Almost Transparent Blue
Rick Reed / Keith Rowe / Bill Thompson Shifting Currents RUSSIA MIKROTON CD 17 / 18 (2013) It took me a while to find the right time for this double disc – disc one, an unindexed 54 minutes and a...
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Mark Cetilia {Impact + Aftermath} USA ESTUARY LTD. EST 5002 CD (2013) God, that’s quiet. I’ve heard some quiet albums, but that’s brave how quiet this disc starts. It builds from nothing to distant...
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Angélica Castelló Sonic Blue AUSTRIA INTERSTELAR RECORDS INT037 LP (2015) Atmosphere sculptor and would-be oceanographer Angélica Castelló wields ‘Subgreatbass Paetzold Recorder’, electronics, radios...
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Evocative radiophonic atmospheres, some of them with a maritime flavour, abound on Somewhere A Voice Is Calling. The team of Absolute Value Of Noise, Anna Friz and Glenn Gear first collaborated for...
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Graham Dunning is an astonishingly accomplished multi-media artist based in London…just a quick run through his website describing the projects he’s been involved in is an exhausting experience, and I...
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From Jason Kahn, a cassette representing two more episodes from his 2012 tour where he was treating audiences in UK and Europe to a barrage of synth-and-radio noise. Thirty Seconds Over (aude1003)...
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From 12th March 2015, one of the latest missives from the excellent LF Records micro label of obscure noise. I’m currently unable to tell you anything about Mouth Worker, but the album Rose Of The...
View ArticleBird on a Wire
Radio Tweet (CREATIVE SOURCES RECORDINGS CS 335 CD) sees two talented German performatrices making some lively improvised sounds together in the studio in Hamburg…Birgit Uhler is no stranger to the...
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Last heard from Idea Fire Company with their 2013 offering, Postcards; from November 2015, we have their new long-player Lost At Sea (RECITAL THIRTEEN). The title is another in the ongoing series of...
View ArticleHearing Voices
We are quite keen on Star Turbine, the duo of Sindre Bjerga and Claus Poulsen, whom we last heard on their album for Attenuation Circuit which came out in late 2013. Here’s another six tracks of their...
View ArticleLe Temple Du Rock
Very impressed with Ein Geisteskranker Als Künstler 1 (RONDA rnd11), an old 2009 release from Sébastien Borgo, performing solo under his Ogrob guise. Here are 14 experiments made using guitars,...
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On the split LP FYLP 1037 from Fylkingen Records, we hear one of the last team-ups between Lars Åkerlund and Zbigniew Karkowski, two past masters of death-dealing noise. Between 2012 and 2016, you...
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Buried treasure from Simon Balestrazzi, everyone’s favourite Italian prince of dark occult noise music…his Early Recordings (1979-1982) (AZOTH rebis 004) contains nine cuts of primo vintage...
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Another maximal sound-art item from Jim Haynes. Flammable Materials From Foreign Lands (ELEVATOR BATH eeaoa45) is another output from his Estonian residency, a collaborative “crossover” situation set...
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Masayuki Imanishi’s Tone (ini.itu #1502) is a wonderful LP of minimal gestures…he’s doing things with radio, field recordings and paper which I can’t understand, yet they are supremely fascinating....
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From Bristol’s LF Records, we have Mouth Worker or Mouthworker, the fellow behind 2015’s Rose Of The Desert and a remixes record with Robert Ridley-Shackleton. His method is to mix spoken word and...
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Official product image from label website We have to hand it to Scott Foust, who persists with his musical projects while at the same time lamenting the diminishing audience interest…lately even his...
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Superb team-up by a couple of Japanese “grand masters” of free playing and sound art, if we can use such hyperbolic terms without getting too gushy…the album Ke I Te Ki (ROOM 40 RM499) was recorded by...
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Last heard from Steven Ball with his 2017 album Subsongs, a series of disaffected glimpses at modern urban alienation drawing on all sorts of bitter experiences…the existential pain continues on...
View ArticleThe Power of a Signal
Excellent set of well-crafted ambient hazoid music with field recordings and shortwave radio samples from Aperus...this is Brian McWilliams from Santa Fe in New Mexico, and Archaic Signal (GEOPHONIC...
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