Possessing a visionary take on mongrel electronica, Egyptian producer-arranger Maurice Louca brings sounds familiar to lovers of Middle Eastern musics and dervishes them off into […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
The Skull Mask & Midwich :: Six Angles (Hairdryer Excommunication / Cherry Row)
A long, pleasant droneument. Six Angles sees Midwich, Yorkshire no-audience maven Rob Hayler, tag teaming with lucha libre Mexican experimentalist The Skull Mask, aka Miguel […]
Saul Freeman :: Wait: Speak (Vent Sounds)
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 […]
James Murray :: Loss (Eilean Rec.)
Perhaps there are six stages of grief and they differ dramatically depending on who has been stricken. In his quest to capture the sound of […]
The Thomas Family :: Dub Variations (Crow versus Crow Editions)
Elegantly merged, the synthetic and organic sound worlds become a city symphonic. Close collaborators Daniel Thomas and David Thomas are always careful to mention that they […]
Strom Noir :: Urban Blues (Zoharum)
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)
Seeds float on their fluff like a hot summertime snowfall, and Budd’s airy synthesizer bears them that much further afield. Our world and welcome to it. […]
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 […]