Through sheer bloody determination to push through, Björk has, possibly, maybe, crafted her finest hour as a composer & producer, and the most vital album […]
Tag: Modern Classical
Divine Profanity :: In Paradisum Interview and Mix
An unstable middle ground has been carved out by these Frenchmen. 4/4 patterns exist, but these can easily dissolve into broken or eradicated beat. Melodies […]
Loren Dent :: Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 (Infraction)
Anthropology Vols. 2 & 3 has about it a melancholic cast, more rainy-day Autumnal evening than sun-dappled Aestival afternoon. A review of Anthropology Vol. 1 (2009) prompted this […]
Danny Clay :: Archive (Eilean Rec.)
Swallowed whole, Archive is comfort in resignation, commiseration in loss, a low-key celebration of ephemerality. I wonder if folklorists or musicologists, or perhaps it takes a […]
Carlos Cipa :: All Your Life You Walk (Denovali)
With elegant ebb and flow maneuvers, Cipa slides effortlessly through contemplative, wistful, uplifting and hopeful districts while maintaining a dreamy cinematic glow. It was an […]
Pjusk / Sleep Orchestra :: Drowning in the Sky (Dronarivm)
Together, Pjusk and Sleep Orchestra evoke a chilly and endless, empty silence, broken only by wind whipping up new snow on the pack ice and the […]
Poppy Ackroyd + Lumen :: Escapement Visualised (Denovali)
“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly […]
Vetrophonia :: Kurutta Ippeiji (Zhelezobeton Film)
While deftly flirting with Japonism and sometimes quite literal in reflecting the images on the screen, their expressive sensitivity instills the images with the strong storyline it […]
DENOVALI SWINGFEST 2014 :: 26 tracks free download festival sampler
Denovali Swingfest will be returning to its home edition in the city of Essen/Germany with a 4-day-festival in the first weekend of October 2014 featuring […]
Unland :: Unland (Self-Released)
Ritualistic, eclectic, mystical, beautiful. Unland is the project of Germany-based Jonas Meyer (piano/fx), Christian Grothe (guitar/fx/sampler) and Shabnam Parvaresh (clarinet). The concept: “to come together […]
















