Category Archives: Music

Miho Hazama, Fahmi Mursyid & Yuko Araki, Alexander Hawkins, Arcadia Trio, RSLG Quartet, and Anna Webber

by Dæv Tremblay

Miho Hazama – Dancer in Nowhere (Sunnyside Records)

Japanese composer Miho Hazama offers us a delightful collection of pieces on her latest album, Dancer in Nowhere. Played by the versatile and labile M Unit collective, here seventeen strong, the big band feeling is unmistakable. Miho’s compositions are modern and fresh, offering many a pleasant surprise, some of which can be heard in the preview track, “Today, Not Today”. In short, if you like what you hear, there is much, much more lying beyond the preview.

Fahmi Mursyid & Yoku Araki – Akur (Insitu Recordings)

Akur is the latest release … Read more

Marathon Devlog 1: Presets

by Dæv Tremblay

[Github Link]

I never thought I’d write a devlog someday. I feel like dishonouring the “developer” title, but for lack of a better word, I’ll use it. I’ve already announced you I began working on a Python program that could give you a MIDI that includes microrhythms. For the uninitiated, think of microrhythms, or xenorhythms, as “beats between the beats” that are practically unwritable in Western music’s notation system. However, these rhythms are quite prevalent in many different musical cultures, such as Gnawa and Brazilian Samba, and even within the fortress of Western music thanks to the Viennese Waltz.

When … Read more

Elder Ones, Tumi Árnason & Magnús Trygvason Eliassen, Aidan Baker, Faith Coloccia & Jon Mueller, Swim Team, Jitters, and Hippie Diktat

by Dæv Tremblay

Elder Ones – From Untruth (Northern Spy)

Amirth Kidambi’s avant-garde jazz ensemble Elder Ones prepared a strong sophomore to their 2016 Holy Science. From Untruth departs from the universalist theology of its predecessor and strikes in the heart of today’s issues: political division, class war, colonialism, and disinformation, while still maintaining its core musical aspects: improvisation, experimentation, and the fusion of musical traditions into a new, different entity, with the use of contemporary classical music, free jazz, and classical Indian music, for example. The album is meditative, at times shocking, and quite transcendental throughout. It comes out in late … Read more

Advanced Mathematics: Addendum on Microrhythms

by Dæv Tremblay

Above is a composition from me by the name “Compromise”. Don’t critique it too harshly, it’s first and foremost there to serve as a demonstration of what Marathon can achieve. What is Marathon? Just give me a minute, and all will be clear.

Microrhythm: A Reintroduction

If you want the full read, click here to read the full episode on microrhythms.

In a nutshell, microrhythm can be seen as “the rhythm in-between” or a “compromise”; hence the song title. According to Malcolm Braff’s vision, you can achieve a microrhythm by finding a middle ground between two conflicting rhythmic patterns. … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

Saturday, 16 February

Diarrheal Blast – Diarrheal Blast (noise metal)

Bologna, Italy
On Turgid Animal Records

Read our review.

Soliloque – Window [EP] (nu-prog)

Québec City, Québec

Winterblind – Effigy [EP] (progressive black metal)

Belgium

Sunday, 17

Gestalt – Music by Gestalt (jazz fusion)

Los Angeles, California
On Zero System Immersive Music

Second Grade Knife Fight – Pg. 3 [EP] (grindcore)

Kentucky

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