The four pieces on Antiheart are rich and repetitive, like the seasons of the year, which in fact appear on the album, as Bondarev makes discreet […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Thomas Köner :: Tiento de la Luz (Denovali)
Köner’s particular brand of formalism unmoors the work from its author, becomes pure, organic creative process and aesthetic and intellectual pleasure. Composing electronic music, as compared to […]
Lowered :: Arche (For Gongs) (Trome)
Depending on your predisposition, Arche (For Gongs) may serve either as a tranquility base conducive to self-obliterating meditation or a riveting sound experience that brings the mind […]
Sinner DC :: MEG/CDG (Mental Groove / Geneva Ethnography Museum)
Sinner DC is all circular, all spinning. It is silvery particles being held together by some undiscoverable but essential dark matter. Unreduced surface noise is […]
Eraldo Bernocchi & Shinkiro :: In Praise of Shadows (SSSM)
Though subtle indeed, In Praise of Shadows summons a certain dis-ease, a sense of the shy and the paranoid, as if the listening mind were an incarnation […]
Clara de Asís :: Uno Todo Tres (Éditions Piednu)
Uno Todo Tres fills the mind with ‘is not’ everythingness, transported by the frail waver of the single sound that de Asís, a Spanish electroacoustic composer living […]
Lesley Flanigan :: Hedera (Physical Editons)
On Hedera a beat, generated by a defective tape deck, mangy as it is, is the golden loom on which she warps her voice with exquisite control and detail, […]
Conduct :: Borderlands (Blu Mar Ten Music)
Borderlands is filled with “scenes,” evoked by laid back lounge, Cubist flamenco guitar with a serrated metal edge, interstellar wordless vocals, space gongs, Greek island […]