South Korean composer and pianist Taehyung Kim, who releases music as TK, offers two sides of the coin on his double A-side single Light & Dark, two subdued neo-classical pieces that use carefully applied samples of strings.
His gentle touch sits well within the Romantic tradition, with more contempary flourishes lift it from the safety (and constraints) of New Age. Recommended if you like Zbigniew Preisner.
Watch the full show by Australian rock singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels on October 9.
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You try to improvise in a compositional manner. You don't just do some stupid lick you've been practicing, scale form exercises or something.
Terry Bozzio
Californian quartet Scaled Alps are all over the place on their Let the Alpine Play album, switching between goth, psychedelic, rock, funk, rap and jazz without missing a beat. They tried to capture Los Angeles by night, where the promise of sex, looking for a high and the danger of violence are caught up in a never-ending tug of war. The overall sound is a bit muffled - especially the vocals - as if the band were recording the songs in a safe spot, hiding from the rage outside.
It is a sonic portrait of the seedy side of the City of Angels (or any big city for that matter). The band obviously have a love-hate relationship with their place of residency. Pointing out the gems lying in the dirt gets equal billing with the horrors. Sunny-side up real estate brokers and soccer moms will hate it, but fans of bands like Bauhaus and Nick Cave an the Bad Seeds can pick it up without blinking an eye.
Manchester slacker garage rockers Wyatt wrote their debut single Morning shortly after an amp broke down during a show. It made them realise that such a thing isn't that big of a thing to worry about, because shit happens. If anything, they got a nice melancholic tune with a hint of optimism out of it.
Morning is released via Heist or Hit, available on all the usual digital outlets. The video was directed by Seth Lloyd.
