Hervé Vanhems has adapted a variety of folk pulses—Native American, Hindu, Latin—and assimilated them into Mirages without having them seem this least bit out of place […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Sun Araw & M. Geddes Gengras meet The Congos :: Icon Give Thank & Icon Eye (Rvng Intl)
Icon Give Thank is hands down the most important collaboration of the year. The document of a unique, self-sustaining social and musical biotope, an acknowledgement […]
Nils Quak :: Aether (Nomadic Kids Republic)
Produced entirely on a modular synthesizer mixed with field recordings, it lurches and quavers, sooty and sebaceous, and pieces break off from the main flow. […]
Spaces Between :: Untitled (Striate Cortex)
Quiet, fiddly needlework and big, reverberant soundscaping, textures, melodies, ambiences and mood adjusters are assayed on a baker’s dozen tracks covering just under forty-eight minutes. […]
Musette & Logreybeam :: Double review (Häpna, Les Enregistrements Variables / Muri)
Both engage with popular music, but while Logreybeam’s is more intimate—small salons and cafés—Musette’s is music intended for big public spaces—dancehalls, radio, office tower lobbies […]
Midwich :: Running Repairs (Striate Cortex)
Running Repairs is the right name for this, his return to recording after an extended sabbatical. [Releases page] As befits a label named after the […]
Holzkopf :: Papa Don’t Think Nothin’, Mama Don’t Say Nothin’ (Isolated Now Waves)
Although caked and crusted in noise, it is meticulously assembled of minutiae, colourful debris caught up in a tornado. Jake Hardy from Saskatoon possesses a […]
Sachiko & Rinji Fukuoma :: άTOMO∑ (Musik Atlach)
A trip which includes a passage through drizzle and cloud, beyond roaming satellites and finally so far out of sight that it begins catching up […]