Alan Lockett

Author: Alan Lockett

Tape Loop Orchestra :: In a Lonely Place (Facture)

Reviews 05/05/2013 by Alan Lockett

Fading time-stretched tunes, recursive arcs and dives unravel in a flux of melodic micro-variations, self-cannibalizing loops succumbing happily to the hiss, run through by fraying […]

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Rainbow Valley/Wind In Willows & Celer/Hakobune :: Double Review (Chemical Tapes)

Reviews 04/20/2013 by Alan Lockett

UK-Spain tape traffickers Chemical Tapes specialize in matters pertaining to psycho-active phenethylamine chemical derivatives, notably psychedelics and/or empathogen-entactogens, audio-mediated via limited edition ambient / drone […]

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Autistici :: Beneath Peaks (Hibernate)

Reviews 04/09/2013 by Alan Lockett

For all its sprawl of sparse landscape and sweeping skyline, it’s not so much grand gestures or big themes these peaks inspire Newman to. Rather, […]

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Mountains :: Centralia (Thrill Jockey)

Reviews 04/07/2013 by Alan Lockett

Texture tranches and melodic motifs slow building and transforming in grand designs of pretty particulate patterns; this not by the customary electronic tweakery of acoustic […]

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Thomas Köner :: Novaya Zemlya (Touch)

Reviews 03/26/2013 by Alan Lockett

Overall, what prevails is the strange affectivity Köner’s seemingly colourless tracts induce—their depth of field as against the disengaged ambiguity of Enovian Ambient’s play of […]

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Yann Novak and Robert Crouch :: Fata Morgana (Murmur)

Reviews 03/23/2013 by Alan Lockett

The narrative pay-off is then clinched by the entry of filmic synth-strings, knowingly poignant affective signifiers, tension moving to resolution as it makes itself comfy […]

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Dino Sabatini :: Shaman’s Paths (Prologue)

Reviews 02/08/2013 by Alan Lockett

Shaman’s Paths certainly invokes a more shadowy world, often imbued with a sense of vague disquiet at some ominous nameless presence—not so much a fear […]

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Silent Harbour :: Silent Harbour (Echocord)

Reviews 01/30/2013 by Alan Lockett

Silent Harbour is consummately realized through Bunnik’s opening up of his sound engineering savvy to a spirit of enquiry that subsumes the structure-strictures of techno, […]

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Alex Cobb :: Passage to Morning (Students of Decay)

Reviews 12/26/2012 by Alan Lockett

In a world drowning in ambient droning, Alex Cobb’s methods may be familiar, his materials no more than the tropes of the territory, but outcomes […]

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ALAN LOCKETT :: 21 for 12 mix

Features 12/21/2012 by Alan Lockett

Igloo Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett, aka albient for mix-meddle and audio-fiddle, brings 21 for 12. Published 12-21-12, commemorating 2012’s 12 years of igloomag operations, 21 […]

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