Ekkehard Ehlers Adikia GERMANY STAUBGOLD DIGITAL 20 CD (2012) I previously took an interest in the output of the Staubgold
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Elegant and Detached: a beautiful and serene work that’s perhaps too remote and unemotional
Pinkcourtesyphone, Elegant and Detached, Room40, CD RM451 (2012?) Elegant and detached this second album from the solo act Pinkcourtesyphone certainly
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The CD Live at Jazzfestival Willisau (VETO-RECORDS / EXCHANGE 005 CD) documents a concert exchange between Lucerne and Chicago-based jazzers
Continue readingInstrumentarium: a wondrous tropical tapestry inquiring into the techniques of dub
Boris Hegenbart with 19 Artists, Instrumentarium, Monotype Records, CD mono055 (2012?) What a wondrous tapestry of soundscapes the digital experimenter
Continue readingCourtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass: three-way collaboration not quite a holy trinity of equals
Courtis / Kiritchenko / Moglass, self-titled, Carbon Records / Gold Soundz / Tibprod / Nexsound / 1000+1 TiLt, CD I’d
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Magda Mayas is a young percussionist from Berlin but her favorite instrument is the piano. And this is sheer luck
Continue readingWir werden: duo in the process of becoming a significant music-making unit
Rdeca Raketa, Wir werden, GOD Records, GOD 11 (2013) Second album by a Viennese duo specialising in electroacoustic improv, “Wir
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
Continue readingOrdine ’91 – ’96: a varied palette ranging from post-punk / garage to severe minimal abstraction
Starfuckers, Ordine ’91 – ’96, Sometimes Records, CD SR_02 (2010) Here’s an interesting compilation of songs by Italian band Starfuckers
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Ressuage Semelles De Fondation FRANCE BLOC THYRISTORS VINYLE 0090 / BIMBO TOWER RECORDS 017 LP (2011) Another nice French vinyl
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