Ben Harper
@cookylamoo.bsky.social
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I make Unpopular Music, occasionally mistaken for art.
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/
"Highly sensitive to the delicate environment each piece creates, while being confident enough to speak out when needed." Listening to Magnus Granberg.
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Granberg, Granberg and Granberg
Magnus Granberg: The Willow Bends And So Do I
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/11/granberg-granberg-and-granberg.html
about 1 month ago
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New post, with Magnus Granberg two or three times.
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Granberg, Granberg and Granberg
Magnus Granberg: The Willow Bends And So Do I
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/11/granberg-granberg-and-granberg.html
about 1 month ago
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"Like on a long journey through open landscape, impress with an unyielding image despite any surface variations along the way." Long piano works by Linda Catlin Smith and Forrest Moody.
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Two more long-ass piano pieces
Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume One: The Plains
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about 1 month ago
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Hey I wrote something how about that?
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Two more long-ass piano pieces
Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023), Volume One: The Plains
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/11/two-more-long-ass-piano-pieces.html
about 1 month ago
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"A Romantic disquisition made through a renewed, corporeal language." Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'.
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Liza Lim: String Creatures
Liza Lim: String Creatures
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/10/liza-lim-string-creatures.html
2 months ago
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New post. Listening to Liza Lim's 'String Creatures'.
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Liza Lim: String Creatures
Liza Lim: String Creatures
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/10/liza-lim-string-creatures.html
2 months ago
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"A way of finding music that endures past the point when all momentum has been exhausted." A moment's pause.
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A moment's pause
Huw Morgan: Melos
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/a-moments-pause.html
3 months ago
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New post. A moment's pause.
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A moment's pause
Huw Morgan: Melos
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/a-moments-pause.html
3 months ago
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New post. The return of 840 and a bonus Music We’d Like To Hear.
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The return of 840 and a bonus Music We'd Like To Hear
840 at St Cyprian's, Clarence Gate
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/the-return-of-840-and-a-bonus-music-wed-like-to-hear.html
3 months ago
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"I am not a fan of this sort of thing." New releases: stories, conversation, Icelandic rap battles, technobabble, paltry yatter.
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What Is Going On
Olly Sellwood: Charlene from Big Data and other stories
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/what-is-going-on.html
3 months ago
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New post. Olly Sellwood! Peter Falconer! The Zöllner-Roche Duo! Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson! Thomas Kotcheff! Bryan Curt Kostors! Cage! Feldman! Ranting!
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What Is Going On
Olly Sellwood: Charlene from Big Data and other stories
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/what-is-going-on.html
3 months ago
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• Send promo email with 29MB of attachments • No download code
4 months ago
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"Freewheeling exploration that’s unconcerned with accidentally revisiting what has been done before." 14 albums: it's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025.
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End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025
Mauricio Moquillaza: Mauricio Moquillaza
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/end-of-summer-noise-round-up-2025.html
4 months ago
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New post. It's the End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025.
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End Of Summer Noise Round-Up 2025
Mauricio Moquillaza: Mauricio Moquillaza
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/09/end-of-summer-noise-round-up-2025.html
4 months ago
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Blessed Relief
#BandcampFriday
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4 months ago
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"The impersonal gains profundity when it engages with the listeners to reflect upon themselves." Exaudi sing JĂĽrg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around?
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Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert
JĂĽrg Frey: Voices
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/08/weeks-with-and-without-voices-frey-gombert.html
4 months ago
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New post. Exaudi sing JĂĽrg Frey and Apartment House play Gombert. Isn't that supposed to be the other way around?
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Weeks with and without voices: Frey, Gombert
JĂĽrg Frey: Voices
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/08/weeks-with-and-without-voices-frey-gombert.html
4 months ago
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"The dual nature of astringent timbre and surprising resonance." Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin.
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Three Fusis
Andrew Greenwald: A Bridge Between Spaces
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4 months ago
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New post. Listening to three solo albums by Marco Fusi, on viola d'amore and violin.
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Three Fusis
Andrew Greenwald: A Bridge Between Spaces
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/08/three-fusis.html
4 months ago
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"They purport to be simple, but their apparent directness is deceptive."
