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 […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
EUS, Postdrome & Saåad :: Different Streams (Soft)
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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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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Six pieces gather wool as Luu daydreams aloud, ideating musics as concrete as an Irish jig danced out the door. Ringing in summer with church bells made […]
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The air is certainly chilly and the water freezing, but there is much shared warmth here. Painfully unprepossessing, McGowan interweaves emotion with emotionless nature suborning […]
SiJ :: The Earth Shrine (ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ)
The Earth Shrine is not your typical eco-ambient. It pays homage to the global mystic paths once trodden in reverent balance, while hanging like the […]
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