Impose Magazine — If there were a Holy Trinity of living minimalist composers, it would be made up of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich. The first two have flirted with the mainstream (Pete Townshend citing Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air as an influence on s... more info

Guardian Music — Sufjan Stevens, On tourWhen Sufjan Stevens was last here, his live shows were fantastical affairs with troupes of 50s-style cheerleaders and orchestras wearing butterfly wings. Back then his stock-in-trade was turning the civic histories of unfashion... more info

Totally Fuzzy — (Chilly) Gonzales, born Jason Charles Beck, is a Grammy-nominated Canadian musician currently residing in Paris, France. Though best known for his first MC and electro albums, he is also a pianist, producer, and songwriter. If you ever wondered wh... more info

Mercury News, California — The 74-year-old minimalist composer, who performs solo Saturday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, shows no signs of slowing down as he launches a 'new cycle' of creative work. more info

Nialler9 — Chilly Gonzales’ next step after his brilliant Ivory Tower album and movie last year will be The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales Suite, an all-orchestral rap album out on June 6th with live shows to follow. Accompanied by Hollywood swells, tympani roll... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dustin O'Halloran - Lumière A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and f... more info

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Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, LondonRelativity: the opera? It's been done. Philip Glass put Einstein on a beach, and a German opera, C – the speed of light (2005), swirled us around multimedia universes to... more info

Altsounds — There's no point in trying to unearth an obvious “single” in Other Lives' second album, Tamer Animals. Here's a better idea instead: succumb. Let every last song wash over you like proper long players once did, from the swift stri... more info

Guardian Music — Barton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age ... more info