Dais I’m not going to use the C word, because it’s been a long time since they ceased to be and we all have to stop thinking in those tired patterns, even me, who can’t. Agalma is a minor triumph all of it’s own, finding pathways through music that spins […]
Monthly archives: January 2021
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Courier Sound Courier Sound main-man Stuart Bowditch has chosen to wade into the “how far can we push twenty-three tracks in twenty-three minutes?” debate with his own retort to Alien and Eumig. Trading as USRNM, Stuart’s twenty-three minutes are wildly diverse and also stray furthest from the format of twenty-three […]
Kranky This is a welcome repress for loscil‘s 2011 album coast/range/arc//. Inspired by the geography of the Cascadian Mountains, it was originally released on the aptly named Glacial Pace and was very much at home there, but the sort of slow motion grandeur in which the album revels definitely fits […]
Eastgate Music and Art In the past couple of years, us Tangerine Dream fans have been rather spoilt by the amount of high-quality historical pieces and releases that have come our way. First of all we had the beautiful edition of Edgar Froese’s biography, Force Majeure, a mammoth book that […]
Niafunken For the latest Noise of Trouble release, main man Marco Colonna has gone for the clarinet as instrument of choice and has drawn in friends Luca Corrada on baritone guitar and Cristian Lombardi on drums, as well as a few others who make appearances along the way. I have […]
Eastgate / Cupdisc In the past couple of years or so, Tangerine Dream, featuring Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss and Hoshiko Yamane, have released five improvised albums dedicated to TD founder Edgar Froese. These have been primarily live recordings made in 2018 during the band’s tour and have had more in […]
Discus The Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere‘s fifth outing finds it expanded to an eight-piece and the bulk of the new album’s material being improvised over two days at the end of 2019. Those initial sessions and the subsequent solitary fettling and studio production over 2020 have resulted in an […]