Albums of the Week

Arp — The Enormous Room
Christina Vantzou —
Observations, edits, a cure for restlessness
Dania — 
arête
SUSS & Andrew Tuttle —
Rising

"The Longform Editions label is an embarrassment of riches — an embarrassment, at least, in that they are so prolific that I rarely manage to absorb a full set of their releases before a new crop of four drops. This month's are particularly strong.

"In The Enormous Room, Alexis Georgopoulos — aka Arp, who changes styles often but does great work in all of them — returns to his most minimalist tendencies.

He began the piece as a simple piano improvisation as a reaction to a much more electronic production, then fleshed it out with wordless voices (cf. Laurie Anderson's breathy syllables at the beginning of "O Superman") and skeletal strings.

He writes of pursuing a piece "that would hover in that liminal space between dreamstate and lucid consciousness. At times, I felt I was outside at dusk, under that vivid deep blue that happens just before the stars come out. Having looped his piece in half-sleep of an early-morning flight, I can testify to his success."

— Philip Sherburne / FUTURISM RESTATED

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