Stephen Fruitman

Author: Stephen Fruitman

Tpiatnaw :: Untitled (Beartown)

Reviews 08/31/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Beneath its ruddy surface, Untitled exudes vintage analogue warmth with its heart-warming arpeggios—a kind of ambient/noise yin and yang. A DDT spraying of the storied […]

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Montano :: Subtitled (Self-Released)

Reviews 08/28/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

At its best, which is often, Subtitled glows with a warm, low intensity. [Release page] Subtitled is ambient music with some gentle beats and glitch scuffing, […]

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Jeff Talman :: Nature of the Night Sky (New Domain)

Reviews 08/28/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Talman’s fifty-minute piece spellbinds the listener with his artistry and the artistry inherent in our universe. [Release page] Jeff Talman (b. 1954) has exhaustive studies […]

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Andreas Brandal :: The Merchant of Salt (Dumpster Diving Lab)

Reviews 08/28/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

The Merchant of Salt has a big, warm sound, an almost naîve, early radiophonic workshop charm and inquisitiveness, while remaining utterly contemporary in arrangement and […]

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Mulm :: The End of Greatness (Cyclic Law)

Reviews 08/24/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

This is a well-tempered, living and breathing soundscaping; indeed, one track is even called “Hope.” All of it is monochrome, but refreshingly for the genre, […]

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Icebreaker with BJ Cole :: Apollo (Cantaloupe)

Reviews 08/24/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Though warmly welcome, what these recordings ultimately represent is not the radical deconstruction of one of the most innovative musical forces of the last generation, […]

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Goldenbats :: Goldenbats II (Spectropol)

Reviews 08/22/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Goldenbats anthropomorphize the planet in a sympathetic, guileless manner—it rumbles, thunders and pours, but after all the dramatic geological and atmospheric events, the terrain is […]

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