Kranky The latest Loscil release stems from an intriguing proposition; have a twenty-two-piece orchestra play a three-minute composition, press it onto acetate and sample the end result after a little abuse, and use that as the basis for ten long drifting pieces. In general, Clara is a sedate album, initially evoking the slow ebb and flow of waves on an empty beach, but a sea that over millennia […]
Daily archives: 22/07/2021
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Glacial Movements John Sellekaers‘s latest series of drone sculptures are the sort of journey in which you can just close your eyes and allow them to transport you. The drones are deep and resonant, but with other lighter textures skirting the edges, pushing you off balance just a little. The ebb and flow is at times slow and rhythmic with pulses scattered, the rising and falling bringing to mind […]
Tenor-Vossa I suppose it is fair to say that what set Breathless apart from their contemporaries was the extraordinary voice of Dominic Appleton; it somehow managed to encapsulate a desolate longing, but never really strayed into melancholy. It was a voice that understood loneliness and did its best to rise above it. Having said that, the band managed to surround that voice with some of the most widespread […]
Jazzland The artwork for Maridalen‘s first album, photographs of beautiful but brooding Scandinavian vistas sit well with the pastoral gentleness of the music contained within. The three players — Anders Hefre on sax and clarinet; Jonas Kilmork Vemøy on trumpet and sparse percussion; and Andreas Rødland Haga on double bass — convened in the nineteenth century mission house of Maridalen Kirke and somehow the vibe of this old […]