Archive for January, 2012
Review: Will Long – Rosy Reflections
Soft ambient emissions in this sold out cassette edition from Avant Archive.
Review: John Wiese – Seven of Wands
Claustrophobic noise collages from an elusive LA sound artist.
Review: He Died While Hunting – We Used To Dream Awake
Playfully gentle indie pop from Belgium, released on Tripostal and Totokoko.
Interview: Eli Keszler
The NY composer/multi-instrumentalist provides an insight into his “Cold Pin” installation – in which piano strings are placed along walls and set into vibratory life through motorised devices – ahead of his performance at PAN Festival at Cafe Oto this week.
Review: The Beautiful Schizophonic + Yui Onodera – Night Blossom
Night time dreamscapes of space and nature are brought to life by this three-piece ambient collective.
Review: Eyvind Kang – The Narrow Garden
Vibrant emotional contrasts rise up from within Baroque, Middle Eastern and Classical influences in Kang’s new work on Ipecac.
Review: Kleefstra + Pruiksma + Kleefstra – Deislieper
Three Dutch improvisers lay poised in a state of quiet, in a new release on Hibernate.
Review: Josh Preston – Exchanges 1-4
A brief EP of cold mechanism and communicative electronics, laced with the lightest essence of organic warmth.
Review: Eli Keszler – Cold Pin
Top-notch installation work from the New York composer and artist.
Review: My Cat is an Alien – Living on the Invisible Line
The Opalio brothers retreat once more to their Alien Zone in the Western Alps to produce a work of contemplative acoustic fingerpicking and dazzling synthesiser kaleidoscopes.