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Glenn Dickson & Bob Familiar: The Clarinet In The Machine

by Lawrence Peryer
July 26, 2025

Today, the Spotlight shines on clarinetist Glenn Dickson and electronic musician Bob Familiar.When a cutting-edge klezmer artist meets a former rock synthesist, you might expect creative tension. Instead, Glenn and Bob found something else entirely--a shared language that turns clarinet and electronics into the most unlikely yet inspired pairings.Their new album All the Light of Our Sphere (Sounds Familiar), layers acoustic clarinet with synthesizers and loop devices to create what they describe as orchestral ambient music. ...

Album Review

Dickson & Familiar: All the Light of Our Sphere

Read "All the Light of Our Sphere" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
July 15, 2025

Una musica asettica, sufficientemente plastificata, scarsamente comunicativa, salvata solo parzialmente dal girovagare imperterrito del clarinetto di Glenn Dickson, è quanto ci offre questo album in duo fra il succitato e Bob Familiar, il primo proveniente dal klezmer, il secondo decisamente più incline a un rock evidentemente depurato di ogni eccesso o turgore. L'incedere è largo, quieto, incruento, ma anche piuttosto sonnolento, in quel suo deambulare sempre attorno a situazioni e temperature decisamente univoche, quindi largamente monocordi, oltre che ...

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Solo Flights: Glenn Dickson and Joe Fielder

by Jerome Wilson
November 15, 2022

These are solo recordings by two musicians who can create dense forests of sound with only one instrument. one with the help of electronics and the other just using his lips, breath and tongue. Glenn Dickson Wider Than The Sky Self-Produced 2022 Glenn Dickson is a klezmer clarinetist who has been experimenting with electronic effects since the early 2000s. He produced all the sounds on this album in real time using loops and ...