Category Archives: Drone
Yodok ~ IIII
Norway’s Yodok have swiftly followed up The Sky Flashes, The Great Sea Yearns, which made one of our year-end genre lists of 2015’s stand-out releases, with another leviathan of an LP. The band has since evolved (or devolved), however, dispensing
Yodok ~ IIII
Norway’s Yodok have swiftly followed up The Sky Flashes, The Great Sea Yearns, which made one of our year-end genre lists of 2015’s stand-out releases, with another leviathan of an LP. The band has since evolved (or devolved), however, dispensing
Tepe Gawra ~ A Rise in the Chalcolithic
A Rise In The Chalcolithic seems like an awakening, and as such is perfect for the launch of a new label. Epic and immersive, the album has an ambience that feels huge, legendary and timeless. The oversized CD jewel box
Tepe Gawra ~ A Rise in the Chalcolithic
A Rise In The Chalcolithic seems like an awakening, and as such is perfect for the launch of a new label. Epic and immersive, the album has an ambience that feels huge, legendary and timeless. The oversized CD jewel box
EUS ~ Luminar
Luminar is a wide, yawning gulf shrouded by mists of uncertainty and self-doubt. It spirals the listener into a kind of free fall, because its intense music challenges the mind on its associated, long-held beliefs. Luminar is rooted in the problems that
EUS ~ Luminar
Luminar is a wide, yawning gulf shrouded by mists of uncertainty and self-doubt. It spirals the listener into a kind of free fall, because its intense music challenges the mind on its associated, long-held beliefs. Luminar is rooted in the problems that
Ennio Mazzon ~ Pavement Narrows
Sound artist Ennio Mazzon‘s full-length follow-up to Xuan is a different beast, one that shimmers like a spaceship instead of clanking like a factory floor. The drama remains intact, although the form has changed: a series of tracks in place of a single
Ennio Mazzon ~ Pavement Narrows
Sound artist Ennio Mazzon‘s full-length follow-up to Xuan is a different beast, one that shimmers like a spaceship instead of clanking like a factory floor. The drama remains intact, although the form has changed: a series of tracks in place of a single
Paul Jebanasam ~ Continuum
Ever since he started recording under his own name, Paul Jebanasam has been investigating the boundaries of the sacred, beginning with church music (2011’s Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist) and proceeding to something more tonally varied yet equally sacred
Paul Jebanasam ~ Continuum
Ever since he started recording under his own name, Paul Jebanasam has been investigating the boundaries of the sacred, beginning with church music (2011’s Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist) and proceeding to something more tonally varied yet equally sacred
Chemiefaserwerk ~ Trajet
Trajet (also known as blue eighteen) is the latest transmission from Blue Tapes, which has been quietly building a name for itself over the past few years with a small batch of quality releases. Meanwhile, it’s at least the tenth release (according to
Chemiefaserwerk ~ Trajet
Trajet (also known as blue eighteen) is the latest transmission from Blue Tapes, which has been quietly building a name for itself over the past few years with a small batch of quality releases. Meanwhile, it’s at least the tenth release (according to
Stephen O’Malley ~ Eternelle Idole
Eternelle Idole (‘Eternal Idol’) is the soundtrack composed by Stephen O’Malley for a choreographic piece of the same name created by artist Gisèle Vienne, and which involves an actor and an artistic ice-skater. I have yet to see the piece
Stephen O’Malley ~ Eternelle Idole
Eternelle Idole (‘Eternal Idol’) is the soundtrack composed by Stephen O’Malley for a choreographic piece of the same name created by artist Gisèle Vienne, and which involves an actor and an artistic ice-skater. I have yet to see the piece
Zalhietzli & Proud/Father ~ Split
Noise. Noise. Noise. Scratching, wrapping, clicking, breathing all around. Maybe it’s the sound of some heavily processed field recording. Maybe it’s the sound of hell, or maybe it was recorded inside some distant alien factory on some far-off planet on the
Zalhietzli & Proud/Father ~ Split
Noise. Noise. Noise. Scratching, wrapping, clicking, breathing all around. Maybe it’s the sound of some heavily processed field recording. Maybe it’s the sound of hell, or maybe it was recorded inside some distant alien factory on some far-off planet on the
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