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, […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
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 […]
Samantha Grace Edwards :: Graceland (Beartown)
Puntastic title aside, this one-act sound playlet brings down a proper, dirty brick chill onto even the most clement day. Out of a damp pedestrian underpass […]
Daniel Lercher :: Missa Brevis (Chmafu Nocords)
Sine tones crawl along the nave, round the apse and ascend to meet Lercher midair, at the pipe organ. A “short mass” commissioned by Austrian […]
Lone :: Lemurian Re-Issue (R&S / Magic Wire)
Layering samples on old tape and making music on all manner of quaintly out-of-date appurtenances—one of the many musical children to which Boards of Canada […]
Heidi Lord :: English Electric (Weme)
Each piece is self-contained perpetual motion. Sourcing MRI equipment, modular synthesizers, gongs and guitars, sampled conversation from the grocery store and her own voice, she waxes […]
Alio Die & Parallel Worlds :: Elusive Metaphor (Hic Sunt Leones)
Elusive Metaphor waxes like a benevolent force of nature, one from a time when the world remained enchanted, premodern. Soft, engulfing, and serene sylvan settings, […]
Fjordne :: Moonlit Invocations (White Paddy Mountain)
Moonlit Invocations is modernist art, a Cubist canvas on a cocktail napkin. Fjordne (Fujimoto Shunichiro, also known as “FjS”) first came to my attention with […]















