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20/06/2023 Ed Pinsent

The Great Magnetic Detective

Three recent vinyl releases from Mark Vernon, the UK sound artist, composer, and manipulator of tapes (which he collects assiduously).

25/04/2023 Ed Pinsent

A Skeleton at the Feast

New items from the Polish Zoharum label. The ORD project is one fellow, Alexey Shipilov from Voronezh in Russia, calling

09/04/2023 Ed Pinsent

Crush Depth

Third item we’ve heard now from the Welsh dark droner Llyn Y Cwn, real name Benjamin Ian Powell. For Du

09/02/2023 nausika

Beyond the Dark Zones: going into far reaches where dark jazz, ambient, drone, electroacoustics and musique concrète merge

Cristiano Bocci, Beyond the Dark Zones, Italy, Unexplained Sounds Group, USG079 CD (2022) Based in Tuscany, Cristiano Bocci set out

11/01/2023 nausika

III, Ascension: cycle of life, death and beyond portrayed in an immersive epic experimental soundtrack

Feigur, III, Ascension, France, Steelwork Maschine, SMR024 CD, vinyl LP (2022) Formed in 2007 by French multi-instrumentalist Adrien Tibi, originally

08/01/2023 Ed Pinsent

The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d

Bipolar ExplorerForests, Voices, Coastlines, Dreams: Recordings for the Dark OutsideUSA SLUGG RECORDS CD (2021) Michael Serafin Wells and Sylvia Solanas

22/12/2022 Ed Pinsent

The Pain of Listening

Swedish dark droner Jarl continues a preoccupation with hearing disorders, as noted on previous release Hyperacusis, a near-clinical examination of

16/12/2022 Ed Pinsent

The Ineffable Presence

Ilia Belorukov here with Someone Has Always Come (SR008), for the Polish label Sublime Retreat. This Russian composer, improviser, performer

12/11/2022 Ed Pinsent

From the Moon of a Dwarf Planet

Jeff Surak with a perplexing cassette from the Californian Eh? Aural Repository label run by Bryan Day. We’re given almost

30/10/2022 Ed Pinsent

Trips to the Edge of the World

Three otherwise unrelated items from the Room40 label that were inspired by or influenced by the global lockdown situation, all