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 […]
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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. […]
Emerge :: Double review (Attenuation Circuit)
Deep, dark ambient on black. Oneirism consists of two, twelve-minute nightmares of deep, dark ambient on black, ten-inch vinyl, signed by Emerge (aka German soundscaper […]
34423 :: Tough and Tender (Kaico)
An analytical thinker who conveys thoughts concretely with an array of fascinating rhythms and beguiling melody, likely attributable to the early influence of The Aphex […]