All in all, a very good introduction to Eighth Tower’s substantial catalog for lovers of deep electronic sound art. Quite recommended while reading Margaret Murray’s acclaimed history of European witchcraft.
Tag: Sound Art
V/A :: Én Stemme – Danish Eurorack Compilation Vol.1 (Vicious)
Én Stemme succeeds because the constraint actually does the work it was designed to do. Ten artists, one oscillator each, and the result isn’t ten variations on a theme—it’s ten distinct voices proving that limitation, handled with enough curiosity, produces more individuality than freedom usually does.
[2View] Masaya Kato :: Glass Anthimeria, SAVVAS METAXAS :: Magnetic Loops IV (Line)
Two albums, two deeply immersive worlds, where restraint, process, and patience become the most powerful instruments of all.
Everyday Dust :: Assemblance X Sessions (Dustopian Frequencies)
The sounds here are not just the contemporary musique concrète we’ve all come to know and love from Everyday Dust, but musique métaphysique. It’s earthy, its rooted, its physical powerful when blaring through the headphones or speakers and subwoofer, but it contains the ever necessary particles of dust that transport me to the otherworld every time I listen to music from this artist.
Graham Dunning :: Quern (Jollies)
Graham Dunning emerges with Quern (Jollies Records) from a period of academic research into sound and self-built instrumentation with a collection that feels both tactile and purposeful.
Vera V Almgren :: I Det Vassa Ljuset (Istid)
Mastered and recorded at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS) in Stockholm between 2024 and 2026, I Det Vassa Ljuset is based on close-miking of organic materials such as wood, metal, stone, and glass. These recordings have then been processed and transformed into software instruments that can be played live. Released on her own label Istid Records, I Det Vassa Ljuset is available digitally and on cassette.
Moonphase :: Dark Assembly (Petroglyph)
Dark Assembly is at once cold, organic, desolate, and turbulent. The album unfolds like a powerful ascending electronic ritual, shrouded in a vertiginous blackened aura where cinematic tension and spiritual desolation coexist in fascinating balance.
FAX :: Escala (DISQ AN)
A delicate undertaking masterfully formed. It rewards any patience with a desire for repeated listening that reveals innate deeper layers of finer detail and craft. With its fractured yet entirely cohesive palette, FAX has crafted a work that is mature, cerebral, and quietly extra-ordinary.
aus + The Humble Bee :: Chalybeate (FLAU)
Conceived during a month-long Autumn 2024 residency in the Onsen town of Ikaho, Chalybeate distills aus and The Humble Bee’s bath-born installation into a mineral-rich ambient work where listening becomes a bodily immersion, steeped in steam, stone and subterranean drift.
Kayla Painter :: Tectonic Particles (quiet details)
Kayla Painter’s Tectonic Particles delicately choreographs micro-worlds of sound—melding subtle melody, diverse timbre, and found sonic textures—into minimalist, immersive compositions that trace the small processes shaping the universe, from stardust to stalactites and seeds, with her technical mastery matched by a tactile, art-driven presentation.
yyate :: Société oblique (Perceptual Tapes)
French sound artist and audio collage sculptor yyate (aka Vincent Caylet) crafts Société oblique as a delicate collision of noise and ambient haze, weaving field recordings, fractured electronics, and ephemeral textures into hypnotic drift. Released on Perceptual Tapes, the album hovers between abstraction and intimacy, where microscopic sonic gestures and dissolving tones evoke both fragility and quiet transcendence.
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