The trio’s distinct sound was the result of its refined treatment (the seven pieces were three years in the making) of acoustic instruments, primarily guitar, […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Inch-Time :: Myth and Impermanence (Mystery Plays)
Inch-Time rises from his laptop and drafts real jazz instrumentation. [Release page] Inch-Time is Australian-born Londoner Stefan Panczak and Mystery Plays his own imprint. I […]
Marihiko Hara & Hideki Umezawa :: Jigokuhen (Wist Rec.)
The “sound report” composed in tandem by Marihiko Hara and Hideki Umezawa, multimedia artists from Kyoto and Tokyo, respectively, is quiet and scraggly, just as […]
Park Avenue Music & Cuushe :: Double review
Park Avenue Music :: For Your Home or Office (Mü-Nest) A very welcome re-release. Because of its nifty, “That Girl” modernist advertising art (its layout […]
Sheepscar Light Industrial :: Multi-review
Keeping good on its promise to release three new records every thirty days or so, Sheepscar Light Industrial offers up bite-size but chewy taste teasers […]
Marbert Rocel :: Small Hours (Compost)
The album describes the progression from early evening hours to the early morning hours, and like every all-nighter, there is the inevitable lull…When the sax […]
Five Elements Music & Contemplatron :: Double review
The region where Hinduism and Buddhism circle round one another both warily and enrichingly can be entered either by undertaking an actual journey or by […]
Talvihorros/Damian Valles :: Monuments and Ruins (Textura)
Talvihorros fills his hollow body with tugged heart strings, acutely firing synapses and hot breath, while Valles is more abstruse and belaboured, as we “hear” […]
Bionulor :: Erik (Requiem)
The combination of Satie’s genteel simplicity and Bionulor’s gentle surrealism, complemented by Kowalczyk’s illustrations, transports me to a midway point in time, where Bruno Schulz wanders […]
V/A :: Singita Miracle Beach 10th Anniversary (Klik)
Singita Miracle Beach 10th Anniversary celebrates ten years of music on the beach at sunset—jazz- and tiki-tinged lounge, easy-swaying house, smooth funk and chill-out music of […]
















