Archive for November, 2016
Review: Krotz Struder – 15 Dickinson Songs
15 hushed, fingerplucked adaptions of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
Review: Danny Clay – Stills
Tape loops of pianos and strings, dissolving into the act of over-cherishing.
Live: Autechre + Russell Haswell @ Royal Festival Hall in London, 25/11/2016
Champagne and skyscraper foundations.
Interview: The Delphic Wristwatch
Trevor Thornton discusses his podcasted enactment of serendipitous discovery.
Review: Teruyuki Nobuchika – Still Air
Ambient orchestration. The tales of a mind in transit to elsewhere.
Review: Unruly Milk – Spilaggges
A record scavenged from lo-fi corrosion and wonky recordings, courtesy of Joe Thompson (Hey Colossus, Henry Blacker) and Kek (Hacker Farm, Ice Bird Spiral).
Review: Tasos Stamou – Koura
Extended drones for zither and chord organ. An eternally evolving effort to understand.
Review: Benjamin Nelson – First
A negotiation between gradual adjustment and perceptual reframing.
Review: Blank Disc Trio + Ex You – Split
Two different improvisatory odes to the art of almost, courtesy of Russia’s spina!rec.
Review: Solar Maximum: Soundtrack Event I: Uranian Fire
Bass guitars, drum machines, repetition. Rock ‘n’ roll stripped from the clutter of semantics and direction.