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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 […]
Emptyset :: Medium (Subtext)
This is really not a place you want to spend more time than necessary, and at only twenty-one minutes (though released as a full-sized CD […]
Mala :: In Cuba (Brownswood)
The Jamaican-British Mala (born Mark Lawrence) was one of the South Londoners who put the actual dub in dubstep, and he handles this material beautifully, […]
Michael Begg & Human Greed :: Dirt on Earth: A Pocket of Resistance (Omnempathy)
Too dramatic, almost literary, to be called ambient, too idealistically engaged to be postmodern, Dirt on Earth: A Pocket of Resistance is a quietly roiling, […]
Christian Fennesz :: Aun: The Beginning And The End Of All Things (Ash International)
Fennesz’ score is likely the most accessible music he has ever written, capturing the nexus of nature and civilization—the sea, the city of Tokyo, the […]