OR gives the ears a thorough pummeling across its eleven relentless bass-music tone-poems, interrupted only briefly by morsels of polished ambience or skewed and bent […]
Author: James Knapman
Jürgen Müller :: Science of the Sea (Digitalis)
There’s a Wes Anderson style quirkiness about Science of the Sea that places it somewhere between Jaques Cousteau and Steve Zissou, an era spanning sound […]
Dynamophone :: 3View 2011.9
Since the release of Seven Saturday’s album in April of this year, San Francisco-based Dynamophone imprint has been quiet. A possible reason for that has […]
Stendeck :: Scintilla (Tympanik Audio)
At seventeen tracks Scintilla is quite the epic journey, another of those consistent Tympanik Audio releases that demand a straight-through listen, with loving care lavished […]
The Caretaker :: An Empty Bliss This World (History Always Favours The Winners)
As a consequence of being not quite hauntological, not quite classical or ballroom, not quite identifiably anything, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is such […]
Donato Wharton :: A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark (Serein)
A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark describes vast open spaces and seemingly endless vistas, but always viewed at long distance within safe, isolated or enclosed […]
Miasmah :: 3View 2011.7
There aren’t a great many independent record labels that have successfully released music as willfully weird and wonderful as Erik Skodvin’s Miasmah Recordings, which continues […]
130701 :: 3View 2011.6
The last thing one would expect from a label with a name like 130701 is a catalog of primarily of post-classical and orchestral works, but […]