Category Archives: Experimental
Lea Bertucci ~ Resonance Shapes
A new record store (Rough Trade) just opened in NYC, and this is exactly the sort of new record one might hope to discover in the front racks: intricate, creative, pleasing to the eye and ear. The Coke bottle vinyl
Lea Bertucci ~ Resonance Shapes
A new record store (Rough Trade) just opened in NYC, and this is exactly the sort of new record one might hope to discover in the front racks: intricate, creative, pleasing to the eye and ear. The Coke bottle vinyl
ACL 2013: Top Ten Experimental
What’s new? The Experimental field has the answers: tortured tapes, disturbing images, military drums, a garden of monsters brought to life. This selection is where to turn for the most creative and original music of the year. You’ve been warned!
ACL 2013: Top Ten Experimental
What’s new? The Experimental field has the answers: tortured tapes, disturbing images, military drums, a garden of monsters brought to life. This selection is where to turn for the most creative and original music of the year. You’ve been warned!
Old Bicycle Records ~ Sparkle in Grey, Nuno Moita/Matteo Uggeri, Stefano De Ponti, and Tape Crash # 6 & #7
Old Bicycle Records is a small label based in the small city of Piazzogna in the Italian canton of Switzerland, a relatively small region of an already small country. Nestled in the Alps, label founder Vasco Viviani is proud of
Old Bicycle Records ~ Sparkle in Grey, Nuno Moita/Matteo Uggeri, Stefano De Ponti, and Tape Crash # 6 & #7
Old Bicycle Records is a small label based in the small city of Piazzogna in the Italian canton of Switzerland, a relatively small region of an already small country. Nestled in the Alps, label founder Vasco Viviani is proud of
Raising Holy Sparks ~ Era Of Manifestations
If you’re a prolific artist of any kind, especially a musician, it’s easy for some to misread your intentions and to cast your motivations in a suspect light. Too often, a high output is seen as a lack of self-control,
Raising Holy Sparks ~ Era Of Manifestations
If you’re a prolific artist of any kind, especially a musician, it’s easy for some to misread your intentions and to cast your motivations in a suspect light. Too often, a high output is seen as a lack of self-control,
Francisco Meirino ~ An Extended Meaning for Something Meaningless
Francisco Meirino is the composer formerly known as phroq; in the past two decades, he’s released over a hundred solo and collaborative ventures. After such achievements, most performers would be content to rest on their laurels. Not so Meirino, whose new
Francisco Meirino ~ An Extended Meaning for Something Meaningless
Francisco Meirino is the composer formerly known as phroq; in the past two decades, he’s released over a hundred solo and collaborative ventures. After such achievements, most performers would be content to rest on their laurels. Not so Meirino, whose new
Emanuele de Raymondi ~ Ultimo Domicilio
The work of Italian composer Emanuele de Raymondi lands in the juncture between drone, electronic and modern composition. Ultimo Domicilio (Last Domicile) is a work that one yearns to dissect, taking the original tracks and laying them side by side to see where
Emanuele de Raymondi ~ Ultimo Domicilio
The work of Italian composer Emanuele de Raymondi lands in the juncture between drone, electronic and modern composition. Ultimo Domicilio (Last Domicile) is a work that one yearns to dissect, taking the original tracks and laying them side by side to see where
Iancu Dumitrescu ~ Pierres Sacrées / Hazard and Tectonics
Iancu Dumitrescu has for a long time been at the edge of an avant-garde that treats its source material not as form/content or sign but phenomenon, eluding the sculptural particularities of both the spectralists and the concréte composers while adapting
Iancu Dumitrescu ~ Pierres Sacrées / Hazard and Tectonics
Iancu Dumitrescu has for a long time been at the edge of an avant-garde that treats its source material not as form/content or sign but phenomenon, eluding the sculptural particularities of both the spectralists and the concréte composers while adapting
SaffronKeira + Mario Massa ~ Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect is an expansive record whose soundscapes reach to the abstract to cavort with a concept that can stray equally far from our comprehension. With his third full-length, electronic sound composer, Eugenio Caria, under the name SaffronKeira, ruminates
SaffronKeira + Mario Massa ~ Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect is an expansive record whose soundscapes reach to the abstract to cavort with a concept that can stray equally far from our comprehension. With his third full-length, electronic sound composer, Eugenio Caria, under the name SaffronKeira, ruminates
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