Norwegian player Askild Haugland is a model of go-it-alone self-determination, continuing to create his solo work as Taming Power for
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Strange Tales of the Sea
Dave Clarkson is the Mancunian fellow behind Music For Lighthouses and A Red Guide To The Coastal Quicksands of the
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Seasonal Work
Multi-instrumentalist Gigi Gratt has created an ambitious solo double-LP Das Ganze Doppelalbum (INTERSTELLAR RECORDS INT044), a work themed on the
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Yama: a pleasant journey through ambient minimal electronica that reaches a plateau and stays there
Raskol’nikov & Hjalmar Yama POLAND ZOHARUM ZOHAR158-2 (2017) On one level, this album of ambient electronic soundscapes traces a journey
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Freigeist: a throbbing, pulsing power electronics album demanding (and taking over) all your attention
Kotra, Freigeist, Ukraine, Kvitnu, CD 56 (2018) Kotra is the main art / music project of Ukrainian musician / producer
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A Blizzard Born of Jafrate
Orfeo 5 In the Green Castle UK DISCUS RECORDS DISCUS 62 CD (2017) It must be as lonely as being
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Coconut Sport
Got a couple of cassettes from Eric Kinny’s Santé Loisirs label, formerly of Mulhouse in France and now in Belgium.
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Seeds and Stems
p.o.p. (psychology of perception) Ikebana UK FMR RECORDS FMRCD432-1116 CD (2017) The rather awkwardly named (and always lower-cased) p.o.p. is
Continue readingIn Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Experimental Music Studios: School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Various Artists, In Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Experimental Music Studios: School of Music, University of Illinois at
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Sarastus: a short work of pleasant nature-themed neofolk ambient coming from a dark place
October Falls, Sarastus, Finland, No Sign of Life Records, NSOL 003 (2007) Here’s very pleasant and relaxing guitar-dominated folk ambient
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