Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

The Inventors Of Aircraft :: No Answers, Not Even Any Questions (Hibernate)

Reviews 02/08/2015 by Alan Lockett

A disorientated postcard from the edge of an uncharted territory, at once internal and external, in the act of discovery—to the unease of the subject; […]

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Hessien :: Your Empire, In Decline (The Long Story Recording Company)

Reviews 02/01/2015 by Alan Lockett

Evocative scaping of a generally melancholic cast, Hessien’s mix of air and substance uniting the newer ambient waves. Your Empire, In Decline sees igloo review regular, Tim Martin (Maps […]

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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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