Pyat’shest’tri, Tretiy Album, Germany, Detriti Records, cassette DR-034 / Squall Recordings, cassette (2018) Pyat’shest’tri (the name means “five-six-three” in Russian)
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Tag: drone
Karl Marx’s 200th: a compilation of busy and fiddly electronic music for a noble cause
Various Artists, Karl Marx’s 200th, Germany, Karlrecords, KR-058 2 x CD (2018) Last year (2018) was the 200th anniversary of
Continue readingScattered Memories: a meditation on modern Iran combining traditional and modern musics
Saba Alizadeh, Scattered Memories, Germany, Karlrecords, LP / digital album KR060 (2019) A current musical trend across the globe is
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The Magic Carpathians
Very good album of frozen drones by Maze & Lindholm called Where The Wolf Has Been Seen (AURORA BOREALIS RECORDINGS
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The Catbird Shrilled
Trumpeter Joe Moffett is a member of Earth Tongues with Dan Peck and Carlo Costa, a trio whose heavy albums
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When Glory Shone Around
PLYXY’s Gloryland EP (HALLOWGROUND HG1806) seemed at first spin like just another ambient set, but creator Ros Knopov has invested
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Mass Observation (Expanded): study in invasive digital surveillance as relevant and shocking now as it was in 1994
Scanner, Mass Observation (Expanded), Australia, Room40, CD limited edition / digital (2018) Originally recorded with Jim O’Rourke and Robert Hampson
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Kings of Half-Speed
Varropas is Finnish duo Jusso Paaro and Samuli Kyto, playing guitar and synth to create amiable “cosmic” music. The Rakuuna
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Block Wrecker
If you enjoyed the desolation and brutality of the NWW PLAY TNB LP, you’ll be very happy with the CD
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Have Robot Dog, Will Travel … striving to describe the difficulties of the human condition in an age of technology and technocratic values
Stephanie Pan, Have Robot Dog, Will Travel – A Song Cycle for the Technological Age, Netherlands, ARTEk, ART004 CD (2018)
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