If this live set by the Jeff Parker ETA IVtet was an EP, it’d be one of my favorite releases thus far this year. And if you’d told me any of the other players was actually the leader, I’d have believed it.

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"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

"We lived on Dalston Lane above the noodle shop where infamously Throbbing Gristle had the black bean rice one night. We would see Gilbert and George nightly from the window"

‘Gilbert and George’ – from Rhinestones, 2021 - The Strange World Of… #HTRK

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"We were really into Einstürzende Neubauten, two-note melodies like Ligeti’s pieces in the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack - seeing how minimalism might translate to rock context."

‘HA’ – from Marry Me Tonight, 2009 - The Strange World Of… #HTRK

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Breaking the cycles of linear time and seeping through the folds of memory, Nicolas Jaar's Piedras I and II" is a challenging, multilayered work created over nearly five years, from 2019 to 2023. We caught up with the Palestinian-Chilean-American artist to discuss it.