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 […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
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 […]
Sabri Meddeb :: Between Dawn and Dusk (Self-Released)
Though woven of the loosest skeins of its wool—birdsong, windswept treetops, insect trill—the color and clarity of Between Dawn and Dusk is immediately arresting. The […]
P_Lab :: Times Square Webcam 3 (Care Not Care)
With its noir cast, the quartet create a kind of meta-narrative, in which the city—and the city being watched—is the main character. P_LAB is a […]