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Promises is an album I never would’ve imagined to have been created, yet here I am talking about it. British producer Sam Shepherd, aka Floating Points, and experimental jazz legend Pharoah Sanders coming together to create a collaborative ambient album seems like something of a strange dream. But this is no dream. Shepherd wrote the […]
Read More Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders : PromisesThe music of Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk is both reminiscent of their individual works and completely it’s own intimate beast. Both musicians are adept, prodigious even, in the studio. The studio is an extension of themselves; an instrument to be used much like a synthesizer, guitar, or sequencer. They not only build music, but […]
Read More Ulrich Schnauss and Jonas Munk Are In “Perpetual Motion”; ‘Eight Fragments Of An Illusion’ Out 4/23Dark Fidelty Hi Fi mastermind Rick Jones makes the kind of electronic music that tows the line between dance music and the feeling of an oncoming nervous breakdown. There’s both a manic push and a foreboding sense of calm that seem to swirl together on his albums. His latest for record label Bricolage called Beautiful […]
Read More Dark Fidelity Hi Fi : Beautiful FragmentsOn the latest from Fragile X, the windswept and cavernous Between Worlds, musician/producer J. Gorecki goes deep into cosmic soundscapes and ambient vibes. Listening to this album is like deep-diving into the universe’s psyche. The sound of existential static at the end of some galactic phone line that seemingly reaches to and past infinity. Between […]
Read More Fragile X : Between WorldsSo in case you didn’t have any Friday plans, I’ve got a couple options for you. First, you can just go home after work, throw a Red Baron in the oven, drop a couple PBRs in the freezer so they get nice and cold, and then plop on that rickety La-Z-Boy and watch whatever pointless […]
Read More Jan Borré Performs ‘Grayson’ LiveGary Dimes, aka All Of Them Witches, has quietly released The House of Shadows, a folk horror-inspired EP of quiet interludes and Gothic darkness that may well be the last from All Of Them Witches. All good things come to an end, and The House of Shadows is a great way to go out. Over […]
Read More All Of Them Witches : The House of ShadowsDrew Mulholland’s Messer’s Circulating Library, the latest release from Tom McDowell’s Library of the Occult record label, is quite unlike anything that’s come from the label. Melodic-driven songs are replaced by winding, drone-driven long form works that sound and feel more like traveling through dimensions and realities. Industrial swirls and resonating machinations give the impression […]
Read More Drew Mulholland : Messer’s Circulating LibraryWhilst in the midst of being down and out with Covid-19 back in November I watched a lot of movies. It was a great way to pass the time and took my mind off of feeling terrible. One of the movies I watched was Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House from 1977. It was one of those movies […]
Read More Alone 1980 : Lost Cues IIThe new collaborative LP Concrete Island by The Heartwood Institute and Hawksmoor is named and inspired by the 1974 novel by J.G. Ballard. Ballard set the standard when it came to the dystopian novel, having written High-Rise, Crash, The Drowned World, The Atrocity Exhibition and The Unlimited Dream Company to name but a few. His […]
Read More The Heartwood Institute & Hawksmoor : Concrete IslandStephen James Buckley, aka Polypores, makes electronic music that sits just on the cusp of chaos. He builds synthetic worlds and narratives with the modular synth, an unpredictable machine that while it may never be tamed completely it can be controlled just enough to blow open minds. The unpredictability and exploratory nature of the instrument […]
Read More “Connection With The Machine” : The Wired World of Polypores’ Stephen James Buckley