Got a bundle of cassette tapes from Andy Birtwistle, who occupies an academic station – he’s reader in Film and
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Straub’s Incline
From Peter Schubert and Andreas Usenbenz we have the record Plaqué (KLANGGOLD KG024), a single 41-minute piece of sound art.
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Another cassette-based missive from the lovely Helen Scarsdale Agency, this time featuring the pairing of Howard Stelzer with Brendan Murray.
Continue readingPolyagogy / Keyboard: a double-set reissue of two compilations of Greek experimental music
Various Artists, Polyagogy / Keyboard, Creelpone, 2 x CD 240 – 241 (?) Way back in the 1970s or 80s
Continue readingAntiphonies / Kavafis Songs: a remarkable double set of soundscape poetry
Nikiforos Rotas, Antiphonies / Kavafis Songs, Creelpone, 2 x CD CP 230 – 231 Some amazing gems of 1960s and
Continue readingClose to the Frozen Borderline
Borderland (MIKROTON CD 53) is a really great record of lucid-dreaming surreal sound-driftery from Cilantro, featuring the talented team of
Continue readingObscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 20: Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 20: Shikisokuzekuu-Kuusokuzeshiki, Edition Omega Point / Archive Series, OPA-020 CD (2015) Admittedly I’m
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French guitarist Ivann Cruz has shown up here tangentially as part of the trio TOC with the pianist Jérémie Ternoy,
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Fab burst of process art-noise on Film Walk (CRUSTACÉS TAPES #9)…this is I think captured from a live event in
Continue readingBlank Cassette
The latest enigma in the form of a cassette tape arrived from Rinus Van Alebeek on 13th October 2016. As
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