#508

John Cage / Lowell Cross / Toshi Ichiyanagi / David Tudor - Appearance / Music for Solo Performer: Compositions by Toshi Ichiyanagi & Alvin Lucier (Omega Point / EM Records)

Those electronic interventions now sound distinctly of their time, although that technological rawness is arguably at the core of this music's appeal. — Julian Cowley

#507

Werner Durand & John Krausbauer - Black Seraphim (Moving Furniture)

The experience of listening is both a vibrantly physical sensation and an imaginary rite of passage towards some altered state, like being drawn through a tunnel hollowed out within an otherwise solid bed of sound. — Julian Cowley

#506

Mark Vernon - Sounds of the Modern Hospital (Death is Not the End)

Vernon's dark revelation is that our hospitals are now hives of robots, from the automated vehicle muttering garbled commands as it shunts dirty linen to the frantic OPEX machine that sorts the ward's mail. — Rob Turner

#505

Tyshawn Sorey - Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)

[Sorey] adapts the instrumentation for Feldman's Rothko Chapel (viola, celesta, percussion and voices), adding a piano alongside the celesta and a bass-baritone solo. — Kurt Gottschalk