honest words on honest music
Immolate Yourself
A RECITAL for Telefon Tel Aviv’s monumental album from 2009.
… hyper-modern sound design and smoky nocturnal emotion…
In the studio with Resina
A Warsaw-based cellist talks about how she started her career, her studio set up, favourite gear and compositional process
Moon
A RECITAL for Clint Mansell’s soundtrack for Duncan Jones’s film
… a story of celestial loneliness… and distant longing…
Radioland
A RECITAL for a reissue of a newly remastered classic by Stephan Mathieu
… macroscopic sounds fusing together into a grandiose orchestra…
Interview with OKADA
Gregory Pappas talks about the darkness, creation, and acceptance of his latest record, Life is but an Empty Dream currently out on n5MD
In the studio with Bersarin Quartett
“When I was 11 years old I made music with a C-64 and a Yamaha PSR-keyboard. I was fascinated by the output of the Amiga demoscene those days and I was totally mesmerized by the electronic music…”
In the studio with Ben Chatwin
“I became interested in ways of processing acoustic instruments […] sending the recordings into my modular synth where I could mess with time and space…”
Recomposed By Peter Gregson
… a reimagining of Bach’s too often mathematical progressions throughout time into another yet unglimpsed, unheard dimension…
In the studio with Jonas Munk
Visit with the Denmark based musician behind the Manual moniker, and his collaboration with Jason Kolb as the Billow Observatory
Boards of Canada
Geogaddi is a record for some sort of trial-by-fire, a claustrophobic, twisting journey that takes you into some pretty dark experiences before you reach the open air again.
Whitelabrecs Special : Glåsbird, Anthéne and Sven Laux
A trio of releases from a limited edition label
S S S S, Sana Obruent, and Ebauche
Some very fresh and much eclectic sounds for your ears in this ⟪ REW | FF ⟫ entry
Afenginn
‘Ivin’ (The Doubt)
“… like the gears in a clock the parallel themes intersect at points, creating contracted dissonance or lifting consonance…”
Stavros Gasparatos
Rage Park (Inner Ear)
What would happen if you let yourself lose control, break out, without any repercussions?
This imaginary soundtrack from a Greek composer and sound artist attempts to let out all the rage…
… vast, often desolate, seemingly unending…
Marek Kamiński, Luke Howard, and Andrea Belfi
“… the fragile felted piano keys, the light brushing of the bow on the cello strings, the shuffling cracklings of the field recordings that paint a sombre atmosphere within the cinematic space…”
Valiska, Gavin Miller & Field Lines Cartographer, and Zahn | Hatami | McClure
“Eight. Two. One. The mysterious numbers ring out from the shortwave radio stations…”
A selection of favourites from this composer (and a member of From The Mouth Of The Sun)
Ben Chatwin
Coruscate
… I expressed gaze, light and darkness, sparkle through the microscope in this video…
Daigo Hanada
Under The Starry Sky
An exclusive premiere of a Super 8 film by Adrian Cousin from an upcoming Ouka EP
“I tend to become quite obsessed with the piece, it just keeps on playing and shifting in my head until I feel I have understood its shape and where I want it to go…”
Rafael Anton Irisarri
Solastalgia (Room40)
… sublimation that dwells in states of transition and becoming…
For fans of dense post-ambient textures, dark soundscapes, and blissful drone
Prolific Dutch musician (from Rotterdam) lets us in on his process…
Deaf Center
Low Distance (Sonic Pieces)
… a welcome return replete with beauty, mystery and uncertainty…
Highly recommended for fans of reductionist pianism, isolationist ambience, coarse minimalism and granular spaciousness!
Michel Banabila, Louis Sterling, and Marty Hicks
Some absolutely gorgeous music from Holland, UK, and Japan… Don’t miss this!
Ô Lake, Richard Luke, and Alex Kozobolis
A look at some beautiful solo piano pieces…
A live performance captured at Daylight Music (hosted by the Union Chapel in London).
In the studio with Disasterpeace
Take a peek inside Richard Vreeland studio
12k Special
Stephen Vitiello & Taylor Deupree, Corey Fuller, M. Grig
The latest goodies from 12k
Tim Hecker
Anoyon (Kranky / Sunblind)
“Hecker’s processing moves in veiled ways, soft refractions and whispered shrouds […] evoking a sense of vaulted space, temples at dawn, shredded silk fluttering in the rafters…”
The Phonometrician
If I Died Tonight
… what memories would sound like if they were captured through sound…
Kuba Kapsa
Supersonic Moth (Denovali)
… a musical realization of a specific trait in human existence…
OKADA
Life is but an Empty Dream (n5MD)
… a need, a yearning, and an ache, that percolates to the surface…
The next chapter in OKADA’s never-ending multi-layered unfolding story
GLÖWR means miner in Welsh and this project is an exploration of the harshness and contrasts at the heart of a life lived underground.
Richard Skelton, Arovane + Porya Hatami, and Paul Prudence
… organic places, synthetic spaces, and textural sound design…
Peter Sandberg
Motion (Phases)
… falling in love with music is easy. Writing about such music is hard…
Sebastian Plano
Verve (Mercury KX)
Music isn’t just about sound;
The tone and phrasing are critical when it comes to writing music
A new modern classical favourite on Mercury KX
… a love letter to transience, fragility and analogue machines…
Julia Kent
Temporal (Leaf)
… plaintive cello lines floating over the metronomic rhythms [which] echo the passage of time…
A modern-classical weather forecast, for fans of cello and warm summer storms…
Sean Curtis Patrick & Scott Campbell
Remembrances
Ruined photos with colours that smeared into beautiful abstractions…
Skee Mask
Compro (Ilian Tape)
The rhythm of a forgotten era gently glitches through the layers of effects […] The music’s beautiful, astute, and most of all, it is melodic.
One of the gems of electronica from 2018 – not to be missed!
“With some albums, you realize within a few seconds that here you have come across something really special…”
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Fade To Grey (A Strangely Isolated Place)
… on the isolation of individuals using (and often abusing) technology as a means of escapism…
Dennis Huddleston explores the outer reaches of our reality, “where social media has become a weak substitute for human interaction.“
Some honest thoughts on integration of music into your daily practice