I recall seeing the name of electroacoustician Anna Lockwood mentioned for the first time in a now yellowing page of
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Instrumentarium: 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
Continue readingEnsemble Pearl: debut album of low-key cavernous drone soundscapes
Ensemble Pearl, self-titled, Drag City, DC544CD (2013) Led by Stephen O’Malley and featuring Michio Kurihara, Atsuo of Boris and William
Continue readingFistula: 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
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