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It’s been a while since we checked in with Christopher O’Riley, the pianist known for his majestic renditions of Radiohead and Elliott Smith songs. But now, O’Riley returns with cellist collaborator Matt Haimovitz for Shuffle.Play.Listen, an two-disc album whose second side features classical arrangements of songs b...

When it comes to understanding techno-philic artists like the Field aka Axel Willner, process is, if not paramount, a fascinating and at least illuminating entry point. Are we listening to de novo digital sounds laboriously created by hand, live performance/pre-existing samples, or in the Field's case, microsamples? On his debut album, 2007's Fr...

Christopher O'Riley releases Out of My Hands, a new album of his trademark piano interpretations of contemporary repertoire featuring compositions by Nirvana, REM, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, and Portishead, among others.

When we posted "The More That I Do," the lead track from Swedish minimal techno whiz Axel Willner, aka The Field, the comments focused on (a) how beautiful it is and (b) that is makes use of the Cocteau Twins' "Lorelei." In this remix by the Foals, you may want to shift gears to the tinnier sound (it feels blanket muffled or rusty), the attempt...