Many ambient-drone records we receive are the work of a solo act, some dribbek with a laptop processing digital sound
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Decay in a Box
The American label Helen Scarsdale Agency is greatly favoured by both this reviewer and nausika, and we’ve both had kind
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Yan Jun is the Chinese musician, writer and poet who works with in field recordings, improvisation, and feedback noise. I
Continue readingMind-Body Dualism
Happy to note this double-cassette release from Stormhat, called Mind Matter (SENSORISK VERDEN SV-41) and released on the Sensorisk Verden
Continue readingAll the Ghosts are Gone: a confronting recording of personal transformation and rediscovery
Martina Bertoni, All the Ghosts are Gone, Iceland, FALK, limited edition cassette (2020) Martina Bertoni is an Italian-born cellist and
Continue readingBacking Track
Guitar mangler Torsten Papenheim has been roaming around these virtual scaddamarrons for some years now as one half of Rant,
Continue readingHorse Platitudes
Latest Staaltape release is a real raw and dirty oddity. Dai Coelacanth made A Condemned Debtor Does Not Recognise The
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Betwixt & Between 5 (BETWIXT & BETWEEN TAPES) is a split release showing aspects of contemporary English playing that’s been
Continue readingA Souvenir from Thailand
Latest excellent cassette release from Mark Vernon is called Ribbons of Rust (FLAMING PINES FLP081). It’s a moving and beautiful
Continue readingThree Views from the Hemisphäre
Happy to receive another three cassette tapes from Philip Sulidae and his Hemisphäre label (the last three arrived in March
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