Francisco López and Xabier Erkizia, Elektra Bidasoa, Ferns Recordings, CD ferns_stem_02 (2011) Environmental field recording expert Francisco López teams up with
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Great Explorers: gentle surf music and psych-pop amble through Cambridge
The Doozer, Great Explorers, United Kingdom, Pickled Egg, EGG76CD (2010) A very pleasant psych-pop amble through his home town of
Continue readingArtistry of Exhaustion II: trickles of sound blown up into mighty grinding glaciers
Carbonscape, Artistry of Exhaustion II, www.carbonscape.bandcamp.com (2011) Carbonscape, the ambient twin of black metal act Petrychor, has three digital albums
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The Mind Robber Hobo Sonn might be Ian Murphy. We last heard from him in 2008 with The Thundering Nature
Continue readingTwo Weeks in Alert Bay: spotlight on a traditional First Nations society in western Canada
Hein Schoer, The Sounding Museum: Two Weeks in Alert Bay, Germany, Gruenrekorder, CD Gruen 082 (2010) I never know quite
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Ten songs of a rather lugubrious hue from the Italian singer-songwriter who calls himself Rella The Woodcutter. Previous albums have
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Eyvind Kang has realised an intense LP of enchanting and stark acoustic music with Visible Breath (IDEOLOGIC ORGAN SOMA004), clearly
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An excellent pairing of Ilpo Väisänen, formerly of Pan Sonic, and Dirk Dresselhaus who I’m not familiar with, the not-so-angelic
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Hidden Bird’s Nest (3LEAVES 3L011), eh? Know what you mean…if this was an English folk song record it would be
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Schumann, Kagel and Ferrari refracted through the Warsaw kaleidoscope of imagination From Poland in October we got these three items
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