Pinkcourtesyphone, Elegant and Detached, Room40, CD RM451 (2012?) Elegant and detached this second album from the solo act Pinkcourtesyphone certainly
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Billow 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
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Thought Forms are the trio of Romijn, Dhariwal and Metcalfe, playing a delicious form of acoustic trance music on their
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
Continue readingBactérie: placid industrial ambient soundtrack for a tiny movie about tiny subjects
M.B., Bactérie, Taalem, mini-CD alm 34 (2006) Rummaging through my music collection one day, I found I had a few
Continue readingRegional Surrealism
Konx-Om-Pax, Regional Surrealism PLANET MU RECORDS ZIQ323 CD (2012) Although I have since determined that the title probably refers to
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Four cassettes from the Swedish Beläten label sent to us by Thomas Martin Ekelund, who may also be the label
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UK marginalista Hari Hardman‘s cleverness consists of stating his themes in short bursts of electronic drone-noises that stimulate the mind
Continue readingCypher: black metal fusion soundtrack tracking our path to Hell
Spektr, Cypher, Agonia Records, ARCD102 (2013) It’s been several years since I heard anything by this duo and one reason
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