Top marks to Alina Kalancea and her album The 5th Apple (STÖRUNG str013). Spoken word recits combined with low-key, creepy
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Tag: spoken word
Promien: aestheticised violence turns out to be noisy kitsch dance music
Mazut, Promien, Poland, Positive Regression, CD PR PRO (2019) Released on their label Positive Regression, this album by the duo
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Until I Learn the Language of Vegetable Mineral: songs for the human inhabitants of Planet Earth from an idiosyncratic observer
Viv Corringham, Until I Learn the Language of Vegetable Mineral, United Kingdom, Linear Obsessional, LOR123 cassette (2019) For the past
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A Field Study
Alain Chamois Let me Take you There U.K. OWD SCRAT RECORDS OWD 010 CD (2018) On the trail then, of
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Partner // Emotive: exploring, investigating and defining one’s individual femininity through monologues and sound poetry
Naomi Jackson, Partner // Emotive, United Kingdom, The Lumen Lake, cassette (April 2019) An intriguing work, “Partner // Emotive” is
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This Intellect Is Wild
Unusual spoken-word and electronica album…The Velocity of Velocities (OPA-LOKA RECORDS OL 1805) is a collaboration between Antonella EYE Porcelluzzi, who
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So This Is Real Life
Rhodri Davies / David Sylvian / Mark Wastell There Is No Love UK CONFRONT RECORDINGS CORE01 CD (2018) Having lost
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Journey Through the Stomach
Bitsy Knox is a contemporary visual artist who has made sculptures, mobiles and suchlike in art galleries – some of
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Nativity Gift
Unusual and touching album of songs and spoken word from Bipolar Explorer, a band in NYC calling themselves a “dreampop
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A Crowd Flowed Over London Bridge
Exceptionally beautiful record of spoken-word and low-key musical jewels by Haarmannhommelsheim called Die Umrandung des Nichts (KLANGMOEBEL KCD 002), a
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