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. […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
Tape :: Revelationes (Hapna)
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 […]
Pascal Savy :: Fragments (Hibernate)
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 […]
Bedawang :: Skin = Deception (Must Die)
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 […]
Herion :: Out and About (Hypnos)
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 […]
Fovea Hex :: I:I:XII. Hail Hope (Janet)
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 […]
Szilárd :: Spokes (Palaver Press)
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 […]
Vizion Centaur :: Epochalypse (I, Absentee)
Each of the thirty-minute pieces is the soundtrack to its own eschatological fantasy, music within which to ride into oblivion. Imagine it all ending neither […]