MUTEK.ES is about both the new and the “old,” about combining established musicians and new voices. For the sixth year in a row, MUTEK.ES—the sister […]
Author: Owen Vince
MUTEK Barcelona :: March 4-7, 2015
Mutek has increasingly aimed to consolidate its audience while expanding into new territories, promising a memorable array of both new and established musicians, workshops, and […]
ODAE :: If Things Had Memories, The Stories They’d Tell (Morning Hour)
Each track offers something of a carnival of textures, beats and downtempo segments strung around with vocal samples and snippets of conversation. Both as text […]
(ghost) :: A Vast And Decaying Appearance (n5MD)
A Vast And Decaying Appearance has an almost anthemic, multi-instrumental core around which its synth, textures and samples rivet and cohere. The background of (ghost) […]
Monty Adkins :: Borderlands (Audiobulb)
From its earliest moments, the melodic lines expand and warmly burr at their edges, overlapping with other lines that explore the higher range of the […]
Forrest :: Beyond The Withered Hills (I, Absentee)
A complex and disarmingly creative record whose sounds speak of the mystical and the physical in the same airy breath. Forrest is a project of […]
Tashi Wada :: Duets (Saltern)
These are not regulated sine waves, but rather haunting and arrhythmic sounds which assay and deepen your sense of an almost physical space. The duets […]
V/A :: Die Welt ist Klang: A Tribute to Pete Namlook (Carpe Sonum)
Truly phenomenal in scope, content and diversity, Die welt is Klang lives up to its ambitious attempt to document an almost translucent, organic world of […]
V/A :: An Introduction To (Soft)
An Introduction To is remarkable not simply for its range, but for the way that David Teboul has brought these different compositional voices together to produce […]
Steiner :: At Or From A Distance (Glass Reservoir)
These sounds never overwhelm the ambience but, rather, do it service, almost bubbling up through it to add an inflection or humanity to certain sounds. […]
















