Tarentel – Mort Aux Vaches Label: Staalplaat Format: CD This is a ‘live’ recording of a U.S. guitar based outfit and consists of four fairly long workouts. “Adonai” covers some of the territory of Fripp and Eno and is a somewhat somnolent affair with rippling guitars creating a lazy ambience. […]
Monthly archives: December 2008
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Ui – The Iron Apple Label: Southern Format: 12″,CDS Named in respect of the vitality of the 103-year old owner of the cider house in Pennsylvania where Ui rehearsed for many years, The Iron Apple shows the band in further abstracted territory from their “post-Rock” roots. As ever, the combination […]
Van Delta – EP No. 1 Label: Groove Attack Format: 12″ Sometimes better known as Drum & Bass duo Monophace, Hannes Wenner and Christopher Klos have taken on the Van Delta monniker to experiement beyond the genre. Their first simply-titled EP takes an excursion into diverse territory, making the HipHop […]
Ka – Terrarium Label: Jazzassin Format: 2×7″ The exquisite paper, smelling of the tire it represents on the cover – “Superior 2000”. Confidence. The vinyl is clear – the speed at which it is to be played is not. So, this re view comes at you from 33 rpm. It […]
Miriam de Waard – Voor Elise (an electronic welcome) Label: Staalplaat Format: 3″ CD Rhythmic ratcheting enters from the fog and brings it along besides. Fuer Elise – but only the most familiar of the notes. Plinky bells tinker along, as if trying to catch up with its larger, more […]
Xinli Supreme – All You Need Is Love Was Not True Label: Fat-Cat Format: 7″ Short description: Xinli Supreme sound something like the Japanese Flying Saucer Attack. Longer review: Xinli Supreme sound from time to time like Flying Saucer Attack when they were so much more lo-fi than recently. Monospaced […]
Akira Yamamichi – Sémiologie Label: Fire Inc. Format: CD The word to sum up Sémiologie is pure. Akira Yamamichi has produced on of the purest expressions of sub bass. This is the kind of album you can really share with your neighbours. He does this by working with pulse beats, […]
Zorn – Bits For Breakfast/Gloomy Sunday Label: Expanding Format: 7″ Pressed up on translucent tangerine vinyl, Zorn‘s contribution to Expanding Records‘ EVS series opens with a rather pleasant synth line rising over a mechanistic yet melodic rhythm. Sparks of staticky percussion sound cleave themselves to the slowly chiming beat; the […]