Music
Go support these Lebanese releases on Bandcamp
In the face of darkness and horrors, we have to keep supporting music. It’s a reminder of the lives we’re fighting for — and a language for when even our mother tongue fails us. As Lebanon has experienced a Hell in 10 days, here is some music to last beyond the present reality.
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Rock, electroacoustic, and traditional Iranian mix in Behrouz Pashaei LP
Fusions too often prove superficial or homogenize traditional elements into an empty blur. Not so in the new outing from Behrouz Pashaei, who draws deep from the well of his exceptional traditional Iranian musicianship, interweaving it into a new, emotional electroacoustic direction on Encounter.
Peter Kirn - August 30, 2024
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Free, ultra-deep spectral synth from Steinberg: X-Stream
Here’s still more experimental sound and cinematic soundscape creation for free. X-Stream is a new free monophonic spectral instrument from Steinberg, complete with support for manipulating your own samples.
Peter Kirn - July 4, 2024
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Extreme time stretching, spectral shaping: Sloom and instant ambient
Peter Kirn - June 28, 2024
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Landscape’s Ferrous, an electro-mechanical resonator for strings
Peter Kirn - May 16, 2024
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Liquid Sky d-vices V4CO & GLITHc: deep, glitchy, bendable wavetables
Peter Kirn - March 25, 2024
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