Acts of Silence

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A Sound Enigma

VeDaKR’s Pred Osli, released on the always adventurous Haze netlabel, is an album after my own heart — field recordings as drones. The tracks sound as though their might have the slightest of processing, but I ...

Apr, 28 · in Album Review

This Was Not The Album I Thought It Was

A few days ago, I wrote about the importance of album covers in netlabel releases.  Kritchev vs. Ban’s Working Title is not one of these. The cover is very 1980s fanzine, but given that this was ...

Jan, 27 · in Album Review

Seeing Is Hearing

When C. Reider released his new album, Edge and Artifact, he wrote a blog post using only images to explain the process. In light of that, the following review will be all images as well. ...

Jan, 23 · in Album Review

Beauty Between Improvisation and Composition

The latest work by Carlos Edelmiro aka Otra Carpeta has the feeling of a 1980s EP, there is a natural split between the 5 tracks, 1 through 3 as Side A and tracks 4 and 5, ...

Jan, 23 · in Album Review

Imprecise Control Studies

At the beginning of the year, I came across reviews Aboombong’s latest two album on Recent Music Heroes and Disquiet. But it wasn’t the reviews that caught my attention, rather it was the glorious artwork ...

Jan, 22 · in Album Review

The Lizard King

J. Siemasko aka Schemawound has joined the Dystimbria experiment. Run by experimental musician C. Reider Dystimbria asks artists to discard “the safe, pastoral qualities of ambient and the macho posturing of noise for a more ...

Jan, 18 · in Album Review

The Jig-Saw Jazz

JD Zazie’s Naherholung Playtime (Absence of Wax) continues her redefinition of what a DJ is and how a DJ should sound. This short 15 minute release is an exploration of noise and field recordings through turntables ...

Jan, 14 · in Album Review,ccWomen

Making Something Out of Everything

A few days ago, David Bowie released a single which frankly is quite a horrible song. My twitter timeline was filled with giddy posts slobbering over Bowie and totally disregarding the pedantic music. As Mof Gimmers writes ...

Jan, 13 · in Album Review,ccWomen

Don’t Listen To This

What seems like ages ago, the world once once ruled by evil record companies whose executives were akin to leeches, parasites and moldy-old vampires. It was during this time of cocaine and speed that thousands ...

Jan, 03 · in Album Review

Resonant Slaps in the Face

Every manifestation of our life is accompanied by noise. The noise, therefore, is familiar to our ear, and has the power to conjure up life itself. - Lugi Russolo’s  L´Arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises) The Portuguese netlabel Enough ...

Jan, 02 · in Album Review

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