Category Archives: Experimental
Depatterning & Delphine Dora ~ The Country Hospital
The house is flooded, the power is out and a baby is due any moment … this is the real-life story of the final Wist Records release, as dramatic as the tale behind The Country Hospital. Founded in 2009 by
Depatterning & Delphine Dora ~ The Country Hospital
The house is flooded, the power is out and a baby is due any moment … this is the real-life story of the final Wist Records release, as dramatic as the tale behind The Country Hospital. Founded in 2009 by
Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S.K. Ratkje ~ Collage
Collage is an apt name for an album that creates its own sonic world through field recordings, unusual instrumentation and vivid vocal experimentation. The team-up of Norwegian trio Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S.K. Ratkje began as an “impromptu concert” that
Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S.K. Ratkje ~ Collage
Collage is an apt name for an album that creates its own sonic world through field recordings, unusual instrumentation and vivid vocal experimentation. The team-up of Norwegian trio Erlend Apneseth Trio & Maja S.K. Ratkje began as an “impromptu concert” that
Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…
Matana Roberts is now twelve years into the Coin Coin project, one of the century’s most culturally important musical works. With Chapter Five: In the Garden…, the artist continues to stun. Chapter Five is audacious, confrontational, harrowing, mesmerizing, enrapturing and potentially transformational. One
Matana Roberts ~ Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden…
Matana Roberts is now twelve years into the Coin Coin project, one of the century’s most culturally important musical works. With Chapter Five: In the Garden…, the artist continues to stun. Chapter Five is audacious, confrontational, harrowing, mesmerizing, enrapturing and potentially transformational. One
Giuseppe Ielasi ~ Down On Darkened Meetings
Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks allow the listener to project whatever they’re feeling onto this music. And despite being informed that all sounds come from
Giuseppe Ielasi ~ Down On Darkened Meetings
Low key yet lyrical melodies balance on the cusp between accessible and weird, at turns mournful and celebratory. Untitled tracks allow the listener to project whatever they’re feeling onto this music. And despite being informed that all sounds come from
Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Experimental
This season’s experimental albums showcase an incredible wealth of sounds, including tap dancing, suitcases, buckets, scaffolding, woodblock, lemurs and a variety of homemade instruments. One album is based on the alphabet, while another is inspired by a series of glass
Fall Music Preview 2023 ~ Experimental
This season’s experimental albums showcase an incredible wealth of sounds, including tap dancing, suitcases, buckets, scaffolding, woodblock, lemurs and a variety of homemade instruments. One album is based on the alphabet, while another is inspired by a series of glass
Paavoharju ~ Yön mustia kukkia
Hearing new music from Paavoharju comes as an unexpected treat. The Finnish collective made a big splash with Yhä hämärää (2005) and Laulu laakson kukista (2008), both on Fonal Records, and the ascetic Christian brothers and their friends seemed ready to cross over to
Paavoharju ~ Yön mustia kukkia
Hearing new music from Paavoharju comes as an unexpected treat. The Finnish collective made a big splash with Yhä hämärää (2005) and Laulu laakson kukista (2008), both on Fonal Records, and the ascetic Christian brothers and their friends seemed ready to cross over to
Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other
Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated
Poor Isa ~ dissolution of the other
Since 2017, the record label Aspen Edities has been harboring a group of (mostly) Belgians who don’t seem to put much stake in “genre”. On the one hand, the label’s most recent release, a surging, nearly abrasive exploration of speaker-vibrated
Fire-Toolz ~ I am upset because I see something that is not there.
“We’ve lost nothing”, a floating text states within a simulated, 2000s-game-graphics brick building whose modernist layout spells Bauhaus 19th century industrial warehouse. In the video for “It Is Happening Again / Mantra-ing & Golgotha: Double-Bind (Prequel)” our camera-eye transitions seamlessly
Fire-Toolz ~ I am upset because I see something that is not there.
“We’ve lost nothing”, a floating text states within a simulated, 2000s-game-graphics brick building whose modernist layout spells Bauhaus 19th century industrial warehouse. In the video for “It Is Happening Again / Mantra-ing & Golgotha: Double-Bind (Prequel)” our camera-eye transitions seamlessly
a closer listen 