Bocian Records is a small-edition label which has released albums involving such luminaries of the avant-garde world as Kevin Drumm,
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The Infant Cycle Left Ear Revolt (Mysterious Disco 2009-2012) CANADA THE CEILING CEIL035 CD-R (2012) Remarkably and eerily melodic results
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I think we last heard from Neil Campbell / Astral Social Club as one half of Iibiis Rooge, a duo
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Omnivore is Glenna van Nostrand from Cambridge, MA. On her self-titled LP (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR072) the gimmick is that
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Phantom Horse produce quite jolly and pleasant music out of their keyboards, guitars and percussive objects, creating a rather dense
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
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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 readingEnsemble Pearl: debut album of low-key cavernous drone soundscapes
Ensemble Pearl, self-titled, Drag City, DC544CD (2013) Led by Stephen O’Malley and featuring Michio Kurihara, Atsuo of Boris and William
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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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Fukushima! (PRESQU’ILE RECORDS PSQ004-2) is a compilation themed on the Japanese nuclear disaster of 2011, caused by an earthquake and
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