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Shane Parish is a multifaceted guitarist that has crafted numerous interesting arrangements of pieces from various genres for his chosen instrument. His latest,


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It would appear Shane Parish likes a challenge. First of all, how to follow Repertoire, an album that saw the guitarist cover everyone from John Cage and Alice Coltrane to Aphex Twin and Charles Mingus. And second, once a theme has been decided, how to create it? In this instance, Parish has decided to cover Autechre. On an acoustic guitar. And then ...


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A quick trip down the streaming rabbit hole to discover that Nathan Fake’s most popular track – by far – is the James Holden remix of “The Sky Was Pink”, which was a ground-shaking banger back in 2004 and remains so to this day. But it seems to have overshadowed Fake’s own output – the original version “The Sky Was Pink” is a distant #2, and after that, there...


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With Aves de Nahá, Bosque Vacío turn from the fractured wetlands of Mexico City toward the dense cosmologies of the Lacandon jungle in Chiapas. Where 2023’s Cantera Oriente traced the unstable boundaries between quarry, reserve and megapolis — a site where nature exists in continuous dialogue with urbanism — this new work listens further back and further out...


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Shortly after leaving her orchestral career behind to pursue a solo career, Isabel Pine had a startling revelation: in order to make her music sound warm, she’d have to move into the cold.  Fables is recorded inside and outside “a ...


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