Porya Hatami seamlessly integrates his electronics with field recordings, and he seems safe, sound and enlightened in the middle of his own, private Eden in […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Ákos Garai :: The Imagined River (Kaon)
Evoking the fog of ghosts hovering over the pale grey fields of asphodel, the realm of dreams. With its nineteenth recording, “La Rivière” keeps on […]
Teppana :: Hento (Somehow)
For their debut EP, Finland’s Teppana opens small and politely, a Baroque music box nestled among curly fallen leaves playing for an audience perched on […]
Francesco Giannico & Theo Allegretti :: Flow Signs (Oak Editions/Monkey)
Allegretti improvises a soothing melody up against Giannico’s quietly soaring guitar. Francesco Giannico and Theo Allegretti pose the “riddle of the mood” (as their final […]
Huerco S. :: Colonial Patterns (Software)
That rare combination of intellectual stimulus and visceral irresistability. A colonial pattern is the cooperative formation of complex patterns, like the snowflakes drifting earthwards to […]
Wegrzyn :: Volksmusik (Etalabel)
Three brief piano loops, nothing more, heavily processed. Volksmusik is said to have had its genesis in tragic personal events that befell debutant Lukasz Wegrzyn, […]
Mirrorman & India Czajkowska :: Secretia (Zoharum)
Deeply sincere but more poetically oblique. Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist India Czajkowska put out a lovely album on Alio Die’s Hic Sunt Leones label five years […]
Broken Synths / Neon & the Other Noble Gases :: Split EP (More Mars Team)
Liberating, easefully spun-out melodies betraying a fondness for early krautrock and its brainy structures, while chugging along with the wonky, good timey grin of backyard […]
Daniel Thomas & Kevin Sanders :: Four More Cosmic Jams… (Cherry Row)
Droning like a flax mill left running on standby ever since the textile industry in Leeds took a downturn in the 1850s, the numerically titled […]
3View :: Chihei Hatakeyama
Since 2006, Chihei Hatakeyama has delivered album after album of thoughtful, exquisitely crafted ambient music, a series of mirages that, although inspired by what he […]















