely defined here as free (or sometimes free-to-stream) digital releases — but we’ll keep things loose enough to branch out if/when we feel it necessary.
More about: BHAD BHABIE, Bruiser Brigade, Chris Crack, Cyrax, DA$H, Danny Brown, iiye, Pink Siifu, Swarvy, Young Dolph, YungManny
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Lil Wayne finally drops Tha Carter V (we never doubted him for a second)
You know the old saying: “Lil Wayne plans; God laughs; the music press reports on it no matter what.” Well, that omnipotent bastard isn’t laughing tonight, folks, because after four long years of waiting, Weezy’s hotly-anticipated Tha Carter V is out now through Young Money/Republic/Universal. That’s right: you can actually listen to 2014’s would-be hottest album at this very moment. But… you know, keep reading the article, too.
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