Featuring photographer Traianos Pakioufakis LP cover works

Perfectly still, and at once arresting is the silence that resonates throughout the work of Traianos Pakioufakis.
Along various collaborations across art, music and fashion, Pakioufakis has created a series of LP sleeves for an array of artists including The Necks, Keiji Haino, Jim o Rourke, Oren Ambarchi, Andrew Pekler, Bill Kouligas and Merzbow.

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The Necks – OPEN (2013)

Following on from their two track LP release, Mindset (2011), Open sees legendary artists-in-resonance The Necks return to the territory they are best known for, a single piece running for over an hour.
True to its title, Open possesses a stillness, drawing the listener into a spacious soundworld.

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New Music Jazz Magazine for Creative Music in Athens

The Jazz Fanzine NEW MUSIC is a new entry in the Athenian scene that supports creative and contemporary music.
NewMusic magazine spoke to Antony Braxton on November 13, 2022 when he performed at Barbican with his New Acoustic Quartet, featuring American bassist Carl Testa, Cologne based Brazilian drummer, Mariá Portugal and Portuguese trumpeter Susana Santos Silva. 

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Meikyoku Kissa Lion – Tokyo’s Baroque cinema of sound

Translated as ‘classical masterpiece café’, Meikyoku Kissa’s aesthetic is reflected in the interior, with 3-metre-high custom-made speakers embedded into the back wall, like a church pipe organ. They were hand-crafted by local carpenters in 1950, to the then owner’s personal specifications.

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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra

Lately The New York Times has asked jazz musicians, writers and scholars to share the favorites that would make a friend fall in love with Duke Ellington, Alice Coltrane, Ornette Coleman and jazz vocals. Now putting the spotlight on Sun Ra, the experimental pianist, organist and bandleader whose idiosyncratic blend of jazz imagined life on other planets.

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Homage To Pharoah Sanders

Two hours paying tribute to the great Pharoah Sanders who recently departed this planet, leaving behind him a treasure of work that not only immensely influenced jazz music but also taught his peers and the future generations the simple notions of love, peace, consciousness and spirituality.
Spirits don’t die. Rest in Power.

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Chicago OPTION Series

OPTION is an ongoing music salon curated by Chicago musicians Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Ken Vandermark. Its programming explores contemporary perspectives on improvisation and composition in a ‘salon’ format, enabling local, national, and international artists to publicly discuss their practice and ideas as well as perform.

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IANNIS XENAKIS: SONIC ODYSSEYS @EMST

In the 1950s, Xenakis broke the boundaries of contemporary music and devised a genre of music that is entirely unique. EMΣΤ is pleased to present the first major comprehensive exhibition in Greece of Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001).

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A manifesto by Susan Abulhawa

I stumbled upon this manifesto on WePresent, a list of 10 rules for living by Susan Abulhawa, writer, activist and founder of Playgrounds for Palestine. The illustration is by Chantal Jahchan.

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Kay Suzuki on Cashmere Radio

Time Capsule Label mastermind, Kay Suzuki, takes us on a journey through interstellar meditations, fusion jazz, groovy bass lines, western strings gone East, Wayne Shorter gone dub.

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Sun Ra Arrival Day Mix

This is two hour Sun Ra Arrival Day broadcast on May 22 to celebrate the 109th anniversary of his arrival from planet Saturn (1914–2023),  highlighting his ultra-creative musical journey centred on space travel as a form of Black liberation.

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Broken Music Vol. 2

70 Years of Records and Sound Works by Artists
Vinyl records: Sound pressed onto a black plastic disk
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

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Scenius, or Communal Genius

The geography of scenius is nurtured by several factors:

Rapid exchange of tools and techniques – As soon as something is invented, it is flaunted and then shared. Ideas flow quickly because they are flowing inside a common language and sensibility.

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