Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Robert Curgenven :: They tore the earth… (Recorded Fields Editions)

Reviews 01/29/2015 by Alan Lockett

For all the prevailing visceral, startling and bleak tenor, there are passages where crumbling timbres recede into shimmering suspension—a kind of calm, a glimpse perhaps […]

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Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello :: Fable (Dragon’s Eye)

Reviews 01/18/2015 by Alan Lockett

Tempered field recordings and instrumental detritus (Vitiello) meet peculiar modular tweaks and harmonized electronic efflatus (English) to create a collage commingling a widely sourced tonal palette, […]

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Anenon :: Sagrada (Non Projects)

Reviews 01/17/2015 by Alan Lockett

Conceived as a bridge between more precision studio practice and an increasingly free-ranging sax-ed up live act, his saxophone a unifying and unique voice threaded […]

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Francesco Giannico & Porya Hatami :: Double review (Time Released Sound)

Reviews 01/15/2015 by Alan Lockett

Favourite boutique-artisan label is back bearing time released sounds from the underground via Francesco Giannico and music for airports from Porya Hatami. Francesco Giannico recorded Rome’s metro—lines “B” […]

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Simon Whetham :: From the Mouths of Clay (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)

Reviews 01/10/2015 by Alan Lockett

There’s a feel of an arcane minimal ritual—woozy, somewhat spooked, at times inducing a sense of disquiet deriving from the sepulchral provenance of the sounding […]

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Steve Roden :: Flower & Water (Dragon’s Eye)

Reviews 01/02/2015 by Alan Lockett

‘My hope was that the messiness of my process might offer some sound pieces that might relate to how a kitchen might look when I […]

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SHXCXCHCXSH :: Linear S Decoded (Avian)

Reviews 01/01/2015 by Alan Lockett

Linear S Decoded adds more melodic and narrative cues, favoring bruitism over brutalism, while still being one of the more uncompromising Techno works 2014 has […]

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Chris Herbert :: Constants (Room40)

Reviews 01/01/2015 by Alan Lockett

An immersive sequenced whole of ever-shifting textures, constantly unfolding over ten tracks, many bleeding one into another. Somewhat stifling for some, perhaps, the density of […]

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Dalglish & Brandon Nickell :: Double review (Ge-stell)

Reviews 12/29/2014 by Alan Lockett

Gestell (roughly ‘enframing’) is a term coined by German philosopher Martin Heidegger to describe what lies behind modern technology. Ge-stell is also a new label run by […]

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Seth Cluett :: Forms of Forgetting (Line)

Reviews 12/26/2014 by Alan Lockett

A near hour-long piece at once calming and intense realized through use of elements ranging from static tones to microsonic points and sharp frequency lines intertwined […]

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