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dedicated to instrumental and experimental music. info at acloserlisten dot com // Sound Propositions podcast // *Press A* https://acloserlisten.com/ https://acloserlisten.substack.com (account managed by @josephsannicandro.bsky.social)

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A CLOSER LISTEN@acloserlisten.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Radio from CAMP - residential arts and music courses high in the French Pyrenees, with Chris Watson, Gavin Bryars, Laraaji, Jozef van Wissem and others

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CAMP Radio@campradio.bsky.social · 4d ago

6-7pm: A Closer Listen A live tape mix inspired by the latest edition of Out of the Box. Writing about Deep Magic caused me to pull out a bunch of tapes from that era. @acloserlisten.bsky.social | acloserlisten.com #Experimental #SoundScapes #Drone #Ambient #FieldRecordings *⏰️CEST

Two vintage cassette-deck recorders — beige on the left and yellow-gold on the right — sit side-by-side on a desk with rows of audio cassettes stacked on top and connected cables, suggesting a retro audio archive or recording/playback station.
Avant Music News@avantmusicnews.bsky.social · last wk.

AMN Reviews: M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) – M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 (1982/2026; Eighth Tower Records) The Maurizio Bianchi reissue project on Eighth Tower Records continues with this edition of M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982, remastered and restored by Raffaele Pezzella. Like many other Bianchi releases from the…

AMN Reviews: M.B. (Maurizio Bianchi) – M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982 (1982/2026; Eighth Tower Records)

The Maurizio Bianchi reissue project on Eighth Tower Records continues with this edition of M.U.U.N.H. 31.04.1982, remastered and restored by Raffaele Pezzella. Like many other Bianchi releases from the early 1980s, the post-industrial sounds on this album benefit from generous use of loops and echoes. Across two 31-minute tracks, Bianchi creates an abstract sound world in which machine noises pulse and oscillate.

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Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 3w ago

An unearthly gorgeous performance here. I went to the funeral of a Thai composer in Bangkok last week. 100 of the composer’s students (!) played the Thai khim along with a recording of their teacher playing over the PA. The overtones were nuts. Video actually caught the sound pretty good.

A CLOSER LISTEN@acloserlisten.bsky.social · 3w ago

As I wrote a couple months ago, “Vertical London (New Year’s Day), is something of an inversion, tracing instead a vertical trajectory, moving 20 meters below sea level to 240 meters above on one of the coldest and shortest of days.”

Lars Gotrich@totalvibration.bsky.social · 3w ago

#newmusicfriday Kate Carr, Vertical London A recommendation: Listen to these gorgeously captured and thoughtfully processed field recordings of London while doing some mundane task. A celestial travelogue of the spaces you've ignored or never known. katecarr.bandcamp.com/album/vertic...

A CLOSER LISTEN@acloserlisten.bsky.social · 3w ago

Roberto Bolaño died 23 years ago today. I've been re-reading his poems, short stories, and novels this year, for whatever reason, and so have been thinking about his life and work quite a bit. I've yet to re-read the Last Interview, but here's a nice review. biblioklept.org/2009/12/21/r...

Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview

I hate reviews that hem and haw too much over context, but I feel that a proper review of Roberto Bolaño: The Last Interview has to begin with some background information. But because I love you, g…

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A CLOSER LISTEN@acloserlisten.bsky.social · 3w ago

As with many things, Canada appears more humane on the surface than the US but in practice the system is still exploitative. rabble.ca/columnists/g...

Good enough to work, good enough to stay

The case for regularizing status for all Canada’s temporary migrant workers. Those who find temporary work often live in precariously

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LOT'S WIFE, THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH, PhD@yiff.com · 3w ago

I sold laptops to them a few times. it's a kind of crap deal but they accrue enough "canadian work experience" after a few seasons to get provincial nominee PR for farm startups, or points PR if they have any degree or fluent french. so they know the score and I can buy $5 a head organic lettuce

Fonodroom@fonodroom.bsky.social · 3w ago

anthéne 'Air Signs' – review by @acloserlisten.bsky.social "We are reminded that the life of a bird isn’t all peaceful gliding. Back from overhead flight paths and clifftop nests, we alight on the windowsill with a new perspective." acloserlisten.com/2026/07/11/a... @polarseas.bsky.social

anthéne ~ Air Signs

Inspired by a bird landing on a city windowsill, Air Signs by anthéne looks to the skies for meaning or assurance. We don’t find a feathery, avian energy here. Instead, this is an airborne album of…

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The Tonearm@thetonearm.com · 4w ago

"If you happened to be gazing idly from a window of New York City’s J train crossing the East River on the Williamsburg Bridge, most days between the summer of 1959 and the autumn of 1961, you might have glimpsed a lone saxophonist huddled into a cranny of the gigantic steel skeleton …"

‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60

It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play

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Plenty Wenlock@plentywenlock.bsky.social · 4w ago

We've received this wonderful review of Sign-Off Music for U.S. Television Stations by Speed of Life by Richard at @acloserlisten.bsky.social. acloserlisten.com/2026/07/04/s... Thanks as ever to Richard and his team.

Speed of Life ~ Sign-Off Music for U.S. Television Stations

Those of a certain age remember when television stations used to sign off for the night.  A cheerful TV announcer would share the station identification and a pleasant goodbye, music would play (mo…

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