a closer listen
a bi-weekly round up of writing on experimental music
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Le Révélateur
Réka Csiszér & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh ~ Le Révélateur
Réka Csiszér (VÍZ) & Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (Jerusalem In My Heart) photo by Patrick Principe
Originally conceived as a silent visual poem by Philippe Garrel in 1968, Le Révélateur...
The Imaginations of Our Ancestors
The Imaginations of Our Ancestors ~ An Interview with Lea Bertucci
Photo by Katherine Finkelstein. Courtesy the artist.
Lea Bertucci is a mainstay of the US experimental music scene, bridging ideas from sound art into recorded music a...
A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #109
I have yet to see Chandler Levack’s Montréal indie rock romantic comedy, Mile End Kicks, but I’ve been enjoying all the takes. The very premise of the film seems designed to froth people like me into a nostalgic rage. I was a music critic,...
A CLOSER LISTEN WEEKLY #108.5
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another Mini-Review Marathons on this off week. We just did a massive marathon in early March, so let’s just call this Spring II, as our submissions queue has been overflowing lately. But first, a reminder t...
A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #108
Dear Listeners, Joseph yet again for a regular edition of the ACL newsletter. I’m finally on the other side of my deadlines, and just got home after a long weekend in Atlanta (for a baby shower that rightly went viral). I spent much of the...
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