In a wake-up call to his fellow downtown musicians published in EAR Magazine in 1978, No Wave composer Rhys Chatham weighed in on the state of what he dubbed post ‘60s traditionalist music: In the past 10 years or so…
Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo [The Wet Meadows Of Mount Analogue] by Lovisoni & Messina is the record that inspired me to start Mediterranean Minimalism. For me, minimalism a là Mediterranea describes a gentler version of American repetitive music, less…
Virtually unknown outside of Italy and a small circle of avant-garde aficionados, violinist and composer Giusto Pio revolutionised Italian pop together with Franco Battiato and wrote beautiful pages of experimental music in his solo works, from his essential take on…