Recent cassette from Seth Cooke is Weigh The Word (SETHCOOKE.EU SC001), another conundrum and conceptual piece which does not surrender
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Suspect Package
Dear Concerned Employees is the latest item from Rinus van Alebeek and his Staaltape label. It’s a high-concept release, in
Continue readingWormwood and Flame: dark ambient dronescape meditation on the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown
Michal Turowski, Wormwood and Flame, Poland, Gazawat, limited CDR / Mozdok, CDR / Positive Regression, cassette special reissue PR9 (2019)
Continue readingThe Daily Routine
Quite the oddity is Canzone Da Parati 88 Wall Paper Song (A SIMPLE LUNCH 30ASL), a double CD which arrived
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An enjoyable spin is Slotmachine (GRUENREKORDER Gruen 186), a ten-inch vinyl record credited to Kuhzunft who is in fact the
Continue readingPartner // Emotive: exploring, investigating and defining one’s individual femininity through monologues and sound poetry
Naomi Jackson, Partner // Emotive, United Kingdom, The Lumen Lake, cassette (April 2019) An intriguing work, “Partner // Emotive” is
Continue readingGdy Sie Chrystus Rodzi
You wait years for an album of obscure early Christmas Carols reinterpreted in an avant-garde context, and then two come
Continue readingRumspringa: low-key and dark power electronics expressing guilt, shame and secret complicity
She Spread Sorrow, Rumspringa, United Kingdom, Cold Spring Records, CSR212 CD (2015) Since 2014 at least, through her current solo
Continue readingLife Metal: a radiant and uplifting return to form for drone doom’s dynamic duo
Sunn0))), Life Metal, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 300 CD / 2 x LP blue vinyl (2019) After three years
Continue readingThe Arcane Cabinet
Below are three empreintes DIGITALes releases, all from 13 November 2018. Alistair MacDonald, currently housed at the Royal Conservatoire in
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