Reaffirming its status as one of the most exciting innovations in the recording and marketing of modern composition since the introduction of magnetic tape, Cold Blue Music‘s series […]
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Noveller :: Fantastic Planet (Fire)
Noveller streaks the sky with wispy contrails while shifting nuances in the landscape—coloring the leaves, withering a plant, elongating the shadows. Sarah Lipstate makes film as well […]
Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Mertin :: Akşak (Staubgold)
Akşak is a drummers’ album for people who don’t like drummers’ albums. Many tracks are “just” percussion, but uncannily melodic—some angular, others flow like the river […]
Vitaly Maklakov & Freiband :: Zondag (Ostroga)
Slowly, Zondag grows almost silent, no more than an evening breeze stroking the beard of a lone stalk of wheat. The aerosol hiss returns at the hour mark, like […]
V/A :: Circuit Intégré Volume 1 – A Compilation of Contemporary Electronica (Zoharum)
An auspicious beginning to a series with significant inertial force. In the interest of cosmic (kosmische?) balance, Zoharum, the label known among other things for […]
Rapoon :: Seeds in the Tide: Volume 03 (Zoharum)
The third, double-disc volume in Zoharum’s massive reissue project of rare works by Rapoon, Seeds in the Tide, opens with a quartet of untitled pieces, […]
Concretism :: Town Planning (Self-Released)
Town Planning is neo-brutalism under a constantly anthracite sky. It is conceptual art celebrating its greyness, its standardization and the strange pull it exercises on […]
Tallesen :: Stills Lit Through (Software)
Stills Lit Through is what metal sculpting would sound like, if it could sing with each fall of the hammer, each bend under the torch, cold rolled […]
Guilio Aldunucci :: Spazio Sacro (Time Released Sound)
Without knowing anything about Aldinucci’s relationship to religion, his reenactment of its length and breadth on Spazio Sacro evokes feelings of both wonder and dread. As […]