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Jan Peter Schwalm: How We Fall

Read "How We Fall" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
July 6, 2018

Jan Peter Schwalm is a German composer and music producer, best known for his collaborations with ambient music pioneer Brian Eno, including the album Drawn From Life (Opal, 2001). Since 2006 Schwalm has been a regular guest at Norway's Punktfestival, distinguishing himself as a live remixer. He has also developed a long- term partnership with Norwegian experimental guitarist Eivind Aarset and British bassist Tim Harries, both of whom appear on this album on several tracks each, together or individually.

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J. Peter Schwalm: The Beauty of Disaster

Read "The Beauty of Disaster" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
March 22, 2016

"Ambient Music." Now that is a creatively coiffured pant load of a genre designation. An outgrowth of “New Age?" The bastard child of Minimalism? Radio personality Stephen Hill's cottage industry? Well, in a word, “yes," all of these things. The evolution of music is rapidly hurling toward a time when genre will mean nothing and no longer be useful in describing the music. A new paradigm will have to be adopted to make sense. So words like “jazz," “New Age," ...