It’s a jungle inside Animala Corolla, constantly chattering birds and braying beasts with whom the duo sing (not necessarily in key), chant nonsense—or can they talk […]
Tag: Experimental
Cathal Rodgers :: Thirty-Nine Years of Decay (Striate Cortex)
With a long string of louder work behind him as Wereju, Rodgers continues to investigates a liminal world of dreams, unknowing, displacement, oblivion and ends, […]
Donny McCaslin :: Casting For Gravity (Greenleaf Music)
McCasslin is clearly trying to take contemporary jazz into a new arena with this album. It’s that good old chestnut called fusion that is the […]
Celer :: Rags of Contentment (Dronarivm)
Ragas of calm, resignation to luscious ennui and irrepressible resolve. The record apparently brings to mind Nepal and Eno’s Discreet Music for Will Long, and […]
Bronze Age :: Antiquated Futurism EP (Bed of Nails)
Bronze Age looks to the past and drags it kicking and screaming into a chaotic, thumping, post-industrial present with the début three-track Antiquated Futurism EP, […]
CHOP FESTIVAL :: Polish Experimental Music in China (November 16—18, 2012)
The ChoP Project is a unique transnational initiative that includes sound and visual artists from China and Poland. It was created in 2006 out of […]
KWJAZ :: KWJAZ (Not Not Fun)
An uneasy-listening analogue bubblebath, more remnants of the recent past but stretched, dubbed and arranged with consummate skill into delicious alienations of the familiar. Another […]
r.roo :: mgnovenie (Tympanik Audio)
The dominant emotion on display in the album is a contemplative moodiness—most tracks are led by acoustic piano melodies, which often interweave with subtly manipulated […]
Steve Roden & Machinefabriek :: Lichtung (Eat, Sleep, Repeat)
Ultimately, Lichtung‘s places remain elusive fragments, memory residue, illusory referents of the intangible drift of the music and its field infusions. [Release page] On returning […]
Fazio :: Élégie (Faith Strange)
Elégie is music of comfort, succor for the weary and perhaps the lonely. It succeeds in being free and amorphous while instantly accessible and engrossing. […]
Axxonn :: Beyond Light (Sonoptik)
There are a few strewn-in vocals, barely discernible but somehow audible, and above all there’s a constant stream of layered digital noise, clanging instruments and […]















