Arovane * Arovane/Emho * Emho
Albums by Arovane (Uwe Zahn) and EMHO ( Emmanuel Hourquet) are linked by a split album of the same artists.
Tag: cassette
Offthesky * R Beny
Surprising and hardly classifiable release by Jason ‘Offthesky’ Corder plus acoustic ensemble *** R Beny demonstrates what the opposite of decay sounds like.
Kleefstra/Bakker/Kleefstra (x3) * Tsjinlûd
2016 has been a relatively quiet year for the Kleefstra Brothers – nucleus of many different projects of ambient improv and Frisian poetry.
Until recently when suddenly three albums by Kleefstra / Bakker / Kleefstra were released almost simultaneously, as well as theTsjinlûd multimedia project celebrating the Frisian culture in words, pictures, drawings and music.
The Volume Settings Folder – Ivan Hoe and Other Tales
From the very first minutes of “Ivan Hoe and Other Tales“, you will realise that this is not gonna be like one of your average atmospheric drone albums.
Starting with a spoken voice recording, taken “from old tape cassettes for English summer homeworks” and telling tales about the ancient Saxons from Sherwood Forest, the album shifts into “a journey into an almost cold, dark and ‘aseptic’ forest, ending with a come-back to a warm home”.
Enrico Coniglio+Under the Snow – Dialogue One
I first learned about Enrico Coniglio on the “Underwater Noises” compilation and from there found his fascinating “Salicornie (Topofonie Vol. 2)”, dedicated to the city of Venice.
Compared to “Salicornie”, this latest release, “Dialogue One” is quite different: one hour of abstract soundscapes and mutually attracting opposites.
“Dialogue One” is a ‘split’ project with Silentes label artists Under the Snow (Stefano Gentile (guitar, field recordings) and Gianluca Favaron (field recordings, processing)).
Kyle Bobby Dunn – Pour Les Octaves
Personally, I’m not particular fond of analog storage media. In fact I’m glad we could leave these behind us and go digital.
But since digital music seems to be available anytime, anyplace and anywhere, there’s a counter-trend of releasing music in a storage format that can not be easily copied – and thus appeals to collectors especially.
Part of me can understand that when I hold an oldfashioned vinyl album cover, but I cannot really understand why anyone would prefer to release his music on audio–cassette only.
Still, there are quite some cassettelabels releasing music nowadays.
One of these is Peasant Magik, that recently released a 30 minute (C30) two track casette by Kyle Bobby Dunn, called Pour les Octaves.