Layering samples on old tape and making music on all manner of quaintly out-of-date appurtenances—one of the many musical children to which Boards of Canada […]
Author: Stephen Fruitman
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 […]
Daif :: 2017 (Crystal Magic)
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 […]
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 […]
Frank Rothkamm :: Wiener Process (Baskaru)
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 […]
Elisa Luu :: Enchanting Gaze (La Bèl / Hidden Shoal)
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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