Ocoeur turns back time, piano tastefully graced with soft field samples, a flute, a violin, daubing a vivid, moderately Celtic landscape where sheep may safely graze. The not-so chance […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Double Review :: The Sand Rays / Ray Sands (CEIL)
Both are mysterious discs—looped, concrète, ambivalent, ambient and transportive. No trainspotter I, but old steam engines still conjure romance for me, especially caked matt black with the grease […]
Celer :: Akagi (Two Acorns)
Floating like the wisp of smoke coming off a stick of incense, Agaki curls and intertwines at the behest of small changes in the air. Your present […]
Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide Volume 04 (Zoharum)
Some pieces expand like lungs filling with fresh air, others get the wind sucked right out of them. And of course Rapoon also drifts far, far away… […]
Pinkcourtesyphone & Gwyneth Wentink :: Elision (Farmacia901)
The finest kind of acoustic-electronic collaboration, only nineteen minutes long but destined for endless repeat. When I reviewed Pinkcourtesyphone’s Foley Folly Folio, I thought it was […]
DJ Krush :: Butterfly Effect (Es-U-Es / Vinyldigital.de)
In an interview, Ishi referred to the profound effect the 2011 earthquake and tsunami had on him, on all his countrymen. “You know, you can lose […]
Keith Berry :: Elixir (Invisible Birds)
Busy being birthed: A new recording by philosophical ambient minimalist Keith Berry (The Golden Boat, A Strange Feather, Towards the Blue Peninsula), titled Elixir, is […]
Akira Rabelais :: The Little Glass (Self-Released)
A briny, seaweed-laden music box, the peal of a bell and its reverberation biting into its own tail, singing glasses, star bells and smoothly lurching starfish […]
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