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 […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
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 […]
Contact :: Discreet Music (Cantaloupe Music)
A luxurious, active listening success. “Discreet Music” (1975) filled the first side of the album of the same name on Brian Eno’s short-lived Obscure Records label. A creative paradigm […]
Rapoon :: Song from the End of the World (Glacial Movements)
If the sound of the Big Bang can still be heard by tapping into cosmic radiation, then perhaps the song sung at the end of […]