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Listening to Phillip Golub's 'Loop 7' and Leo Chadburn's 'The Primordial Pieces'.
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The Deceptive: Phillip Golub, Leo Chadburn
Leo Chadburn: The Primordial Pieces
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/08/the-deceptive-phillip-golub-leo-chadburn.html
5 months ago
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New post. Listening to Phillip Golub's 'Loop 7' and Leo Chadburn's 'The Primordial Pieces'.
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The Deceptive: Phillip Golub, Leo Chadburn
Leo Chadburn: The Primordial Pieces
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/08/the-deceptive-phillip-golub-leo-chadburn.html
5 months ago
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Ben Harper "A satisfying combination of intellectual integrity and imaginative whimsy." Being in the audience for Music We’d Like To Hear, Summer 2025.
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Music We'd Like To Hear, Summer 2025
Music We'd Like To Hear, Summer 2025
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/07/music-wed-like-to-hear-summer-2025.html
5 months ago
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New post. Being in the audience for Music We’d Like To Hear, Summer 2025.
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Music We'd Like To Hear, Summer 2025
Music We'd Like To Hear, Summer 2025
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/07/music-wed-like-to-hear-summer-2025.html
5 months ago
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"I can stop kidding myself I’m going to be motivated to think about it seriously."
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Cruel, But Unfair
Giuliano d'Angiolini: )))(((
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/cruel-but-unfair.html
6 months ago
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New post. I'm already very sorry.
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Cruel, But Unfair
Giuliano d'Angiolini: )))(((
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/cruel-but-unfair.html
6 months ago
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"Once the process takes hold the material strays outside of any clearly defined bounds." Listening to Kory Reeder's 'Homestead' and works by Cyril Bondi and d'incise.
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Exhaustion, and more
d'incise: Incendies
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/exhaustion-and-more.html
6 months ago
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New post. Listening to Kory Reeder's 'Homestead' and works by Cyril Bondi and d'incise.
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Exhaustion, and more
d'incise: Incendies
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/exhaustion-and-more.html
6 months ago
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"As if the unadulterated form wasn’t trippy enough." Pianos, pretty much, with albums on Another Timbre and Sawyer Editions.
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http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/pianos-etc.html
7 months ago
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New post. Pianos, pretty much, with albums on Another Timbre and Sawyer Editions.
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Pianos, etc.
Timothy McCormack: mine but for its sublimation
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/06/pianos-etc.html
7 months ago
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"A clear organisational method behind the piece can be inferred from listening, even if it can’t be readily explained." Listening to Catherine Lamb's 'interius/exterius' and Jürg Frey's 'Longing Landscape'.
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Catching up: Catherine Lamb, JĂĽrg Frey
Catherine Lamb: interius/exterius
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/05/catching-up-catherine-lamb-jurg-frey.html
7 months ago
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New post yay. Listening to Catherine Lamb's 'interius/exterius' and JĂĽrg Frey's 'Longing Landscape'.
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Catching up: Catherine Lamb, JĂĽrg Frey
Catherine Lamb: interius/exterius
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/05/catching-up-catherine-lamb-jurg-frey.html
7 months ago
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"A brooding, atmospheric piece of disturbing transformations." Listening to Raven Chacon's 'Voiceless Mass' and Martin Iddon's 'Hesperides'.
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Nameless Peaks: Raven Chacon, Martin Iddon
Martin Iddon: Hesperides
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/05/nameless-peaks-raven-chacon-martin-iddon.html
8 months ago
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New post. Listening to Raven Chacon's 'Voiceless Mass' and Martin Iddon's 'Hesperides'.
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Nameless Peaks: Raven Chacon, Martin Iddon
Martin Iddon: Hesperides
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/05/nameless-peaks-raven-chacon-martin-iddon.html
8 months ago
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Watched
#AusVotes2025
for Antony Green's last turn calling the votes and he went out with an arcane South Australian bestiality reference god bless him.
