Upon listening to Bernhard Living’s output, the music is extremely minimalistic and doesn’t actively try to be challenging in some way; so with how little there is that’s happening, I immediately knew that this was coming from someone who knew what they were doing.
Tag: Avant-Garde
Orbital Patterns :: Extended Impostor Syndrome (Artificial Owl Recordings)
The meditative quality of Extended Imposter Syndrome effectively adds a human touch to a collection of static-filled background noises and ultimately is a terrific way to lift your spirits.
The Off-Keytchen :: The lady from New York (Kaczynski Editions – Pulsioni Oblique)
Considering the density of each piece, The lady from New York is a surreal, disjointed, yet perplexing album that merits repeated listening to even begin scratching its multi-layered surfaces.
John Cage / Aaron Dilloway :: Rozart Mix (Hanson)
Radio and musique concrète go together like bread and butter. As a medium, radio is the perfect platform for playing tape that has been spliced, diced, smothered, covered, layered, reordered, disordered, composed, decomposed and recomposed. That’s what has happened here with a new version of a mid-sixties John Cage composition, Rozart Mix.
C. Spencer Yeh :: The RCA Mark II (Primary Information) — 2017 flashback
Here Yeh reaches out to touch the synthesizer, approaches it as a kind of ancestral relic for those of us who have succumbed to the love of these machines. Here it is fetishized, stroked, recorded with reverence, only later to be dissected, spliced, and decomposed into its own archival document.
Tomotsugu Nakamura :: For A Fleeting Moment (IIKKI)
All in all For A Fleeting Moment is a serene minimal lowercase ambient exploration that will ravish followers of zen-inspired ambient aesthetics from classy Japanese sound designers such as Hiroshi Yoshimura and Yoshio Ojima, but also those who come across the production of LINE Records (notably referring to the slow motion sound architectures of Manja Ristić, Richard Chartier, and Olivier Alary.
Secolare Festival 2024 :: Corato (BA), Italy
The complete lineup of the international Secolare Festival has been announced with, among others, Timber Timbre (CAN), Alabaster DePlume (UK), Rival Consoles (UK), Richard Dawson (UK), Paolo Angeli (ITA), Lalalar (TUR) and Sanam (LIB) — Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August (2024) | Agriturismo San Giuseppe | Corato (BA)
Matti Bye :: Capri Clouds (Denovali)
Matti Bye explores the intrinsic musicality of cinema and inner moving images within a captivating and distinctive style where relaxing lounge orientation meets complex modern jazz interferences; the whole thing connected to densely textured ambient excursions.