(August 2009) In the late 60s a group of artists moved to expunge the figurative image from their art. Hung up on chromatic abstraction – […]

(July 2009) Roland Barthes called it ‘the grain of the voice,’ in writing of how a singer’s vocal contours may tap into ineffable meanings above […]

(July 2009) Skare is the communion between Fredrik Olofsson, Mathias Josefson (aka Moljebka Pvlse), and Per Åhlund (aka Diskrepant), who wield field recordings, found sounds, […]

(July 2009) It seems like only yesterday that NY-based Iranian-born Kamran Sadeghi’s 2007 Dragon’s Eye debut as Son of Rose was sat on the review […]

(June 2009) If Kompakt’s annual new-year gift, the Pop Ambient compilation, is intended to act as a State-of-the-Art of Ambient review, then 2009’s installment signals […]

(June 2009) You can add the name Martin Schulte to a huge and ever-growing pulsating band of ambient-dub-techno exponents – one that may or may […]

(May 2009) Dark Ambient ™ is a perverse musical enterprise in that, like the horror film, unpalatability becomes a positive attribute, a measure of a […]

(May 2009) Mike Fazio conceived of ÆRA as a personal take on symphonic music merged with the art and the literary worlds. The art/literary element […]

(May 2009) Oakland-based sound artist Tana Sprague is Lissom. Behind the slinky pseudonym, she fashions Nest of Iterations, from a palette of sources – field-found, […]

(May 2009) Aversion Therapy is an interesting and divergent choice for Infraction’s first long player. Its creators, Draf ted by Minotaurs, are questing instrumentalists, exponents […]