8 months ago
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Dang what happened to my website
8 months ago
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"A chance intervention by the weather." Group improvisations, but... pieces by Cosimo Fiaschi, Nicolò Francesco Faraglia, Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen, Kristofer Svensson.
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In Groups: Fiaschi, Faraglia, Bennardo, Nillesen, Svensson
Cosimo Fiaschi: Wunderkammer
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/04/in-groups-fiaschi-faraglia-bennardo-nillesen-svensson.html
8 months ago
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New post. Group improvisations, but... pieces by Cosimo Fiaschi, Nicolò Francesco Faraglia, Maya Bennardo, Etienne Nillesen, Kristofer Svensson.
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In Groups: Fiaschi, Faraglia, Bennardo, Nillesen, Svensson
Cosimo Fiaschi: Wunderkammer
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/04/in-groups-fiaschi-faraglia-bennardo-nillesen-svensson.html
8 months ago
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reposted by
Ben Harper
Apartment House
9 months ago
Out now our new albums on Another Timbre, Kory Reeder’s sublime long form string quartet and chamber works from a beautiful period in John Cage’s compositional life.
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"Pieces that strip away all the surface appearances of music and leave you with the deeper substance." Listening to challenging pieces by Sarah Hennies and Derek Baron / Luke Martin.
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Sarah Hennies: SOVT
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9 months ago
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New post. Listening to challenging pieces by Sarah Hennies and Derek Baron / Luke Martin.
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Sarah Hennies: SOVT
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/04/title-goes-here.html
9 months ago
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"The transformation is more enigmatic than a conventional resolution." Quatuor Bozzini and junctQĂn keyboard collective play Rebecca Bruton and Jason Doell, duets by Sarah Saviet and Joseph Houston.
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More strings (bowed, struck)
Rebecca Bruton + Jason Doell: a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/03/more-strings-bowed-struck.html
9 months ago
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New post. Listening to Quatuor Bozzini and junctQĂn keyboard collective play Rebecca Bruton and Jason Doell, duets by Sarah Saviet and Joseph Houston.
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More strings (bowed, struck)
Rebecca Bruton + Jason Doell: a root or mirror, blossom, madder, cracks; together
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/03/more-strings-bowed-struck.html
9 months ago
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"Inspired by the virgin martyrs of the early Christian church”. Big glob of new music for mostly electric guitars right here.
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Catching up on guitars, mostly
Jules Reidy: Instants & Their Echoes
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/03/catching-up-on-guitars-mostly.html
9 months ago
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New post. There's like seven, Jesus, albums of guitars reviewed here. Eldritch Priest Jules Reidy Àlex Reviriego Francesco Serra Erica Dawn Lyle Lauri Hyvärinen Jukka Kääriäinen Yaron Deutsch
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Catching up on guitars, mostly
Jules Reidy: Instants & Their Echoes
https://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/03/catching-up-on-guitars-mostly.html
9 months ago
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*taps mic* "Uh, important."
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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GET IN
add a skeleton here at some point
10 months ago
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"Grief – of the solemn, stoic kind – is ever present." Listening to slow, slow pieces by Sarah Davachi and Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane.
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Slow music: Sarah Davachi, Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane
Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane: Distances Bending
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/02/slow-music-sarah-davachi-clara-de-asis-rebecca-lane.html
10 months ago
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New post. Listening to slow, slow pieces by Sarah Davachi and Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane.
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Slow music: Sarah Davachi, Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane
Clara de AsĂs & Rebecca Lane: Distances Bending
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/02/slow-music-sarah-davachi-clara-de-asis-rebecca-lane.html
10 months ago
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"A lowkey masterpiece of the minimal". Listening to Laura Cocks’ 'FATHM' and Petr Bakla’s 'Cello & Piano'.
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Unearthed: Laura Cocks, Petr Bakla
Laura Cocks: FATHM
http://www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikeadrill/2025/02/unearthed-laura-cocks-petr-bakla.html
11 months ago
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New post. Listening to Laura Cocks’ 'FATHM' and Petr Bakla’s 'Cello & Piano'.
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Unearthed: Laura Cocks, Petr Bakla
Laura Cocks: FATHM
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11 months ago
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