For all the prevailing visceral, startling and bleak tenor, there are passages where crumbling timbres recede into shimmering suspension—a kind of calm, a glimpse perhaps […]
Tag: Soundscape
V/A :: Enter the Plague (MinimalRome)
MinimalRome are starting 2015 like they ended 2014, with some absorbing and atmospheric electronic music. These machine musicians have carved out an album of intense […]
Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello :: Fable (Dragon’s Eye)
Tempered field recordings and instrumental detritus (Vitiello) meet peculiar modular tweaks and harmonized electronic efflatus (English) to create a collage commingling a widely sourced tonal palette, […]
Francesco Giannico & Porya Hatami :: Double review (Time Released Sound)
Favourite boutique-artisan label is back bearing time released sounds from the underground via Francesco Giannico and music for airports from Porya Hatami. Francesco Giannico recorded Rome’s metro—lines “B” […]
Some Truths :: Bliss Abyss (We Can Elude Control)
These tracks are laden with beauty and emotion, pulsing with a quiet hopefulness, ruminating with that which is difficult to tie down in words. In […]
The Isolator :: Distance EP (Lockertmatik)
The Isolator weaves rich harmonies, diverting melodies and developing complex soundscapes. It’s always satisfying to return to a label. I covered Lockertmatik a couple of […]
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 […]
LPF12 :: Whiteout.4. (Self Released)
Brilliantly executed, deliciously absorbing with a pretty convincing electronic orchestration which sometimes reach ecstatic refinement thanks to deep tonal undulating vibes and experimental ornamentations. Highly […]
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