Jim Haynes Kamchatka USA CONTOUR EDITIONS CE.CD_0003 CD (2012) I’ve often thought that sound-art should sound like music, without necessarily
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Octavluv – 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
Continue readingTriumphs in Sound Placement
I recall seeing the name of electroacoustician Anna Lockwood mentioned for the first time in a now yellowing page of
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
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 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
Continue readingScather: a low-key and steady little worker
Daniel Menche, Scather, Taalem, mini-CDR alm23 (2005) Another of the two little CDRs I bought years ago, this one’s by
Continue readingBactérie: placid industrial ambient soundtrack for a tiny movie about tiny subjects
M.B., Bactérie, Taalem, mini-CD alm 34 (2006) Rummaging through my music collection one day, I found I had a few
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