Airwaves - Biomechanical2017 release. The late Mexican electronic musician Oscar Menzel, AKA Airwaves, only realized a small handful of recordings in his short lifetime (including one under the alias 29), but the two Airwaves discs issued back in the mid '90s remain one of the many undiscovered gems scattered across the vast graveyard of obscure, one off electronic music projects and recordings. Released during the era when musicians the world over were firing up banks of

The present album has the field to itself (for now) in attempting a complementary survey of D'Ambrosio's work as a salon musician

Ntozake (for Ntozake Shange) 2:0211

transparent and vigorous - ideal for Mendelssohn's scores

Come on Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around 18

tempo and texture between florid soloistic passages and more homophonic choral treatment

This four track collection finds each of these each of luminaries firing at full blast with the kind of heavy music that simultaneously repulses as it enraptures

the impressive Passacaglia in E major occupies a special place in Drischner's self-understanding because of his detailed comments on it and his suggestions for interpretation

and finally the codas - I don't know of anything more intoxicating than the end of the octet's first movement

based on a wondering what might be inside the huge

That's without detailing the sort of horrendous politics that makes a fresh batch of alphabet spaghetti of any of the above as they interact

"Afterglow Of Your Love" and more

The works by Clara and Robert Schumann may be seen as intentionally eloquent individual testimony to the biographical situation of their creators