Archive for July, 2015
Review: Gurun Gurun – Kon B
Bedtime song valiantly persists amidst the thickening haunt of improvisatory ghosts.
Interview: MacGillivray
Upon the release of her new record Once Upon A Dirty Ear, MacGillivray discusses Highlandness, Eager Doom and sound drowning itself.
Review: Michael Vincent Waller – The South Shore
Limelit intimacy and contemplation; a two-disc set of chamber works by the American composer.
Review: Phil Minton – A Doughnut’s End
Distress as phlegm, wheeze and sharp breath, in a new set of vocal improvisations.
Review: B O L T – ( 0 3 )
Bodily excavation for bass guitars, grim and resolute.
Review: AU79 – Opiłki i Makrostruktury
Toxic belches and dumpster rhythms – dance music assembled from discarded electronic waste.
Review: Western Skies Motel – Prism
Solo classical guitar, whose form and behaviour changes under the lens of repetition.
Review: Alex Ward Quintet – Glass Shelves And Floor
Intention en masse and the tease of premeditation: an improvised (?) collaboration between double bass, cello, clarinet and saxophone.
Review: Aires & Rui P. Andrade – Pânico-Ambiente
Two vivid harsh noise pieces: one as rainfall, the other as water submersion.
Review: Samogonka – The Importance Of Being Wasted
The violent twitches of incubation and inevitable death.