Porya Hatami seamlessly integrates his electronics with field recordings, and he seems safe, sound and enlightened in the middle of his own, private Eden in […]
Tag: Ambient
Brett Naucke :: Seed (Spectrum Spools)
Naucke is an expert at corralling the organic tumbling output of his modular experiments into a cohesive whole. Modular synths are unwieldy beasts to control. The […]
Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)
A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]
Teppana :: Hento (Somehow)
For their debut EP, Finland’s Teppana opens small and politely, a Baroque music box nestled among curly fallen leaves playing for an audience perched on […]
Anklebiter :: Weight of a Pronoun (The Crime League)
Portland, Oregon based Tanner Volz, aka Anklebiter, wants you to know that without his collaborators, Weight of a Pronoun wouldn’t have happened. “I doubt I […]
Francesco Giannico & Theo Allegretti :: Flow Signs (Oak Editions/Monkey)
Allegretti improvises a soothing melody up against Giannico’s quietly soaring guitar. Francesco Giannico and Theo Allegretti pose the “riddle of the mood” (as their final […]
KiloWatts :: Seven Succulents (KiloWatts Music)
Seven Succulents is probably KiloWatts’ most accomplished work to date, an impressive achievement given his uniformly excellent back catalog. Imagine, if you will, that you’re […]
Yann Novak & Pinkcourtesyphone :: Double review (Dragon’s Eye)
Not long back we trailed the return, after a self-imposed hiatus, of Dragon’s Eye, an imprint very much in the catchment area of this organ’s more […]
Wegrzyn :: Volksmusik (Etalabel)
Three brief piano loops, nothing more, heavily processed. Volksmusik is said to have had its genesis in tragic personal events that befell debutant Lukasz Wegrzyn, […]
Rainer Veil :: New Brutalism (Modern Love)
A brooding bricolage of jungle and rave dérive pressed into a prickly post-paradigm. Industrial plumes continue to cloud current techno and related—labels like Blackest Ever […]
Closer :: In Search of Life (Self-Released)
A beautifully sonic, softly shifting and emotional instrumental pop ambient album that will ravish fans of the genre. Closer is a young multifaceted ambient / […]















