With only a handful of releases under its belt so far, Nantes-based Soft is shaping up to be a new preferred haven for the discerning […]
Tag: Field Recording
Orla Wren :: Soil Steps (Oak Editions)
The internal and the external interplay—birdsong, thistles, mills, taverns and hostelries, the pots and pans dangling from a tinker’s cart, toys, raindrops, and happenstances. Sound, […]
Simon Whetham :: From the Mouths of Clay (The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
There’s a feel of an arcane minimal ritual—woozy, somewhat spooked, at times inducing a sense of disquiet deriving from the sepulchral provenance of the sounding […]
Porya Hatami :: Land & Land Remixes (Inner Ocean)
Corollary to Inner Ocean’s re-release of Porya Hatami’s Land (originally only 250 copies on Somehow Recordings) comes an addendum of remixes. A genuine sense not […]
Francisco López :: Untitled#281 (Störung)
‘Field recordings are typically viewed and listened to as referential or simulative. My approach with environmental sound matter moves away from this representational perspective and […]
Paskine :: NIMROD (Voxxov)
We’re confronted with a seething mass of turmoil of lively raw material of fierce density and unstable formations—iterative flows heaving with an organic-seeming stream of […]
Francisco López :: Presque Tout (Quiet Pieces: 1993-2013) (Line)
‘WARNING: Due to the extreme subtlety of these recordings, virtually all of the audio content is completely inaudible through laptop or equivalent small speakers. Quality […]
Autistici :: Attaching Softness (Audiobulb)
‘When musicians play music, they play with sound. Play is the key activity. Like a child with paint or clay—you start with nothing and you […]
Sindre Bjerga & Micromelancolié :: Momentum (Twice Removed)
Momentum is gorgeously desolate. One must admire the restraint the duo commands, elegantly and perversely amplifying its ghastliness. Twin, extended drones, smooth, minimal but bumpy […]
Porya Hatami :: The Waning Branches (Wistrec)
Hatami coaxes the seed out of its pod, through the soil and into harsh sunlight before a moment of silence preceeds a drawn-out keen to […]
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