Kristin Norderval Aural Histories USA DEEP LISTENING INSTITUTE DL 45-21012 CD (2012) The simplest things are sometimes the most difficult
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From a ‘Why?’ to a Whisper
Murmer Framework 1-4 HERBAL INTERNATIONAL CONCRETE DISK 1103-2 2 x CD (2012) Adopting a different tack to so many other
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 readingManners Maketh Man
Alessandro Bosetti‘s work grows more complex and more fascinating with every day. The first things I heard from him were
Continue readingComforts in Atrocity: darkly moody and sometimes hellish industrial ambient soundscapes
Mors Sonat, Comforts in Atrocity, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR92 (2013) On paper at least, Mors Sonat boasts a respectable
Continue readingDon’t Eat the Grass
Another odd entry in the Bryan Lewis Saunders Stream Of Unconscious series of cassettes where contemporary sound artists interpret the
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
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Jim Haynes Kamchatka USA CONTOUR EDITIONS CE.CD_0003 CD (2012) I’ve often thought that sound-art should sound like music, without necessarily
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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