Stephen Fruitman

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Damian Valles :: Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)

Reviews 02/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Valles expands the drone to orchestral proportions, as his field recordings, small bells, piano and guitar are all swept up into a string section, with […]

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James Murray :: Floods (Slowcraft)

Reviews 02/16/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

There is a scarlet thread that runs through Floods, a kind of cicada sibilation in air so clear it’s Andean. And honestly this music makes […]

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CELER :: 3View (Con-V, and/OAR, Analog Path)

Reviews 02/11/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Steve Roach :: Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection (Projekt)

Reviews 02/10/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Marco Resmann :: Watergate 10 (Watergate)

Reviews 02/09/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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, […]

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JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY :: 4View (Hors Territoires)

Reviews 02/09/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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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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