A vortex of sorcerers’ certainties graphed according to agnostic geometry. Khôra by Finnish sound artist and graphic designer Niko Skorpio is a book of secrets, […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Instant Movie Combinations :: For the Travellers Sadly Walking in Ever Mist (Cold Graey)
Each is a drone exquisitely painted with a broad brush of many, slowly shifting colors. Instant Movie Combinations have created three shimmering backgrounds For the […]
Yves De Mey :: Frisson (Archives Intérieures)
This album length extended player has the narrative flow of free-standing but interlocking short stories with more sense of place than state of mind. Limiting […]
John 3:16 :: Visions of the Hereafter (Alrealon Musique)
Gerber grinds out Gehenna-gaze guitar that blurs the line between the blessings and the curses in a very personal theodicy, not trying to reconcile the […]
M.Armani :: Construindo Sombras (Luscinia)
Each of Construindo Sombras’ eight pieces unwinds so gracefully and cling to one another in such close kinship, they seem carefully, purposefully composed. Marcelo Armani is […]
Sindre Bjerga & Micromelancolié :: Momentum (Twice Removed)
Momentum is gorgeously desolate. One must admire the restraint the duo commands, elegantly and perversely amplifying its ghastliness. Twin, extended drones, smooth, minimal but bumpy […]
Dao De Noize & Naoki Ishida :: Split Series #1 (Zero Kei)
Like Indian ragas, the pieces seem composed and arranged to be played at specific times of day, following the sun across the sky. A new […]
Meridian Brothers :: Devoción (Works 2005-2011) (Staubgold)
In the music of the Meridian Brothers, you can hear surf and circus, sixties and seventies, theatre and politics, space age and stone age. The […]
Wall to Wall Carpeting :: Pilliad Echons (Orila)
This is the persona of Pilliad Echons, juxtaposing the rough and the smooth in drawn-out sequences like night overlapping into day. Opening far away on […]
Mark Stewart :: Exorcism of Envy (Future Noise Music)
Dub as an attitude, its “destruction of a structure a political as well as a musical statement.” The end of the civil society averted—this time. […]
















