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guest writer: marshall gu on leo ornstein
a composer who walked away from fame in the 1920s--but kept composing for another sixty years
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October 2020

so you wanna get into... aki onda
a guide to his radio and cassette works + collaborations
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September 2020

so you wanna get into... zeena parkins
a primer featuring 12 of the harpist's albums plus an "odds and ends" recommendation
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August 2020

guest writer: sam tornow on mark mothersbaugh
“We’re through being cool. Eliminate the ninnies and the twits.” - Devo
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so you wanna get into... éric la casa
"I am very active when I record and so am constantly listening to all sounds as part of a music in motion... a living music."
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label primer: five from superpang
plus a new series "odds and ends"
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so you wanna get into... matmos
"It felt wrong to contribute to the mountain of spurious listicles that our online music culture now gorges upon" -Drew Daniel
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July 2020

when and where: room 13, maida vale studios, 1958
"This programme is an experiment. An exploration. It's been put together with enormous enthusiasm and equipment designed for other purposes." -Donald…
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so you wanna get into... kate carr
Plus a brief exposition of the "sound essay"
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label primer: rrrecycled music
selections from rrron lessard's rrrecords' rrrecycled music series
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so you wanna get into... luke stewart
"[Improvisation is] the only approach to music that provides an opportunity for people to experience something the world has never heard."
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June 2020

reading recs #3: horne, ghansah, sanneh, gaillot
"In case a weapon was not nearby, some musicians also developed a taste for boxing." -Gerald Horne on jazz
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