Crucial Listening #166: Miki Yui
Small music, the lazy way of listening, the motor of collaboration. The Tokyo-born, Düsseldorf-based musician discusses three important albums.
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Crucial Listening #165: Gábor Lázár
No kick drum, three sounds and humour, the power of multidirectional expression. The Hungarian electronic producer discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #164: Wendy Eisenberg
Perfect trumpet voice, music as prayer, Ben Monder's right hand. The improviser and songwriter discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #163: Annie Aries
Noisy artefact discovery, spilling soft toys at the parade, heartbroken AI minds. The Swiss-Philippine composer and musician discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #162: Carlos Giffoni
IBM 7090 hypnosis, black jeans on the beach, music for crying and driving. The Venezuelan experimental musician and writer discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #161: Mattin
Isolation and electroacoustics, listening and openness, putting rock into the coffin. The artist, musician and theorist discusses three important albums.
Crucial Listening #160: Brian Cook (Sumac, Russian Circles, Botch)
Proto-disco black hole disintegration, leaving in the flubs, "Shake Your Hips" at number 3. The American bassist discusses three important albums.