Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Olivia Block

  Dissolution

  PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2016

  Olivia Block's new release is comprised of two long tracks involving found sounds, instruments, microcassettes and radio signals, and, acco...

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  Godspeed You! Black Emperor

  Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Godspeed's taste for pageantry has not left them, though they have, on this LP, left some of the spectacle behind. None of the spoken word...

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  Matana Roberts

  Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  This release is the third in Matana Roberts' Coin Coin series, which explores her African American history through words and music and exte...

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  Matana Roberts

  Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  To say that Matana Robert's Coin Coin project is sprawling and ambitious would be an understatement, as she seeks to create musical genealo...

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  Egyptrixx / Dun Dun Band / deenzi

  The Music Gallery, Toronto ON, October 13

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2016

  The Music Gallery's annual X-Avant festival opened with a bang last night (October 13). The first set featured the piano/flute/electronic d...

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  Lee "Scratch" Perry

  Must Be Free

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2016

  Lee Perry's monolithic stance in the world of music is unassailable. Simply put, the man is one of the authors of dub and has traversed not...

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  Ali Berkok

  Never Get Lost For Long

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

  Solo works of any kind give great insight into the character of an artist: the way he or she thinks, how the thought processes play out in...

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  Kate Carr

  It Was A Time of Laboured Metaphors

  PUBLISHED Apr 29, 2016

  This is an album of soundscape and ambience, with individual spheres and staging events within each. Carr's attention to detail is apparent...