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    Feb 08, 2022 3 minutes
    BY ROGIER VAN BAKEL

    THIS ISSUE: Are those nonmusical sounds on many recordings a feature or a bug?

    The advantage of a highly resolving music system is that you can hear deeper into recordings. The disadvantage is that you can hear deeper into recordings.

    For the last couple of nights, I’ve been listening to , a recent collaboration between Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, and the London Symphony Orchestra. Almost the entire 46-minute, nine-movement album is built on two chords, played simultaneously on an acoustic piano and a celeste. The instrumentation swells and wanes—Sanders’s intense sax impression.

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