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SONIC EXPOSURE :: Vula Viel

Profiles 12/06/2015 by Nocturnal Ghost

“Recording and mixing was great fun, but it’s playing live that has taken this music out of Ghana and theory and into London and pumping […]

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Jaki Liebezeit & Holger Mertin :: Akşak (Staubgold)

Reviews 09/15/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Akşak is a drummers’ album for people who don’t like drummers’ albums. Many tracks are “just” percussion, but uncannily melodic—some angular, others flow like the river […]

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Maurice Louca :: Benhayyi Al-Baghbaghan (Salute the Parrot) (Nawa)

Reviews 03/07/2015 by Stephen Fruitman

Possessing a visionary take on mongrel electronica, Egyptian producer-arranger Maurice Louca brings sounds familiar to lovers of Middle Eastern musics and dervishes them off into […]

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SONIC EXPOSURE :: Daniel Herskedal

Profiles 02/11/2015 by Nocturnal Ghost

“People say to me I should make music for movies. I’m happy that’s what people think, because hopefully that means they listen carefully, and imagine […]

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Bombay Dub Orchestra :: Tales From The Grand Bazaar (Six Degrees)

Reviews 01/16/2014 by Nocturnal Ghost

BDO’s third album is a fine east meets west affair that shines with grace and individuality within genre districts flooded with sonic recycling. I have […]

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aMadoo :: Matsunoo Grand Shrine – Roumon LIVE (Somehow)

Reviews 04/22/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Playing at an eighth-century Shinto shrine in Kyoto, the musicians, led by Yuuji Hiromoto, first eye each other inquisitively, violin, muted trumpet, electronics, tabla, as […]

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