My Magic dreams have lost their spell
(2020, Orange Milk Records)
LP/ CD/ digital

1. Tides That Defeat Identity (10.12)
2. Pretending You And I (8.52)
3. Tonight There’ll Be No Distance Between Us (5.05)
4. What A Made-Up Mind Can Do (9.33)
5. Now Neither One of Us Is Breaking (4.34)
6. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (7.45)

“For the past six years, Toronto-based composer Nick Storring has been generating a unique body of deeply personal work, painstakingly created by layering his own performances on a wide assortment of acoustic and electromechanical instruments. My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell—a heartfelt, albeit oblique, homage to Roberta Flack—is his frst vinyl release and sees his overdub-rich music taking a lush and nocturnal turn. Many of the compositions foreground his primary instrument, the cello, making the connection between his unique approach and orchestral music all the more explicit. While the record is haunted by wistful, introverted romanticism, its repeated hurtlings into psychedelic texture, bent pop-derived shapes, and gestures harvested from the musique concrète lineage, ensure that its trajectory remains a disorienting one.”

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Zachariah Cook — Tone Glow, Top 10 Albums of 2020 (Individual Contributor Lists)
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Monica Mazzoli — Kalporz, Top 10 dischi
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Justin Poulin, The Family Reviews — Staff Picks 2020
Spotify, Fresh Finds: Best of Experimental 2020
Obladada — Elekto | Obladada 2020 (Best of 2020)
CJSW — Top 20 Experimental / Contemporary Classical Albums of 2020
Free Form Freakout — Favorite Music of 2020
Mappa Editions, Favourites of 2020
Allan J. Cronin, The New Music Buff
Ed Pinsent, The Sound Projector
Raul Da Gama, Outward Bounding Canadians, That Canadian Magazine
Ettore Garzia, Percorsi Musicale
Chris May, All About Jazz
Daniel Barbiero, Avant Music News
Nitestylez.de
Blake Haarstad, Smack Media
Ron Schepper, Textura
Laura Stanley, DOMINIONATED
Chris Baber, JazzViews
Grego Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Classical-Modern Music Review
Bill Meyer, Dusted
Fabricio Vieira, FreeForm FreeJazz
Riccardo Papaci, Droga Magazine
Sound As Language
Nick Ostrum, Free Jazz Collective
Dolf Mulder, Vital Weekly
Kevin Coultas, In On The Corner
Ben Taffijn, Nieuwe Noten
Steph Kretowicz, The Wire
Sunik Kim, Tone Glow
Chris Ingalls, PopMatters
News From Neptune
Bryon Hayes, Exclaim!
Ohestee (Track by Track)
AQNB
Juliet Hoornaert, SBVRSV
David Olds, The WholeNote (pg. 49)
Michele Palozzo, Esoteros
Paul Baker, Only Strings
National Sawdust
John Nicol, Obladada
Tinnitist — 14 Songs to Crank Up This Monday, 2020
Vanessa Ague, Road To Sound
Film Freeway (profile on video director, Ellie Anglin)
AppleMusic — Signal To Noise
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