There is a geography of the soul that Rafael Anton Irisarri mapped out in 2015, a cartography drawn with electrified mists, torn soundscapes, and submerged melancholies. A Fragile Geography, his third release on Room40 (see our 2016 review here), spoke at the time with a dark and hushed voice, the echo of an emotionally fractured era. Now, ten years later, the album returns in a newly curated edition by Black Knoll Editions.
Tag: Minimal
Michael Grigoni * Pan•American :: New World, Lonely Ride (Kranky)
It’s hard to be cranky when listening to the soothing sounds presented by Michael Grigoni and Pan•American in their first collaboration, New World, Lonely Ride, a journey into the majestic physical landscape of America as well as its grim psychic underside.
Kuma :: It Depends Which Wolf You Feed (Facade Electronics)
A mesmerizing confluence of sound and vision, where gravity meets cosmic dust—a terrestrial transmission in orbit, beautiful and hypnotic.
Susana López :: Materia Vibrante (Elevator Bath)
What sets Materia Vibrante apart is how deeply it connects on both a sensory and emotional level. It’s the kind of album that doesn’t so much ask […]
Mike Lazarev :: Tarnished Tapes and Saturated Signals (Dronarivm)
Each track feels like an artifact—a fragment of a forgotten broadcast or the warped soundtrack to a dream you only half-remember upon waking.
Nublo Roboten :: Un Silencio Pesado (Kernkrach)
As ever, Kernkrach have unearthed an artist of enviable talent. El Pesado Silencio is an album that illustrates Nublo Roboten’s range and style, contemporary synth-pop that is produced with a sureness of expression and a deftness of touch.
Oberlin :: Ten More Dreamwebs (Self Released) — [concise]
Though built from machines, the soundworld pulses with something strangely tender, as if translated directly from a dream-state—cinematic, organic, and eerily intimate, flowing with a quiet, uncanny grace.
Lia Bosch :: Ever Expanding (13/Silentes)
There are no narrative lines or recognizable formal progressions; instead, what emerges is a constellation of minimal sonic events, arranged according to a non-linear logic, lacking both center and conclusion. In this evolving geography, sound behaves like living matter: it surfaces, withdraws, duplicates, never settling.
secret getii :: xochicuicatl EP (Appendix.files)
The entire suite is a seamless vapor trail—translucent, immersive, and exquisitely understated. xochicuicatl is a terrain of micro-moments and textured silences, a meditative odyssey that rewards every minute of attention.
V/A :: Unexplained Sounds 3.0 (Unexplained Sounds Group)
Unexplained Sounds 3.0 is a bold statement. A hauntingly beautiful homage to the legacy of the Clicks & Cuts era, this compilation highlights past innovation with future possibility, unraveling micro-rhythmic mysteries and glitch-born textures in ways both cerebral and emotionally resonant.
Alessandro Barbanera :: In Darkness Let Me Dwell (Owl Totem)
An epic imaginary soundtrack for a fanciful film noir. In a dreamlike and nocturnal atmosphere, filled with rain and decaying sounds, In Darkness Let Me Dwell—available on Owl Totem, a “dark vibes” division of Dronarivm Records—deconstructs, reworks and wants to pay homage to the imagery and clichés of cinema noir.










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