Italian percussionist Francesco Gregoretti last tapped our cowbells with his solo album Solid Layers, Deafening Shapes from 2016, an extremely
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Canonical Paradise
From Slovenia, a new record by Jaka Berger which it’s a pleasure to receive. We first heard from this prolific
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Enjoyable instrumental rock music from Genoa in the form of band calling themselves Apeirophilia. On Interrelate: L.U.A. (NO LABEL) the
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Very good to hear back from the Canadian micro-label Mystery & Wonder Records, whom we last heard in September 2017.
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Ken Matsutani deserves to be reckoned as a hero of Japanese underground rock. He formed Marble Sheep and the Run-Down
Continue readingPyroclasts: companion album to “Life Metal” is a complete work in its own right
Sunn0))), Pyroclasts, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 333 vinyl (2019) Recorded in the same sessions as the earlier 2019 release
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Four new electro-acoustic releases from Empreintes DIGTALes. (18/06/2019) Nikos Stavropoulos studied at Bangor and how has a chair at Leeds
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Sombre electronic tones, subdued half-hidden drones, and ominous beat-like pulsations from Hüma Utku on her Gnosis (KARLRECORDS KR068) record. This
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The Sound Projector Christmas Radio ShowFriday 20th December 2019 Thank God It’s Not Christmas At Home, At Work, At Play
Continue readingSand Enigma: an ambitious foray into a multi-universe of many possibilities but not plumbing very deeply
Land of Kush, Sand Enigma, Constellation Records, CST146 CD / vinyl double LP (2019) As long as I’ve been writing
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