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Erik Hall: Multitracking The Minimalist Aesthetic

by Lawrence Peryer
March 7, 2026

Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on musician and composer Erik Hall.Based in Michigan, Erik Hall has spent the last five years doing something that sounds simple but definitely is not: recording landmark works of contemporary classical music entirely on his own.Erik's 2020 solo reconstruction of Steve Reich's “Music for 18 Musicians" won ...

Roger Clark Miller: Eight Dream Interpretations for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble

by Mark Sullivan
November 12, 2022

Roger Clark Miller (who has simply been “Roger Miler" on many prior recordings) has a hell of a resume. He is best known for his guitar-playing in the experimental rock band Mission of Burma, which he co-founded in 1979. But he has also made piano-based music with Maximum Electric Piano, The Binary System and Birdsongs of ...

Moers Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
June 22, 2021

Moers Festival Eventhalle/Rodelberg Moers, Germany May 21-24 2021 Just a few days before the start of this 50th anniversary festival, the local governmental authorities suddenly switched their virus regulations, allowing a crowd of 500 to attend each evening's outdoor park gig on the Rodelberg stage. During the daytimes, ...

Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar

by John Ephland
January 28, 2019

A guitar lover's delight, the Swiss Stephan Thelen's Fractal Guitar reeks of the many splendid effects the instrument can bellow, belch, intimate, cry out and sing. And all within the narrow yet liberating, pattern-based corridors Thelen's ofttimes arhythmic funkfest conjures. With nods to David Torn, Robert Fripp, Glenn Branca and even Nik Bartsch, the aesthetic creates ...

Bush Tetras' Unreleased Album Sees November 13 Release

October 10, 2012

The Bush Tetras' unreleased album, Happy, will finally see a release some fifteen years after it was recorded and mastered, with ROIR releasing the 12-song album on November 13. Happy was produced by Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Teenage Fanclub, Screaming Trees, The Posies) and recorded in 1998 at Shelter Studios New York. The album was initially ...