Koji Asano remains as productive and as enigmatic as ever. This Japanese emperor of distorted drone released Travel Coupons (SOLSTICE
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Entertainment and Partial Entropy
On Numbers (CREATIVE SOURCES RECORDINGS CS 201 CD) we have the team-up of the guitarist Han-Earl Park with Richard Barrett
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Composer Daniel Stearns freely owns up to the peculiar mental state of “dissociation”, which manifests itself as unusual occasions or
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From Eli Keszler we have the wonderful Catching Net (PAN 32), shaping up to be an exceptionally powerful set…I received
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Concrete and Clay I quite like the Gobi Wow (NEVER COME ASHORE NCALP1) LP from FvRTvR, which turns out to
Continue readingFabriksampler V4: winding its way through different musical territories of Elektronikopia
Various Artists, Fabriksampler V4, Pharmafabrik, PFCD020 (2011) Featuring acts from several countries in Europe and from South Africa, this is
Continue readingOld Earth: four-part opus doesn’t quite satisfy as jazz / death metal chamber music piece
Ehnahre, Old Earth, Crucial Blast, CD CBR99 (2011) Ehnahre are new to me but this trio from Boston, Massachusetts, has
Continue readingGo Back to the Sirius: voyage into multi-dimensional psychedelic realms
VagusNerve, Go Back to the Sirius, Utech Records, URCD073 (2012) Are they serious? No way would you want to return
Continue readingFragments from the Aethyr: black ambient experimental soundscapes teamed with near-hysterical solo violin wanderings
Funerary Call, Fragments from the Aethyr, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR100 (2012) A celebration is in order for Crucial Blast Records
Continue readingApocryphal Stories: grim tales of descent into avant-black metal / industrial / noise world
Utarm, Apocryphal Stories, Handmade Birds Records, CD (2012) Good thing Utarm called his album “Apocryphal Stories” as I’d hate to
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