Since Danielle Baquet’s passing, her talented partner (Will Long), now residing in Tokyo, has continued to release previously unheard material recorded by the duo and […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Steve Roach :: Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection (Projekt)
If you gaze deeply into this music, you really won’t find much to do that. Despite the earnest effort, and although pretty, it is hardly […]
Marco Resmann :: Watergate 10 (Watergate)
Watergate 10 is more reminiscent of DJ Spooky’s plundering a century’s worth of sound archives on Rhythm Science (Sub Rosa) than a conventional club mix, […]
JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY :: 4View (Hors Territoires)
Jean-Claude Eloy (b. 1938) is the greatest composer of the past half-century I never heard of. A profound engagement with the Japanese Gagaku orchestra—imperial courtly […]
Tolouse Low Trax :: Jeidem Fall (Karaoke Kalk)
Weinrich has a sharp, structured mind for creating rhythms of complexity and duration. Rhythms alone would however soon grow tiresome if they didn’t have something […]
RURAL ROUTE :: 3View ~ 2012.1 (Standard Form)
With this trio of releases, Standard Form wraps up its trip down the tertiary roads of numerous provinces, a couple of states, the Shetlands and […]
The Beautiful Schizophrenic & Yui Onodera :: Night Blossom (Whereabouts)
This collaboration between Portugal’s Beautiful Schizophrenic, aka Jorge Mantas, and Japan’s Yui Onodera, who previously made beautiful music with Celer, opens with unobtrusive ambient grace. […]
Tape :: Revelationes (Hapna)
With less corner-cutting ruthlessness, Revelationes is low-key instrumental jazz flecked with pop that is both breezy and broody. Tape is a trio that came out […]
Pascal Savy :: Fragments (Hibernate)
The air crackles and as the end approaches, so do footsteps, crunching the surface of the snow—another ruddy-cheeked traveler coming to warm himself inside. Pascal […]
Bedawang :: Skin = Deception (Must Die)
Skin = Deception is distinct from the music he has released online—minimal with maximum impact, insidious and scary. [Release page] Must Die Records is a one-year-old […]
















