Tag: Alan Lomax

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For her first release on vinyl, the acclaimed composer Cassandra Miller coils and contorts two quite disparate pieces of music. The first is a song by an anonymous Sicilian cart driver, recorded by the ethnologists Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella sometime in the mid-fifties, and the second is the famous third movement of Beethoven's late string quartet in A...

Oneohtrix Point Never - 'Sticky Drama' On 13 November Oneohtrix Point Never released Garden of Delete, his seventh studio album and the second to come out on Warp, having set the scene over preceding months courtesy of an interview with a humanoid alien named Ezra, backdated blog posts narrating a musical coming-of-age through the apocryphal 'hypergrunge' band Kaos Edge, and teasers posted -...

On this day in 1977, the Voyager 2 space probe was launched by NASA. It was developed as part of the Voyager program, which saw two identical probes sent to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space. The unmanned crafts - each weighing 721.9 kg at launch, with a power of 420 watts, and communicating by means of...