Wait: Speak collapses several traditions stretching from Canterbury to Bristol via New York into a very tasty pudding. The first solo album by Saul Freeman, quite […]
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An artist whose ambient work is mostly beatific and bucolic impresses by just barely lifting the shround hanging over a blighted cityscape. The arcing rainbow promise of […]
Harold Budd & Jane Maru :: Jane 1-11 / Harold Budd :: Jane 12-21 (Darla)
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Karina ESP :: A Single Moment, Repeated (Hibernate)
So hold on to what is good as long as possible. Capture those single moments and replay them, repeatedly. A Single Moment, Repeated is a drone […]
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At times pleasantly discomfiting, as befits a real dungeon or seance, at others sooty and hellish as a 19th-century mill. Electronica by gaslight. Outside overcast, the […]
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While making a virtue of a necessity, Analogue is the somewhat perplexing soundtrack to a disorienting, buried-alive ordeal. For Analogue, Grzegorz Bojanek eschews all things […]
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Savy’s pieces strike an interstellar chord, evoking distant static interference, coldness, rotation, darkness, and sudden but brief illumination. The first sounds of Pascal Savy‘s Adrift […]
Danny Clay :: Archive (Eilean Rec.)
Swallowed whole, Archive is comfort in resignation, commiseration in loss, a low-key celebration of ephemerality. I wonder if folklorists or musicologists, or perhaps it takes a […]
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