Jazz Articles about Mira Benjamin

About Mira Benjamin

Album Review

Apartment House: John Cage Number Pieces

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by John Eyles
September 27, 2021

Even though it is only based on two of the label's previous releases—Wandelweiser und so weiter (2012) and Morton Feldman Piano (2019)— the reputation of Another Timbre box sets is enviably high. The music they contain, their sound quality, information, artwork and packaging all contribute to the fact that these albums are highly rated and sell like hot cakes. Like its predecessors, John Cage Number Pieces does not cast its net too wide or spread itself too thin. As its ...

Album Review

Jim O’Rourke: Best that you do this for me

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by John Eyles
March 2, 2021

Yes, that is the same Jim O'Rourke who was once a member of Sonic Youth, and was responsible for the awesome Nic Roeg tetralogy of albums on Drag City, among other milestones. One such achievement was that O'Rourke played for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for four years; as luck would have it, Apartment House founder and cellist Anton Lukoszevieze also performed with the company towards the end of their time, which brought him into contact with O'Rourke's music and, ...