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17/07/2025

Friends in London! the amazing Xenia Pestova Bennett will perform pieces from her album Annea Lockwood The Piano Works this coming Tuesday!

Cafe Oto / Tuesday 22 July

Atonal Kat is a sporadic series of sonic soirees curated by Xenia Pestova and Ed Bennett. Join us for intense listening as we walk with our ears.  For our special summer edition of mighty caterwauling, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Seaming To …

11/07/2025

REVIEW by Dionys in Inactuelles Musiques Singulières
Xenia Pestova Bennett | Annea Lockwood The Piano Works

"....le piano gronde, ses cordes grincent et résonnent finement, il ne s'exprime plus que par bribes, puis il s'enthousiasme, tintinnabule, joue de grandes phrases extasiées, avant de se taire, de se recueillir laconiquement au seuil de l'inconnu. Du très grand piano !"

[À propos de la pianiste, de la compositrice et du disque] J'avais beaucoup aimé Shadow Piano de la pianiste Xenia Pestova, paru en 2013 chez Innova Recordings. Je n'avais sans doute pas eu le temps de lui consacrer un article, mais j'avais fait figurer...

10/07/2025

Xenia Pestova Bennett | Annea Lockwood The Piano Works
selected in The Attic Staff Picks June 2025.

An exquisite list of albums and compilation to accompany your summer.

09/07/2025

Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor and Yannis Kyriakides | Handmade vol 03: Tailles
on Utility Fog by Peter Hollo, playlist 6th of July, 2025 on FBi Radio

Art-punk for (very experimental) dancefloors?

"This Handmade series of singles from the Unsounds label represents in some ways the core of the label – although Unsounds encompasses everything from modern composition to experimetnal postpunk to glitchy pop. Along with graphic designer Isabelle Vigier, the label was founded by two of the players here: Netherlands-based Cypriot composer Yannis Kyriakides and Scottish guitarist Andy Moor, who’s played for decades in the Dutch anarcho-punk band The Ex. They’ve made a bunch of albums together, with Moor’s instinctual command of angular guitar phrasing and Kyriakides’ electronics producing unexpected (and brilliant) results. Moor has also collaborated with French avant-garde writer and artist Anne-James Chaton for ages, and their duo recordings follow a similar pattern to these tracks – motorik rhythms looped on guitar, and Chaton’s oblique spoken word poetry slotting in over it. Playing with minimalist rhythms is familiar for Chaton as he’s also worked with Alva Noto; on this series, Kyriakides joins in with additional electronics. Art-punk for (very experimental) dancefloors?"

Experimental maneuvres in pop, hip-hop, jazz, rock and electronics, percussive approaches to musique concrète as well as jazz-rock-tronica, vinyl manipulations with dark electronics, spoken word, field recordings, ambient installation work and post-classical piano. LISTEN AGAIN to the percussion,

07/07/2025

Peak Plastique | Anna McMichael & Clocked Out
REVIEW in Inactuelles Musiques Singulières by Dionys

https://inactuelles.over-blog.com/2025/06/anna-mcmichael-clocked-out-peak-plastique.html

"Un album pétillant de musique contemporaine décomplexée, mené par trois compositeurs-interprètes qui se font évidemment plaisir, et à nous par contrecoup."

McMichael, Griswold, Vanessa Tomlinson, Clocked Out

Le titre déconcertant m'a découragé un temps, puis je suis revenu au disque, qui mérite le détour, comme presque toujours chez l'excellente maison de disques Unsounds. Oubliez le titre de l'album et ceux des pièces, qui déclinent les dénominations des...

04/07/2025

Handmade vol 03: Tailles | Anne-James Chaton & Andy Moor with Yannis Kyriakides is OUT NOW!

Third installment of the Handmade series of four digital singles based on an exploration of the lexicons specific to traditional metiers by Anne-James Chaton and Andy Moor. With guest Yannis Kyriakides on electronics they create works where abstract notions mix with tangible ones by linking the arts of the hand with sound and poetry. With these two new tracks, inspired by the world of tailoring, the trio incorporates spoken word and electronics with experimental angular guitar riffs to produce experimental, sophisticated and beat driven music. Enjoy!

https://unsounds.bandcamp.com/album/handmade-series-vol-03-tailles

Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor - The Ex Kyriakides

04/07/2025

Xenia Pestova Bennett | Annea Lockwood The Piano Works
Best of Contenporary Classical on Bandcamp.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-contemporary-classical/the-best-contemporary-classical-music-on-bandcamp-june-2025

When it comes to the piano, composer Annea Lockwood might be best known for her radical series Piano Transplants, in which instruments that are beyond repair are either transformed into another state of matter or given new life as an outdoor installation(...) But she’s also written a number of sound works for functioning pianos, and it’s those pieces that Xenia Pestova Bennett tackles on this bracing new collection.

Our guide to the month’s best contemporary classical releases.

28/06/2025

27/06/2025

Annea Lockwood the Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett
INTERVIEW in Sounz magazine (NZ)

https://sounz.org.nz/articles/ear-walking-quantum-listening

26/06/2025

Annea Lockwood the Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett REVIEW in Journal of Music by Anna Murray

Pianist Xenia Pestova Bennett has just released 'Annea Lockwood – The Piano Works', comprising four works by the American composer. Anna Murray reviews.

20/06/2025

Out Now:
Annea Lockwood The Piano Works | Xenia Pestova Bennett

This recording of four pieces marks the culmination of a long collaborative relationship between composer and performer and brings together the complete concert piano works by Lockwood. It includes a new version of Ceci n’est pas un piano (originally written in 2002) made especially for this project.
CD with Liner notes by Annea Lockwood.

https://unsounds.com/shop/annea-lockwood-the-piano-works