Stephen Fruitman

Author: Stephen Fruitman

Tolouse Low Trax :: Jeidem Fall (Karaoke Kalk)

Reviews 02/04/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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RURAL ROUTE :: 3View ~ 2012.1 (Standard Form)

Reviews 02/01/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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The Beautiful Schizophrenic & Yui Onodera :: Night Blossom (Whereabouts)

Reviews 01/26/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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. […]

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Tape :: Revelationes (Hapna)

Reviews 01/24/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Pascal Savy :: Fragments (Hibernate)

Reviews 01/22/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Bedawang :: Skin = Deception (Must Die)

Reviews 01/20/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Herion :: Out and About (Hypnos)

Reviews 01/19/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

While surely stringently composed, the music flows freely. The experience is sort of like wandering through a whitewashed gallery with bold abstracts hanging from its […]

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Fovea Hex :: I:I:XII. Hail Hope (Janet)

Reviews 01/17/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

The single features “Carol,” just a few, utterly weightless warm breathes in a dark, frozen night, held aloft by Lunny’s viola and violin, and a […]

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Szilárd :: Spokes (Palaver Press)

Reviews 01/14/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

The interpolation of recital and instrumental is intended as dialogue, making Baudelaire’s text an appropriate choice, with all of its juxtapositions, his universe of violence […]

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