Ensemble Pearl, self-titled, Drag City, DC544CD (2013) Led by Stephen O’Malley and featuring Michio Kurihara, Atsuo of Boris and William
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Fistula: a complex and temperamental sound beast of many moods
Sujo and Sun Hammer, Fistula, Inam Records, CD 107 (2012) “Fistula” is a medical term describing a passage between two
Continue readingVaporware / Scanops: quiet electronic wonderworld shyly waits for visitors
Bee Mask, Vaporware / Scanops, Australia, Room 40, RM450 (2012) Deceptively innocent and cheerful, this spacey and spaced-out recording by Bee
Continue readingA Very Visual Bricolage
Among the most radical and fiercely experimental avant-noise makers is Guido Hübner and his project Das Synthetische Mischgewebe. The DSM
Continue readingThe Towering Inferno
From Eli Keszler we have the wonderful Catching Net (PAN 32), shaping up to be an exceptionally powerful set…I received
Continue readingA Floating State
A great shame that the German sound artist Rolf Julius died in January 2011, a fact which I have overlooked
Continue readingBreed in Me the Darkness: demon hybrid child needs to spread its wings and rejoice in full satanic blackened noise glory
Sutekh Hexen and Andrew Liles, Breed in Me the Darkness, Aurora Borealis Records, cassette (2012) (NB Album scheduled for
Continue readingLigeti Morphed: a sometimes spellbinding performance of acoustic and electronic music combined
Ensemble Offspring with Oren Ambarchi and Martin Ng, Ligeti Morphed, Sydney Festival / About An Hour (CarriageWorks, Eveleigh, 13 January
Continue readingOmnimoment: five soundscape pieces that delight the senses
Hitoshi Kojo, Omnimoment: Site-specific Sound Works 2006 – 2009, Omnimemento, CD OM05 (2012) A beautifully packaged set of five soundscape
Continue readingTwo Vinyl Voltaggios
Colour Field Texas musician Rick Reed is here with a sumptuous double LP called The Way Things Go (ELEVATOR BATH
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