Obviously I lovelovelove Alva Noto. And I lapped up the first three volumes of the Xerrox series. In particular, I raved about the third installment, and I consider Xerrox Isola to be eight minutes of music that are about as close to perfection as any I’ve heard. Four summers ago, I very much enjoyed number […]
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Alva Noto: Unieqav (2LP, Noton, March 2018)
Ah, lovely Alva Noto. This record is a follow-up to 2008’s Unitxt and 2011’s Univrs and very much a continuation of those works, although with elements of the Xerrox sequence in there too — it’s considerably less surprising than Glass, his latest collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto. There are those skittering glitchy clicky beats that I just love, there are those […]
You’ll think I’m silly, but I almost didn’t want to listen this: I love Alva Noto, I love Ryuichi Sakamoto, I love Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sakamoto’s latest album was almost heartbreakingly perfect, and I didn’t want to be disappointed. Well, I’m glad I got over myself, because this is a magical and wondrous […]
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