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Mood Taeg - Anaphora Versions

Happy Robots Barely six months since Mood Taeg‘s sophomore album Anaphora, the pan-continental collective returns with an album of mixes that uncover the hidden corners and unexpected perspectives of some of those tracks. A few have been dealt with in house, while others have been loaned out and then returned with a little electronic surgery that renders them familiar yet different, certainly enough to justify this little outing.

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Mood Taeg – Anaphora Versions

  • Album review
  • Mood Taeg
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 02/08/2022
Staraya Derevnya - Boulder Blues

Ramble My favourite Russian – Israeli – UK collective Staraya Derevnya are back with another slice of splintered luminosity influenced by the Saint Petersburg poet and artist Arthur Molev. “Scythian Nest” dives straight into a clink-clanked needling mélange of avant folk — an addictive jiver, hot-coal leaping in falsetto warbles and noisy rubs. An absurdist cabaret jigger-jagging the jovial on wizened limbs as the instrumentation plays a nomadic […]

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Staraya Derevnya – Boulder Blues

  • Album review
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
  • Staraya Derevnya
Published 31/07/2022
Army Of Briars - Made From A Broken Star

Discus It has been a long time since the previous Army Of Briars release; sixteen years to be precise, but it does feel as though they have never been away. Coalescing around the quartet of Julie and Tim Cole, Martin Archer and lyricist Keith Jafrate, they ply their unique blend of folk, jazz and impressionist abstraction on Made From A Broken Star, leaving the worries of the day-to-day […]

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Army Of Briars – Made From A Broken Star

  • Album review
  • Army Of Briars
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 31/07/2022
Earthen Sea - Ghost Poems

Kranky Jacob Long‘s third release for Kranky as Earthen Sea finds him further cocooning the listener in his simple but effective web of shimmering soundscapes, soundscapes sent from a distant outpost their lazy beats laced with tingling textures. A rush and a sigh, a sense of plaintive motion, slowly rippling air and a feeling of inexorable forward motion. Sometimes submarine, the bubbles passing a smoky porthole, that gauzy […]

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Earthen Sea – Ghost Poems

  • Album review
  • Earthen Sea
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 31/07/2022
Fabio Frizzi – The Eyes Of The Cat

Cadabra Heavens above, this one comes so packed with goodness it’s hard to know where to start. Like a Whiskas Pure Delight fish selection, this burst of retro loveliness provides everything you and your cat need nutritionally for a healthy and happy life. From Twin Peaks dreamy moodiness to spaghetti Western Ennio Morricone twang, to soaring strings and a bass sound to make Klaus Johann Grobe faintly envious, […]

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Fabio Frizzi – The Eyes Of The Cat

  • Album review
  • David Solomons
  • Fabio Frizzi
Published 31/07/2022
Diamanda La Berge Dramm - Chimp

Diatribe Dutch violinist Diamanda La Berge Dramm has been playing since she was four, and although classically trained and a member of various ensembles, her first solo outing is a rather personal journey through avant-minimalist pop, taking lyrical cues from the work of European Poetry Festival founder Steven J Brown. Accompanying herself with sounds that are generated solely by Moog and violin, she manages to strip the backing […]

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Diamanda La Berge Dramm – Chimp

  • Album review
  • Diamanda La Berge Dramm
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 31/07/2022
Zoviet France live July 2022

London 16 July 2022 Journey’s End is one of those rare “are we really in London” type of venues. A leafy relaxed, creatively crafted affair at odds with the industrialised ugliness of its surrounds, the gig itself taking place in what looked like a reclaimed school hall. UnicaZürn are first up, taking the lead from their new CDR (available on the night, and instantly acquired of course) the […]

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:zoviet*france: / UnicaZürn (live at Iklectik)

  • Icklectik
  • Journey's End
  • live review
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
  • UnicaZürn
  • Zoviet France
Published 26/07/2022

Sofa The latest album from Norwegian tuba player Martin Taxt, as well as being a continuation of the work started on 2020’s First Room, comes on like the ultimate in minimalist sound as architecture. His microtonal tuba carries single tones as if they were the most precious of cargo, listening intently for shifts in pressure and additions of further textures. Assistance comes in the form of another tuba, […]

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Martin Taxt – Second Room

  • Album review
  • Martin Taxt
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 14/07/2022
Yama Warashi - Crispy Moon

PRAH The fourth moon-related release from Yama Warashi finds Yoshino Shigihara‘s band shifting to the Moshi Moshi offshoot PRAH and further stretching their legs with a unique distillation of gently fuzzy psych and that dreamy Japanese vocalising that gives them such an exotic appeal. Over eight lengthy and quixotic tracks, the album leads the listener through gentle foothills and mountain glades to more extreme terrain, switchback paths and […]

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Yama Warashi – Crispy Moon

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Yama Warashi
Published 12/07/2022
Howlround – Trespass And Welfare

Buried Treasure Recorded entirely within a closed-input / fedback set-up and two antique tape machines, Howlround‘s Trespass And Welfare involves no actual input at all – samples, synths, pedals all abandoned in order to chase the ghosts in the machine. Ghosts that for the opener “Sonicjob Horsfunk” are of the squelchy techno kind. A lovely relentless dry-ended-LFO-scooped headfuck raygunned into the cut-off choked distance.

