Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason: Music for Sólaris (presented by Barbican)
Solaris is a 1961 philosophical science fiction novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. Its “philosophical” aspect has …
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Interview with Daníel Bjarnason
It’s about time that you and Ben Frost collaborated on a project. Was it long in …
Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason
SÓLARIS (Bedroom Community)
Learning that Ben Frost and Daníel Bjarnason decided to work together on a project has already …
Headphone Commute’s Best of 2013
And just like that, another year has gone by… This one seemed particularly like a rapid …
Why Barbican is at the top of my list…
Having moved from New York to London a year ago, I’ve been amazed at the difference …
Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Lambert, Manos Milonakis and Niklas Paschburg
Iceland Symphony Orchestra Recurrence This morning I’m waking up with a gorgeous contemporary classical release by …
Valgeir Sigurðsson
Dissonance (Bedroom Community)
Valgeir Sigurðsson may not be a widely recognizable name among the purveyors of ambient, experimental, and …
Tilman Robinson
Deer Heart (Hobbledehoy Record Co)
It is almost inevitable that sometime during this review I would bring up names like Ben Frost, …
Interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir
I spend a lot of time dreaming internally on the music at the initial stages of …
Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Aerial (Deutsche Grammophon)
Samples and samplers are getting so sophisticated that the casual listener might not even distinguish sampled …