For his debut album as Recondite, producer Lorenz Brunner revisited his childhood home of Lower Bavaria, Germany’s thickly-forested, highly conservative southernmost. The muted tones of […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Franck Condon :: Purity Hall (Runningonair Music)
In my mind’s eye, Purity Hall is a gigantic, marble-clad, spiritual space, not unlike a modernist re-imagining of the Taj Mahal, and Purity Hall is […]
Emptyset :: Recur (Raster-Noton)
With its low centre of gravity and alienating, single-word titles, English duo Emptyset are a bit of a nasty propostion within the community of lower-case […]
Akira Kosemura :: 虹の彼方 – Seven Colors Variations (Schole)
虹の彼方 (or “Niji no Kanata”—beyond the rainbow) is the kind of sweet pop song only the Japanese can pull off with a straight face in […]
Kettel :: Ibb & Obb (Sending Orbs)
Bach-like varying a single theme twenty-six times, he brings texture and depth to the bubbles and angles of Ibb and Obb‘s world, and their soundtrack […]
RealPlayer 7 :: Opportunity (Crystal Magic)
Opportunity is ambient for MBAs, inspirational, non-confrontational and glossy vaporwave moods for the visualization of entrepreneurial transcendence. Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself […]
Ket3m :: Syn3rgy (Self-Released)
Syn3rgy is four bursts of computer virus pop. Ket3m is a brand-new duo made up of Shay Nassi (aka Mise_en_ scene) and Tom Kemeny (apparently […]
Omenya :: Kali Mantras (Soleilmoon)
The holy chanting woven into the warm ambient of Kali Mantras is omnivorously reverent and could just as well emanate from Africa, Canterbury or Jerusalem. An especially […]