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Howlround – Trespass And Welfare

  • Album review
  • Howlround
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
Published 12/07/2022
Martin Küchen - Utopia

Thanatosis Produktion The list of groups of which reedist Martin Küchen is part is almost as long as my arm. A serial collaborator, his choice of fellow travellers is hugely varied and the number contained within the groups can be anything over two, the Angles projects and Fire! Orchestra perhaps being the most prolific. Here though, he has chosen a rare moment of solitude, and using alto and […]

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Martin Küchen – Utopia

  • Album review
  • Martin Kuchen
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 11/07/2022
Klaus Schulze

SPV It’s a strange feeling to be reviewing the last-ever Klaus Schulze album. Since 1981, I have been a follower of his work after after reading that he was connected to Tangerine Dream, who I was a massive fan of at the time. From that first listen I understood that Klaus’s music shared many elements with TD, but were very much distinctly Klaus as well. The album I […]

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Klaus Schulze – Deus Arrakis

2 Comments
  • Album review
  • Gary Parsons
  • Klaus Schulze
Published 11/07/2022
3 Electro Knights - Rave One EP

Post 3 Electro Knights is a recent collaborative affair from members of Leeds band Bushpilot, who were active back in the nineties; here they have chosen electronic music as their jumping off point, an experiment in synthesis that finds the three members happily exploring the far reaches of their chosen instruments, usefully listed on the back of these two sprawling EPs. Recorded back in 2019/2020, the music travels […]

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3 Electro Knights – Red Admiral EP / Rave One …

  • 12" EP
  • 3 Electro Knights
  • EP review
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 04/07/2022
Sedna Chronicles - Sedna Chronicles

Sedna Chronicles Sedna Chronicles is a travel guide to the occult, unusual and downright eerie. English Heretic’s Andy Sharp and The Hare & The Moon’s Grey Malkin attempt to channel the weird energies trapped within their favourite Scottish haunts, and to be honestly they do a great job, the accompanying fold-out guide enhancing the experience.

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Sedna Chronicles – Sedna Chronicles

  • Album review
  • Michael Rodham-Heaps
  • Sedna Chronicles
Published 02/07/2022
UT - Griller

Out This is the final release in the UT back catalogue re-issue campaign and finds them arriving at perhaps their most fully realised iteration. A good number of the tracks here feature Charlie D on drums, leaving the opportunity for the trio to lend further texture to the already dense and at times claustrophobic sound. Interestingly though, installing Steve Albini in the engineer’s chair removed just a touch […]

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Ut – Griller

  • Album review
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Ut
Published 28/06/2022
Philippe Petit - Modulisme Session 2nd Year BD

Modulisme To celebrate the second anniversary of the Modulisme facility that Philippe Petit has established, he decided to forego the usual improvisation technique and attempt a series of compositions that would perhaps show another route for him and give some further impetus to the already exploratory process of a true world citizen.

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Philippe Petit – Modulisme Session 051 2nd Year BD

  • Album review
  • Modulisme
  • Mr Olivetti
  • Philippe Petit
Published 28/06/2022
Masayuki Takayanagi - Station 70

Black Editions Masayuki Takayanagi is something of a legend in free circles, although tricky to place — nominally free jazz, but a great deal more aggressive than that. Also proximal to free improv, but again a fair amount more savage and, with the exception of maybe Derek Bailey, Takayanagi was more transparently immersed in some very heavy jazz techniques.

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Masayuki Takayanagi – Station ’70: Call in Question / Live …

  • Album review
  • Kev Nickells
  • Masayuki Takayanagi
Published 21/06/2022
Linnéa Talp - Arch of Motion

Thanatosis Produktion Linnéa Talp‘s first album under her own name is all about exploration of the ambient splendour of the pipe organ; but also in combination with her recent discovery of the Buchla synth. Not necessarily obvious bedfellows, her subtle and intricate use of them, along with gently administered contributions from some fellow luminants, produces a series of .

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Linnéa Talp – Arch Of Motion

  • Album review
  • Linnéa Talp
  • Mr Olivetti
Published 21/06/2022

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