Constellation Judging from the artwork of the latest Jerusalem In My Heart album and the fact that Qalaq is explained as feeling of deep worry, the state of play in the Middle East is a constant concern to Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. The renowned soundscaper and producer has managed to use this […]
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Discus Martin Archer is once again proving himself one of the hardest-working people in music with two very different collaborations in quick succession. It seems that every other release that comes from Discus involves his playing, but there is always an extraordinary diversity in styles and sounds. The latest albums […]
One Little Independent With their second album, AVAWAVES, the duo of Aisling Brouwer and Anna Phoebe, found themselves stranded far from one another during the enforced partition of lockdown, but still with a burning desire to collaborate on new music. The synchronicity of their ideas and sounds is in no […]
Crammed Discs Brussels in the early ’80s must have been a really cool place to be, with Marc Hollander starting up Crammed Discs just as Tuxedomoon arrive, spreading their stateside art rock sensibilities across the city. Lurking in a bar in the centre was Benjamin Lew, tinkering with an MS-10 […]
Rednetic The eleven tracks spread across the latest release from 4T Thieves apparently owe something to Boards Of Canada; but having never listened to that act, I can only say that the woozy soundscapes and lethargic trip hop beats captured here have a real effect on the listener, their odd […]
Fallen Moon John Sellekaers‘ latest Feral Cities album is a series of drone-based soundscapes that fit well with the brooding but slightly abstracted cover image. There is a sense of solitude that runs through Arcs And Layers, but the sort of solitude that is bracing and life-affirming. The jittery opening […]
Thrill Jockey The bringing together of Montreal’s Big|Brave and Portland’s The Body has produced a gratifying collision culminating in a series of tales taking in slow, ancient folk and creeping, hypnotic post-metal in equal measure, laying them bare and then piling noise and heartache into the mix to provide an […]
Intimate Inanimate After the languorous drift of the recent collaboration with Daniel Blomquist, Aria Rostami has turned up the tempo and returned with a series of glichy, dancefloor friendly, sub-techno grooves that are as easy to consume curled up on the sofa as in an early morning warehouse club scenario. […]
Erototox Decodings Thomas Dimuzio‘s love of the Buchla synhtesiser is well known and here, on the precursor to Sutro Transmissions, we find his initial forays into that universe, that limitless dimension that means every release is a new journey or a new series of travels into the unknown.
Freestyle Dan Berkson‘s journey through music has taken him a long way and through a lot of styles to wind up producing this classic jazz album. Forming a funk band, playing in Chicago and then moving to London producing deep house 12″s, he eventually re-connected with his first instrument, the […]
Buried Treasure Delaware Road supremo and all around electronic whiz Alan Gubby has been producing pieces under the pseudonym of Zyklus for the best part of forty years, which is an incredible feat, let alone all the other pseudonyms and collaborations. ‘ Stimulacra compiles twenty-three tracks from Zyklus’s oeuvre dating […]
(self-released) I was intrigued to learn of ambient jazz duo Nelson Patton‘s deep involvement with the genre defying artist / singer Lonnie Holley and there is some obvious bleed between his brand of impressionistic, dreamlike song-writing and the slightly woozy, eyes half-closed atmospheres of Universal Process, their latest album. Although […]
Yew As a child, I had an image of how the future was going to look and I have to confess that forty-odd years later, I am pretty disappointed. Everything seems to be smaller, more compact, less shiny and interesting and space is almost ignored. The sounds on Losing Circles […]
Carton / Coax Visual artist and sound sculptor Jean Francois Riffaud has taken his RIFO alter ego on a guitar odyssey hanging primarily on tonal repetition and hypnotic rhythmic interaction. Running through five inter-related pieces that spur one another on like an enthusiastic relay team, the guitar on Betel is treated […]
Geist im Kino It is hard to believe just how prolific Rutger Zuydervelt is as Machinefabriek, and how he finds the time to put together something as thoughtful and involved as the soundtracks created here for choreographer Yin Yue‘s dance pieces. There are two separate commissions here, both inhabiting a […]
Room 40 For his latest epic, composer Lawrence English has eschewed anything human-made and has chosen to weave a series of pieces from sounds recorded over a period spent in the Amazon. Rather then putting down a recorder and allowing it to capture whatever happens and unleash that, he instead […]
Thrill Jockey William Tyler‘s folky Americana has graced releases by Lambchop and Silver Jews as well as his increasingly assured solo releases. Marisa Anderson treads similar ground on her own records, although the recent collaboration with drummer Jim White did lead down some exciting improv avenues. The eight tracks presented […]
(self-released) Mr Diagonal‘s latest album is a curious thing, coming on like the strange musical of a landlocked dreamer forever yearning for the tropical shores of the Pacific. On the cover, he sits clutching a six-string ukulele, straw hat and cut-offs, but appears to be in a launderette or somewhere […]
Thrill Jockey Cécile Schott seems to have taken the opportunity on this latest Thrill Jockey album to go fully retro electronic with the likes of the Yamaha Reface, Roland Space Echo and Moog Grandmother being given the chance to glimmer in the dusty twilight that abounds on The Tunnel And […]
RVNG intl. Rachika Nayar‘s follow up to the recent Our Hands Against The Dusk is a gorgeous little series of bedroom snippets, a dozen flights of guitar fancy that trade chiming circular motifs against delicate picking, with the odd churn of lower register adding a touch of melancholy here and […]