A thoughtful sonic map of moments in the city, each just two, three, four minutes long. Over many decades, Montréal has gone from being a provincial […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Jean-Claude Éloy :: Le minuit de la foi / The Midnight of The Faith (Hors Territoire)
Eloy proffers an array of dampened, eerie sounds, like a great digestive system. The belly of the beast? Although arising only momentarily, the denouement almost […]
Jón Ólafsson & Futuregrapher :: Eitt (Möller)
Though a collection of distinctive tracks, Eitt is all of a piece. As Ólafsson indulges us, the world keeps spinning on Futuregrapher’s axis—water trickles and laps, […]
Celer & Machinefabriek :: Compendium (Irrational Arts)
Full of light and space with a few dark corners, Compendium is a perfectly curated collection, packaged in charming, wish-you-were-here collaged cover art. Will Long plays well with […]
Sound Awakener & Linear Bells :: Belonging to the Infinity (Soft)
Motionless as the dead, writhing with memory. Nguyễn Hồng Nhung forces me to pay close attention to her career as it unfolds—each new thing she does as […]
Chihei Hatakeyama & Federico Durand :: Magical Imaginary Child (White Paddy Mountain)
Equipped with only cassette player and guitar, respectively, the duo first lay low, moving unmarked through a sunken lane in the landscape, shoulder-high, green embankments veined with […]
Pleq & Giulio Aldinucci :: The Prelude To (The Long Story Recording Company)
The setting sun backlights two figures paddling gently beneath low-hanging boughs shot through with shafts of perfectly apt, melodramatic strings (played by violinist Tomasz Mreńca), as coureurs […]
Girių Dvasios :: Ratu (Cold Tear/Dangus)
Girių Dvasios makes hand-tufted dub, punching strands of circular song into a canvas of very rootsy dub, with organ bubbling, guitar doodling, and flutes and melodica singing […]
R.A.N :: Her Trembling Ceased (Partapart)
R.A.N (Roads At Night), has stitched together a patchwork of moods ranging from grey to pitch black into whole cloth by capturing the feel of “ill at […]