A collection of cameos rendered in feathery tones and dusty pitches by Todd Gautreau aka Tapes and Topographies, Plumage’s sonorities, languorously looping and limned in treated effluvia, point to timbral and spatial elements as its primary zone of sonic inquiry.
Reviews
Craig Padilla & Zero Ohms :: To Sleep On Stellar Winds (Spotted Peccary Music)
To Sleep On Stellar Winds is an epic space music album with Berlin-school influences that feature unique blends of modular synthesizers and wind instruments, to carry all listeners floating along the cosmic breezes to the outer edges of the universe, and beyond.
ZeckDBH :: Quartet (zanderhythm)
The duo flex melodic fibers and braindance shards over a wide spectrum with funky beats, synaptic pulses, and fluttering synths. Their capacity to produce squelchy, nearly lifelike shapes is equally susceptible to deformation in the form of elastic vibrations
Shahzad Ismaily, Stanford Cheung, Andrea Scala :: ENDROLL EP (Aural Shapes)
ENDROLL is an EP that weaves together a landscape of multi-instrument improvisations. The genesis of this album began with the question of whether all music needs a beginning, and instead, to hypothesize on whether music could still retain intention when drawn from a place of “finality.”
Keiss :: Oblique Minimalista (Pulse State)
Eleven structural layers on Oblique Minimalista bend, twist, drift, and collapse as glitch mechanisms weave through punchy, minimalist grooves.
Frank Riggio :: Qu4drilogy (Versions / Outtakes) (Hymen)
“Qu4drilogy is a concept work for four albums by Frank Riggio iggio. The concept is fully finished with the additional album Versions / Outtakes—released exactly one year after the first part was published.”
windscreen strings :: instinct EP (33-33)
instinct elicits playful blips and bleeps as structured found sounds are carefully pieced together, transporting us to uncharted realms.
Iván Muela :: Ether (Self Released)
Placing special emphasis on creating piano flavored ambient meditations capturing the moment, these compositions are splattered with improvisation and chance. Iván Muela is fascinated by the way technology can become an essential part of the compositional process.
Heiko Maile + Julian Demarre :: Neostalgia (Bureau B)
From start to finish Neostalgia offers an elegant and absorbing listen. It may have taken four years to blend and ferment as other projects for both artists came to the fore, but that extra time spent on the hard drive before being passed off to listeners has made it both sweet and subtle.
Dalham :: Alive In Wonderland EP (Golden Ape)
On Alive In Wonderland, Dalham (aka Suffolk countryside-based and London-residing Jon Michaelides) shifts slightly from his prior style of gauzy sound spheres and broken beats to slow motion, BOC-infused psychedelic semi-electro shapes.
Tineidae :: Dead Chapters (Artificers)
Tineidae is the moniker of Pavlo Storonsky, a sound producer whose style embraces cinematic textures, synth waving pads, and hypnotic-electro grooves, often immersed in dystopian sci-fi territories for the emotional and aesthetic inclination.
















