Stephen Fruitman

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Samantha Grace Edwards :: Graceland (Beartown)

Reviews 08/08/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Daniel Lercher :: Missa Brevis (Chmafu Nocords)

Reviews 08/05/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Lone :: Lemurian Re-Issue (R&S / Magic Wire)

Reviews 08/03/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Layering samples on old tape and making music on all manner of quaintly out-of-date appurtenances—one of the many musical children to which Boards of Canada […]

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Heidi Lord :: English Electric (Weme)

Reviews 08/02/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Alio Die & Parallel Worlds :: Elusive Metaphor (Hic Sunt Leones)

Reviews 07/25/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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, […]

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Fjordne :: Moonlit Invocations (White Paddy Mountain)

Reviews 07/12/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

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 […]

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Daif :: 2017 (Crystal Magic)

Reviews 07/03/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

A brand-new name in my ear, Daif (surname King) is heralded by Crystal Magic as “New Zealand’s most-beloved visual artist/synth-wizard,” which only goes to show how […]

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EUS, Postdrome & Saåad :: Different Streams (Soft)

Reviews 06/28/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Different Streams is confident and cosmopolitan, not only because its far-flung participants each recorded in their respective hometowns—San José, London and Toulouse—but also (live? improvised? field […]

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Frank Rothkamm :: Wiener Process (Baskaru)

Reviews 06/28/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Twenty-four hours drawn out over twenty-four compact discs, moments germinated inside a single algorithm and nurtured into being in a studio situated in his enchanting sounding Lodge for Utopian Science […]

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