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15/12/2025

Best New Music Recordings 2025 by George Grella in Kill Yr Idols
https://killyridols.substack.com/i/181378149/best-new-music-recordings
Annea Lockwood, The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett

We are thrilled for Xenia and Annea, this is very deserved: this album is magnificent.

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The past isn't even past, it lives

15/12/2025

Looking for Daniel | Phill Niblock REVIEW in by Ed Pinsent

It has been almost a year since the great Phill Niblock passed. He wrote Biliana for the "heroic" Biliana Voutchkova, and Looking for Daniel is played here my Modelo62 and ensemble Scordatura.

"20 separate scored parts merge into an astonishing shimmering haze of drone, with hidden dissonances at every turn, and effortlessly occupying the same space as many a “spectralist” composer can only dream of ..."

https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/12/13/the-intuitive-voice/

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13/12/2025 Ed Pinsent The Intuitive Voice Another brilliant experiment by Alessandro Bosetti, executed with his characteristic ingenuity allowing him to make complex and layered statements in a very concise way. Portraits De Voix (KOHLHAAS KHS 032) features the voices of Neue Vocalsolisten (a choir....

12/12/2025

Re-Genetic | Claudio F Baroni REVIEW in Percorsi Musicali by Eyal Hareuveni - December 2025

"These compositions stimulate the act of attentive listening as wondering, exploration, and appreciation of vast and perpetual openness, established by the unhinged possibilities of the relations between elements."

Eyal Hareuveni

Argentine, Amsterdam-based composer and pianist Claudio F Baroni’s music is grounded in conceptual ideas that explore gradual compositional processes, memory, and time manipulation. He often focuses on the spoken voice—the voice that simply narrates—and was inspired by the pioneering work of t...

12/12/2025

Re-Genetic by Claudio F Baroni is out now!
CD and DL

In Re-Genetic, composer Claudio F Baroni convokes texts by french author Géraldine Schwarz and american composer Robert Ashley in two evocative compositions in which he sets recorded spoken voices against acoustic and electronic pitched sounds.
By closely following the sonorities of speech and subtly playing along, his compositional principle constitutes a materialized act of listening.
WIth liner notes by Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec.
We are delighted to present this exciting album, the fourth collaboration with Baroni on Unsounds... get your copy now.

https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/re-genetic
https://unsounds.com/shop/cd/re-genetic

04/11/2025

Annea Lockwood the Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett review in Music Map Piergiuseppe Lippolis)y

Annea Lockwood si conferma figura chiave per la musica contemporanea, nonché fine sperimentatrice: un approccio che va oltre il suono “puro” e che, per l’occasione, ha trovato in Bennett una performer sensibile, in grado di conservarne lo spirito pur senza limitarsi a “leggere lo spartito”.

Annea Lockwood confirms herself as a key figure for contemporary music, as well as a fine experimenter: an approach that goes beyond the "pure" sound and that, for the occasion, has found in Bennett a sensitive performer, able to preserve her spirit without limiting herself to "reading the score".

Xenia Pestova Bennett è una pianista, compositrice e improvvisatrice neozelandese, nota soprattutto per il suo repertorio e il suo approccio contemporaneo allo strumento. L’artista ha scoperto per la prima volta la musica di Annea Lockwood, compositrice e musicista accademica statunitense nata in ...

04/11/2025

Listen to Handmade Vol.3 Pas de Danse on
RAI 3
Battiti 17.10.2025, 0.00 - 1.30 am
www.radio3.rai.it

Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor

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04/11/2025

Hypnokasetas | Yannis Kyriakides, this wonderful REVIEW in the Sound Projector by Ed Pinsent.

"... in fact the core of the work is classical chamber music of the avant-mode variety, and the challenges presented by the composition have been well met. Yannis Kyriakides had to find a way to translate his subjective and insubstantial visions into something concrete and replayable; Quatuor Bozzini had to work hard to realise these difficult compositions. They pulled it off, and the results are a set of mysterious and oddly moving episodes, creating delicious tensions as they hover between the ambiguous and the specific. Very good. "

https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/10/22/recurring-dreams/

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22/10/2025 Ed Pinsent Recurring Dreams Yannis Kyriakides suffered strange dreams for a few months when lockdown began. Here with the work Hypnokaséta (UNSOUNDS 82U), he has attempted to score those dreams and re-encode them into something a string quartet could play. Quatuor Bozzini, those eminent ...

10/10/2025

Annea Lockwood The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett, review in Gonzo (circus) by René van Peer

Where Annea lockwood's work and Pestova's playing get compared to Henry Cowell, and The Mothers of Invention. Very cool. Full review in Gonzo 188, october 2025.

"The four pieces on this album are stories, not in the classic sense, but as experiences for who listens to Pestova's playing"

07/10/2025

Annea Lockwood The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett
review in Music Map by Piergiuseppe Lippolis

"Annea Lockwood confirms herself as a key figure for contemporary music, as well as a fine experimenter: an approach that goes beyond the "pure" sound and that, for the occasion, has found in Bennett a sensitive performer, able to preserve his spirit without limiting himself to "reading the score"."

https://www.musicmap.it/recdischi/ordinaperr.asp?id=11853

26/09/2025

CARUSO | David Fennessy REVIEW in the sound projector by Ed Pinsent. Caruso (and David Fennessy) shining yet again in this great review.

"An excellent release, great musicians in the room, and an inventive composer at work, flirting occasionally with meta-music themes in an imaginative and productive way."

https://www.thesoundprojector.com/2025/09/25/the-enrico-time-warp/

Album is available here:
https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/caruso

19/09/2025

Look who's working for his community, with this great car sharing project, super Xavier Charles!

A Pont-de-Barret, dans la Drôme provençale, une trentaine d’habitants se partagent une vieille Citroën ZX. Ce type de dispositif d’autopartage à but non luc...

11/09/2025

Thanks s_t_r_g 4 4 b e r l i n for this great video! from the transfer album by Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor.

uploaded as artist + label support video edit by sascha h. aka s_t_r_g 44 berlin / 2025■track informationartist : andy moor and anne-james chaton title : met...