Pauline Oliveros – Accordion & Voice (1982)

Deep listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros would have turned 90 this year and of course this is celebrated with a series of reissues. In addition to a previously unreleased collaboration with the avant-tricksters of Reynols on Smalltown Supersound, her label home in her later years, Important, is doing an incredible job: in addition to a reissue of the 11CD box (!) Reverberations from her early creative phase, it has finally released vinyl reissues of The Wanderer and Accordion and Voice. The latter marked a turning point in Oliveros’ work, who can be heard formulating a new musical poetology on two long pieces with the two means mentioned in the title. Improvisation, drone, sound in motion. Kristoffer Cornils