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Andreas Brandal :: Seance (Twice Removed)

Reviews 01/01/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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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Grzegorz Bojanek :: Analogue (Twice Removed)

Reviews 12/17/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

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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Pascal Savy :: Adrift (Eilean Rec.)

Reviews 12/11/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Danny Clay :: Archive (Eilean Rec.)

Reviews 12/07/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

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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Ian Holloway & Banks Bailey :: Strange Pilgrims (Quiet World)

Reviews 11/28/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Despite its earthy origins, music that absorbs the night sky and all who may travel it. In Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, 17th-century philosopher Fontenelle […]

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V/A :: Soun Compilation 01 (Soun)

Reviews 11/26/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Attainable childhood and adult fantasies and a few good scares. Comes in a stern, minimalist black and white package. Soun Records is the little Slovakian […]

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Thomas Köner :: Tiento de las Nieves (Denovali)

Reviews 11/02/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Thomas Köner’s autopsy of the spatial and temporal properties of the piano. A captivating meditation on the longing in the life of sound. A total rip-off of […]

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