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“Exist is a feeling”: Organizers talk about their festival after losing Odai Masri
Palestinian-global festival and music platform Exist reached London this month at Cafe OTO, the latest triumph of adventurous programming and acrobatic work across borders and international challenges. Exist has always been abound reaching beyond boundaries, organizers say. This year, they have some poignant messages about what music can do to reach beyond the boundary between life and death. And they’ve shared some crucial thoughts and music with us as they reflect on that mission.
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In “Piano,” John Object captures emotional realities of war in Ukraine
“Piano” is bookended by sketches on a partly-ruined piano in a war zone – messages over an army radio heard crackling in the background. In between, there is the warmth of a 1920s German instrument in the artist’s Kyiv flat and grandmother’s house before the war. Ukrainian artist John Object is now living mainly as PFC Timur Dzhafarov, deployed to the front. In sounds, images, and words, he has opened up about what that reality means.
Ziúr’s hard-hitting percussion, epic collaborations speak volumes in “Eyeroll”
Don’t miss this latest LP on Kampala, Uganda’s Hakuna Kulala, as Berlin-based Ziúr takes on a dream roster of international collaborators. In perpetually shifting, explosive rhythms and organic percussion, a fully-blurred hybrid of experimental jazz and club roots, it has plenty to say about the world around in its violence and chaos.
Make Noise brings Tom Erbe’s soundhack spectral ideas to a dual oscillator: Spectraphon
Peter Kirn - May 12, 2023
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Open call: Ukraine Resistance Radio, amplifying experimental sounds and music of Ukraine
Peter Kirn - March 7, 2023
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