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Secret Thirteen Mix 139
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with a bonus mix of Christmas Past. A dozen years ago, Justinas Mikulskis invited me to contribute to Secret Thirteen, the greatest archives of mixes anywhere on the internet, and I rose to the challenge and prod...
A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #121
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another regular edition of the ACL newsletter.
I’ve been doing a bunch of interviews again lately. Big Ears got me back in the habit, I guess, although sharing the long-missing Episode 30 back in February...
Ama Lel Hawa / أَما لِلهَوى
Emna Mâaref ~ Ama Lel Hawa / أَما لِلهَوى
The title of Emna Mâaref‘s first solo full-length comes from a verse by the tenth-century Arab poet Abu Firas al-Hamdani, roughly asking, “Has longing no hold over you?” Yet hawa encompasses love...
A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #120
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another regular edition of the ACL newsletter.
If you didn’t catch my piece last week on Montreal Tape Run, check it out. In the next couple days I’ve got an essay on producer albums coming soon, inspired...
Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III
Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker ~ Songs for Sad Poets Vol. III
“There are black silences, like thunderclouds, that burst into flashes of music,” H. G. Wells writes in Select Conversations with an Uncle. The phrase finds an almost literal...
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dedicated to instrumental and experimental music. [email protected] www.acloserlisten.com
co-founder of A Closer Listen, producer of the Sound Propositions podcast, musical compositions and sound art projects have been published by international labels, broadcast on radio, and presented in festivals, galleries, and museums
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