The plaintive cry of Loren Connors and Suzanne Langille is I Wish I Didn’t Dream (NORTHERN SPY RECORDS NSCD 031),
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Protocol Ghosts
Chip Shop Music with Toshimaru Nakamura Protocol POLAND MATHKA MTHK09 CD (2012) Here’s a disclosure: having met and seen David
Continue readingAbrahadabra: a dark black metal / shoegazer pop album of despair and foreboding
Circle of Ouroborus, Abrahadabra, Kuunpalvelus, LP (2012) One of my favourite Finnish bands, the black metal / shoegazer post-rock duo
Continue readingMoëvöt (Best of): barmy Satanic ritual horror with equal parts experimentation and kitsch
Moëvöt, Best of, Sanity Muffin, cassette s/m#40 (2013) As far as I know, this tape collects everything that was done
Continue readingA Fitful Impasse
Monica Brooks & Laura Altman As Is AUSTRALIA IT’LL BE AWESOME 002 CDR (2012) Curious CD from Sydney. Very spartanly
Continue readingCorollaries: beautiful and shifting soundscapes of continuous piano / violin music
Lubomyr Melnik, Corollaries, Erased Tapes Records Ltd, ertp048cd (2013) Pianist Lubomyr Melnik plays continuous minimalist piano music in a way
Continue readingSacra Nemesis
Some quite nice processed guitar work from Alex Durlak. His Seconds (KOMINO RECORDS K0M1N0-001) release is just 20 minutes long
Continue readingSomatic Soundtracks: modest set of abstract experimental minimalism with a dub touch
Ulrich Troyer meets Georg Blaschke, Somatic Soundtracks, 4Bit Productions, CD 4Bit-P001 (2012) I’ve already passed quite a few pleasant afternoons
Continue readingOctavluv – a puzzle to be unpicked
Caroline Park Octavluv Visceralmedia Records VMR008 Following digital releases, and limited cassettes on Private Chronology and Bathetic, Octavluv is Caroline
Continue readingElegant 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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