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‘t Geruis slowly dances on moss beds *** VÍZ (Réka Csiszér) presents her requiem for (her Transsylvanian) ancestral origins.
‘t Geruis slowly dances on moss beds *** VÍZ (Réka Csiszér) presents her requiem for (her Transsylvanian) ancestral origins.
The COVID-19 lockdown obviously triggered a lot of online collaborations – which were often also thematically related to the worldwide crisis. But few – if not none – of them are as surprising as Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw’s Sunrise.
Noisy yet subtle soundscapes by The [Law-Rah] Collective (Martijn Pieck and Bauke van der Wal) and Transtilla (Romke Kleefstra and Anne-Chris Bakker).
Offthesky‘s latest is album is an appropriate celebration of his 50th release
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Tobias Hellkvist‘s short but striking Kaskelot EP is now re-released as a full album including additional make-over remixes
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Thismorphia is a collection of ‘illbient wordcore’ collaborations of Rasalasad with artists like Jarboe, Merzbow, Von Magnet (amongst others)
Zauberberg is a fascinating ambient symphony by Kassel Jaeger, Stephan Mathieu and Akira Rabelais, inspired by Thomas Mann’s book and Debussy’s music.
Stephan Mathieu also mastered Kevin Verwijmeren’s new album, ‘Those Glorious Heights’.
Also: Tobias Hellkvist’s full length album Vesterhavet, and an EP-trilogy from Tomoro Nozaki.
Could this be a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music?
In fact, it really ís machine music!
Remember ‘Tron’?
I guess this is what Kevin Flynn must’ve felt like.
Complex times breed complex albums.
A sign of the times, maybe.
Not unlike Matthew Colling’s album mentioned before, Lawrence English‘s new album “The Wilderness of Mirrors“ presents a “tectonic auditory offering, an unrelenting passage of colliding waves of harmony and dynamic live instrumentation”.
Over three years since the release of his impressing debut album ‘Safn 2006-2009‘ (which collected some of his earlier solo work), Bjarni Gunnarsson (from Reykjavik, also known as one half of Einóma) presents the second full album release under his own name.
The beautiful package of ‘Processes & Potentials‘ contains 7 colorful inlays, one for the cover and one for each of the six different tracks of this album.
Just like he did on ‘Safn’, Bjarni chooses his musical position wilfully, creating soundscapes that are remarkably different from most in current ambient/electronic music.
Berber Ox is David Rutledge: a Sydney based radio-producer who, according to the sparse information available, “makes music that crosses genres such as Experimental, Drone, Dark Ambient, Power Electronics and Post Industrial often in the same track.”
With a description like that, you at least you have some indication of what to expect when listening to “Limiter“. And that’s a good thing, because you’d better be prepared!