Ultimately, Lichtung‘s places remain elusive fragments, memory residue, illusory referents of the intangible drift of the music and its field infusions. [Release page] On returning […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Tidal & Atlantis :: Double review (Chemical Tapes)
The new wave of cassette underground, for all its freeform and fertile energy, sometimes seems to have spawned a twilight world crawling with a mass […]
Pjusk & Retina.it :: Double review (Glacial Movements)
Glacial Movements has not been entirely unwavering in its frozen isolationist brief. In terms of its original ambit, targeting ‘places that man has forgotten…icy landscapes…fields […]
Minus Pilots :: Hitting Up The Heavens (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Hitting Up The Heavens mostly does little other than drift and pulse gently in a kind of fragmented fluttering, fibrillating, serpentine, glassine motion pool (and […]
Sam Rosenthal :: The Passage (Projekt)
Audio waves swell and ripple out, no tonal transformations, more minute calibrations; Koan-esque, layers are set in motion and simply left to go with their […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: August shimmers and fades mix
The latest mix from albient, the mix-meddling / audio-fiddling arm of igloomag Contributing Editor Alan Lockett‘s expressive enterprise, hosts 19 audio-dreamscenes commemorating summer’s turn. A […]
6APPEAL :: Time Released Sound
Label profile? Pfft! Time Released Sound is nothing so humdrum as a label, more of an artisan’s workshop, producing lovingly crafted over-the-top artefacts housing ultra-limited […]
Talvihorros, Konntinent & Widesky :: 3View (Hibernate)
In 2009 a micro-independent label ‘inspired by the unpredictable, momentary and quiet solitary beauty of the Pennine Moors,’ Hibernate was born. For Jonathan Lees, who […]
Autistici :: Amplified Presence (Home Normal)
Using a deceptively simple approach to craft ten music-soundscape vignettes, coaxing emergent melodies from his dual domains of sonority, some set free from particulate wrappers, […]
Experimedia & Students of Decay :: Multi-review
The last year has seen Experimedia move up into the big league, a series of compelling recordings by the likes of Lawrence English and Black […]
Maps and Diagrams :: Lights Will Call On You / The Town Beneath The Sea (Nomadic Kids Republic)
‘My personal journey through music started over 12 years ago, I have travelled a lot musically myself over that time in my own work and […]
















