Franco Battiato is a balera singer turned avant-garde composer, and that’s precisely where the strength of his music lies. The Italian term balera doesn’t have a perfect equivalent in English: think of an unpretentious, all-ages working-class…
Giusto Pio’s Motore Immobile began to gain wider recognition when Alan Licht included it in the third instalment of his Minimalist Lists in 2007. Originally released in 1979 and reissued by Soave only in 2017, the…
On a trip to Ohio in August 1949, Barnett Newman had the chance to visit the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in the southwest of the state. Located along the Ohio River, these monumental earthen mounds served as…