Pinkcourtesyphone, Elegant and Detached, Room40, CD RM451 (2012?) Elegant and detached this second album from the solo act Pinkcourtesyphone certainly
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Instrumentarium: a wondrous tropical tapestry inquiring into the techniques of dub
Boris Hegenbart with 19 Artists, Instrumentarium, Monotype Records, CD mono055 (2012?) What a wondrous tapestry of soundscapes the digital experimenter
Continue readingGrievous Bodily Charm: a patchwork of hooky tunes that manage to be dull
Mr Vast, Grievous Bodily Charm, Spezialmaterial Records, CD (2013) A kooky retro-Eighties Eurodisco lounge lizard recording this promised to be
Continue readingCourtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass: three-way collaboration not quite a holy trinity of equals
Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass, self-titled, Carbon Records / Gold Soundz / Tibprod / Nexsound / 1000+1 TiLt, CD I’d
Continue readingWir werden: duo in the process of becoming a significant music-making unit
Rdeca Raketa, Wir werden, GOD Records, GOD 11 (2013) Second album by a Viennese duo specialising in electroacoustic improv, “Wir
Continue readingEternal Zio: free-ranging folk drone improv psychedelia weaves a strange spell
Eternal Zio, self-titled, Boring Machines BM043LP / Black Sweat Records BS003LP, LP (2012) Don’t let that label name Boring Machines
Continue readingBillow Observatory: insubstantial ambient music that drifts aimlessly
Billow Observatory, self-titled, Felte CD 003 (2012) Billow Observatory is a duo of two musicians, both with a fair amount
Continue readingA View that won’t Change: hard-rocking melodic proposition with mood music and ambient surprises
Vaquez, A View that won’t Change, self-released CD (2012) The work of one man, Andrew Phillips, but sounding much like
Continue readingOrdine ’91 – ’96: a varied palette ranging from post-punk / garage to severe minimal abstraction
Starfuckers, Ordine ’91 – ’96, Sometimes Records, CD SR_02 (2010) Here’s an interesting compilation of songs by Italian band Starfuckers
Continue readingScather: a low-key and steady little worker
Daniel Menche, Scather, Taalem, mini-CDR alm23 (2005) Another of the two little CDRs I bought years ago, this one’s by
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