Category Archives: Experimental
kyïvite ~ broadcast
Earlier this year, we covered the first iteration of kyïvite‘s broadcast, which has since inspired two more broadcasts and attracted the attention of the staalplaat label. The Amsterdam imprint has just released all three podcasts as a standalone album, including a
kyïvite ~ broadcast
Earlier this year, we covered the first iteration of kyïvite‘s broadcast, which has since inspired two more broadcasts and attracted the attention of the staalplaat label. The Amsterdam imprint has just released all three podcasts as a standalone album, including a
Francesco Pellegrino ~ Wartime Monk
Francesco Pellegrino’s Wartime Monk emerges from a space where abstraction can no longer remain insulated from reality. Framed by the return of war as both lived condition and conceptual rupture, the album translates this pressure into a physical language: sound
Francesco Pellegrino ~ Wartime Monk
Francesco Pellegrino’s Wartime Monk emerges from a space where abstraction can no longer remain insulated from reality. Framed by the return of war as both lived condition and conceptual rupture, the album translates this pressure into a physical language: sound
Nicolas Remondino ~ Hìeratico
On Hìeratico, Nicolas Remondino approaches sound as both matter and invocation, shaping an album that exists in a state of charged duality—light and darkness, presence and absence, the sacred and the material. Contrasting tendencies are constantly at play, balancing control
Nicolas Remondino ~ Hìeratico
On Hìeratico, Nicolas Remondino approaches sound as both matter and invocation, shaping an album that exists in a state of charged duality—light and darkness, presence and absence, the sacred and the material. Contrasting tendencies are constantly at play, balancing control
Christina Vantzou ~ The Reintegration of the Ear
Due to tariffs, I was unable to obtain an ear, so I’m a bit jealous of the ten fortunate people who are each proud owners of a stainless steel votive ear, made in Greece as a tactile representation of the
Christina Vantzou ~ The Reintegration of the Ear
Due to tariffs, I was unable to obtain an ear, so I’m a bit jealous of the ten fortunate people who are each proud owners of a stainless steel votive ear, made in Greece as a tactile representation of the
If Strangers ~ Kookooland – with an interview with sTia [CES Records]
The fourth iteration of the If Strangers project continues to refine a methodology that has, since its inception during pandemic lockdown pedagogy at the CES school in Tbilisi, treated collaboration less as dialogue than as circulation. Tracks are not so
If Strangers ~ Kookooland – with an interview with sTia [CES Records]
The fourth iteration of the If Strangers project continues to refine a methodology that has, since its inception during pandemic lockdown pedagogy at the CES school in Tbilisi, treated collaboration less as dialogue than as circulation. Tracks are not so
FH HF – Rewind / Hey, Can I Pick Your Ears?
There’s something deliberately unstable at the core of Rewind by the Georgian artist FH HF. It resists the fixed shape of an album, instead unfolding as what the artist herself calls a “blindly intuitive collage”—a work in flux, driven less
FH HF – Rewind / Hey, Can I Pick Your Ears?
There’s something deliberately unstable at the core of Rewind by the Georgian artist FH HF. It resists the fixed shape of an album, instead unfolding as what the artist herself calls a “blindly intuitive collage”—a work in flux, driven less
Canes Of Karabakh ~ S/T
There is a deliberate restraint that feels ethical as much as aesthetic in Canes of Karabakh. The Polish trio of Stanisław Matys (duduk), Olgierd Dokalski (flugelhorn, SFX), and Paweł Bartnik (electronics) approach the Armenian duduk not as repertoire to be
Canes Of Karabakh ~ S/T
There is a deliberate restraint that feels ethical as much as aesthetic in Canes of Karabakh. The Polish trio of Stanisław Matys (duduk), Olgierd Dokalski (flugelhorn, SFX), and Paweł Bartnik (electronics) approach the Armenian duduk not as repertoire to be
Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble ~ A Moment of Yet
We love the name of the Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble, but even more, we love the fact that it actually exists. There’s nothing normal about this ensemble, save for the fact that it comes from Normal, Illinois. The 2000-strong
Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble ~ A Moment of Yet
We love the name of the Normal Community High School Experimental Ensemble, but even more, we love the fact that it actually exists. There’s nothing normal about this ensemble, save for the fact that it comes from Normal, Illinois. The 2000-strong
a closer listen 