Pop
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Douglas Quin Pantanal Dawn
In his search for interesting sounds, Douglas Quin found that dawn was the best opportunity to capture the sonic richness of the Pantanal. Herons, waders, storks and smaller birds are the musicians who play in the three quarters of an hour Pantanal Dawn spinning a web of cooing, croaking and melodic whistling sounds. Read the whole review.
Classic
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Dudok Quartet What Remains
The new album What Remains of the Dudok Quartet spans almost a thousand years of music history. Connecting long historical lines is a trademark of the quartet. With Roukens’ What Remains – written for the Dudok – the quartet hits the mark, a beautiful piece in which the finite and the infinite meet and time does not seem to be a linear given. Read the whole review.
Rock
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Voice of Bacerot Retas
Many of the experiences of the band members of Voice of Baceprot are recognizable for every metalhead: their parents think it’s noise, others even call it devil worship. But the three young women of this band do not come from an ‘ordinary’ conservative environment, but from Garut in West Java. Now there is debut album Retas, full of energetic rock, metal and rap, in the form of a middle finger to anyone who tries to pigeonhole them. Read the whole review.
Dance
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Eboman Hold Your Horses
Almost thirty years after his first issues, Eboman’s appears Hold Your Horses. he makes instrumental beats from sampled sounds – coughing, sheep bleating – on hardcore rhythm, on jungle rhythm, on breakbeat. It sounds ingenious. Restless and lavish, but the rough and rather gritty sounding songs are too full to be really exciting. Read the whole review.
Classic
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Percussion The Hague Vitreous body
Slagwerk Den Haag and the Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara honored Philip Glass on his eightieth birthday with a program that has now been released on CD. Fiumara adapted two early Glass classics for percussion ensemble and composed the six-part cycle Vitreous body. Nothing monochromatic: the sound diversity of the ensemble does both Glass pieces well and forms an attraction of the album, which fascinates from start to finish. Read the whole review.
hip hop
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J Hus Beautiful And Brutal Yard
The only downside to the first few tracks on rapper J Hus’ new album is Drake’s sadly bad autotune-licked-to-die verse on ‘Who Told You?’. Somehow that works for J Hus: if you are better than him on a track with the most popular rapper in the world, your career can’t go wrong with this one. Unfortunately, the second half of the album sounds a lot less, and that is mainly due to boring and frankly terrifying lyrics like Murder gives me a boner. Read the whole review.
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