Jason McNiff - April Cruel - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Barbarossa, the nom de plume of Londoner James Mathe, follows up his 2013 album Bloodlines with Imager, out May 19th in North America on Memphis Industries. Imager is a cerebral, slow-burning album, tinged with melancholy and an alluring humanism. Mathe's musical journey started with folk-tinged balladry that saw him become part Fence Collective, and subsequently a band member for the likes of Jose Gonzalez, Johnny Flynn and Junip. With Bloodlines, however, Mathe started to infuse his song writing with electronic flourishes, and now with Imager, he has completed his transformation into a fully fledged electronic soul pioneer. Imager, then, is the sound of Barbarossa stepping out of the shadows and into the limelight as a talent to be reckoned with in his own right, questioning his surroundings, his own creativity and coming up with answers that are compelling, affecting and thoughtful.

Binker & Moses - Alive In The East [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/22/2018

Celebrating the of Subject, Jason Eckardt's upcoming record on Tzadik, the JACK Quartet, ICE, and soloists Tony Arnold, soprano; Jay Campbell, 'cello; and Jordan Dodson, guitar will perform works off the new record as well as the world premiere of John Zorn's InchAutumn RhythmInch along with his string quartet InchNecronomicon.Inch JACK will also perform Eckardt's InchSubject,Inch a work that confronts Inchenhanced interrogationInch techniques using sound and light, including a complex lighting design conceived by the composer and fully realized for the first time in this performance. SUBJECT Beginning in the 1950s, the CIA became very interested in psychological research being conducted on the effects of sensory deprivation on humans. The research, that suggested rapid regression in those tested, provided a framework for sections of what would later be known as the KUBARK manual, the first in a series of US-government documents that provided techniques for interrogating detainees. Though the idea of sound as a weapon is at least as old as the account of Joshua's siege of Jericho, it was only recently deemed Inchinhuman and degradingInch for the purposes of interrogation by the European Court of Human Rights in the 1978 case InchIreland v. The United Kingdom.Inch