#155: Adam Wiltzie

05/18/24 • 69 min

Obstetric ambient, sullen atmospheres, episodic engulfment. The classical ambient composer discusses three important albums.

Adam's picks:

Environments (Irv Teibel) – Environments 2
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
Main – Hz

Adam's new album, Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal, is out now on Kranky. Check it out on his Bandcamp. Adam's website is here.

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Obstetric ambient, sullen atmospheres, episodic engulfment. The classical ambient composer discusses three important albums.

Adam's picks:

Environments (Irv Teibel) – Environments 2
Talk Talk – Spirit Of Eden
Main – Hz

Adam's new album, Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal, is out now on Kranky. Check it out on his Bandcamp. Adam's website is here.

Donate to Crucial Listening on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/cruciallistening

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#154: Kenneth Kirschner

Train breakdown Feldman epiphanies, radical flatness in the primeval forest, the Gary Numan barracks theft. The New York-based composer discusses three important albums.

Kenneth's picks:

Gary Numan – The Pleasure Principle
Morton Feldman (Kronos Quartet with Aki Takahashi) – Piano And String Quartet
Glenn Gould – Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1955)

Kenneth's new album, Three Cellos, is the first instalment in Greyfade's FOLIO series: a hardcover book and a high resolution download. Check it out here or over on Bandcamp. Kenneth's website is over here.

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