PAULINE OLIVEROS レコード& CD

Review: Pauline Oliveros' approach to experimental music-making has been described by many as 'egalitarian', ensuring that every aspect of the music was accessibly playable by an ensemble of artists, with the idea that the pieces remain as interactive as possible. The Well & The Gentle is testament to this approach, collecting unusual and oftentimes naive motifs and riffs for a honking, almost uncouth, yet almost undeniably brilliant body of long-form pieces. Mass-communal inclusion is the aim of the game here, and we can really hear it this album's the quivering, chamber-reverbed orange glow.

Review: Pauline Oliveros' Accordion & Voice album was originally released in 1982. It has not been available on wax since then but now it is but only in very limited quantities of 200. Oliveros lived in Kingston New York and was an electronic music pioneer, accordionist, composer and educator who wrote her music in a meditative way. That works both ways intuit it was meditative for her to write and for us to listen. It resulted in this most unique record which was her first as a soloist. Says the artist of its inspiration, "I followed the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain - the changing colours of the season, the breezes and winds blowing through the grasses and trees."

Review: Pauline Oliveros might be the very reason why you're still listening to electronics on cassette in 2018. The American singer, composer and author began to experiment way back in the 1960s and, until her death in 2016, she had not stopped doing so. Belgium's Sub Rosa have decided to put together a little collection of her most daring work between the years 1959-1966 a period when the artist was clearly on an exploratory tip. It's incredible to hear how little others have done to take this even further; Oliveros' style was already futureproof back then, and we hear little else that goes much further than this in terms of freedom and vision. If you're fans of 'ambient' or 'drone' then look no further than this.