12″, Other Electricities, 2010 www.gultskra.com The cover art speaks for itself: A man – cocooned, floating and very much alone – drifts across an unimaginable void, its blackness infinite, its [ … ]
Category: Reviews
Comisario Hjuler & Madre Osa – Música Experimental
Cassette, Circuit Torçat, 2010 www.asylum-lunaticum.de Cassettes are back – yeah – and what a great revival it is. With the many kinds of media we can choose from, why would [ … ]
Yvat – Oar
3″ CD-R, Minor Label, 2006 www.yvat.com Clicks and pops. Somehow I feel instantly attracted to the addictive rhythms made up by tiny scraps of sound and Yvat knows how to [ … ]
The Prayer Tree – The Prayer Tree
CD, Hymen Records, 2010 www.myspace.com/theprayertree The Prayer Tree delivers a pleasant dose of well written downtempo electronica full of melancholy organs and smooth well written vocals. The project is a [ … ]
Ginormous – The Sound Of Love Impermanent
CD, Ant-Zen, 2010 www.thisisginormous.com Ginormous delivers a refreshing new album full of warm acoustic guitars and swirling IDM rhythms that will appeal to a broad audience from folk to electronic [ … ]
Asche – The Easter Island Phenomenon
CD, Ant-Zen, 2010 http://www.fich-art.com/ When the first Asche album I heard – “Distorted Disco” – was released in 2000 it was at the forefront of noisy industrial and it has [ … ]
V/A – Wrapped In The Guise Of My Friend (Covered Attrition) (Covered Attrition)
CD, Two Gods/Wax Trax II, 2009 www.attrition.co.uk This is a compilation displaying Attrition’s influence on the genres of darkwave, electronica and more. It is a well rounded compilation featuring artists [ … ]
Orfeo 5 – A Year on the Ice
CD, The Word Hoard, 2009 www.wordhoard.co.uk/orfeo5intro.htm Orpheo 5 (as in Orpheus – and five original founding members) is a jazz/experimental/electronica grouping from the UK. They formed in 2002 out of [ … ]
Snog – Last of the Great Romantics
CD, Hymen Records, 2010 www.myspace.com/snogtheband You could never accuse David Thrussel of following the herd. Staunchly anti-capitalist, anti-music industry, and more than willing to indulge his apparent love of god-knows-how-many [ … ]
Svartsinn – Elegies For The End
2CD, Cyclic Law, 2009 http://www.svartsinn.com/ The Norwegian musician Jan Roger Pettersen has been releasing dark ambient compositions under the name of Svartsinn for ten years now, and although the last [ … ]