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… […]
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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 […]
3View :: Hakobune & Dirk Serries, Chihei Hatakeyama and Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries
Creeping up from noisy roots to a remarkable, idiosyncratic and gentle, clinging ambient ivy. As Vidna Obmana (“optical illusion” in Serbo-Croatian), Belgian mega-artist Dirk Serries […]
Kazuya Matsumoto :: Mizu no Katachi (Spekk)
Like nature herself, Mizu no Katachi is neither minimalist nor maximalist, but equal-tempered, the earthbound reality of Pythagoras’ postulated “music of the spheres.” Coming from […]
Jonathan Kawchuk :: North (Eilean Rec.)
North is true, a subtle combination of acoustic and electronic instruments, skeletal and essential—no more than what you need to make it through. A brief collection […]
Lunar Abyss & Uhushuhu :: Double review (Zhelezobeton)
Double review for Lunar Abyss and Uhushuhu. Aikana Uni by Lunar Abyss Lunar Abyss :: Aikana Uni (Zhelezobeton) A forest, boisterously Amazonian, at night, on a […]