Category Archives: Experimental

Fate of Uncertainty ~ Fate of Uncertainty/Null Cycles

Fate of Uncertainty/Null Cycles is not a gentle album.  While often elegiac, it waits until its passengers are lulled, then swerves into oncoming traffic.  This makes it an unsettling listening experience, an antidote to placidity. To create this album, Joe Meland

Fate of Uncertainty ~ Fate of Uncertainty/Null Cycles

Fate of Uncertainty/Null Cycles is not a gentle album.  While often elegiac, it waits until its passengers are lulled, then swerves into oncoming traffic.  This makes it an unsettling listening experience, an antidote to placidity. To create this album, Joe Meland

Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet ~ Stones, Air, Axioms

In their introduction to Stones Air Axioms, Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet refer to the air volume of a cathedral as being “enclosed and defined by stone”.  This album reflects their attempt to map and reflect the sonic architecture of St. Pierre Cathedral

Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet ~ Stones, Air, Axioms

In their introduction to Stones Air Axioms, Thomas Tilly and Jean-Luc Guionnet refer to the air volume of a cathedral as being “enclosed and defined by stone”.  This album reflects their attempt to map and reflect the sonic architecture of St. Pierre Cathedral

Sam Gillies ~ Music for Computers

When an artist is represented by a swirled face, one thinks, a) this person is in the Witness Protection Program; b) this person is a chameleon, and/or c) oh no, I hope this is not his real face.  As it

Sam Gillies ~ Music for Computers

When an artist is represented by a swirled face, one thinks, a) this person is in the Witness Protection Program; b) this person is a chameleon, and/or c) oh no, I hope this is not his real face.  As it

Strotter Inst. ~ Widerhall

Widerhall is a collection of live recordings from a 2010 U.S. tour.  The cover photo seems ironic; shouldn’t the backpack crowd be making this sort of music?  Instead, the teenagers stand, enraptured:  Dude, the old guy is cool!  That’s Christoph Hess, by

Strotter Inst. ~ Widerhall

Widerhall is a collection of live recordings from a 2010 U.S. tour.  The cover photo seems ironic; shouldn’t the backpack crowd be making this sort of music?  Instead, the teenagers stand, enraptured:  Dude, the old guy is cool!  That’s Christoph Hess, by

The Dwindlers ~ Allegories

One’s appreciation of spoken word relies on three variables: 1) Do you like the genre?  2) Do you like the voice?  3) Do you like the words?  In terms of Allegories, if the answer to these questions is yes, then

The Dwindlers ~ Allegories

One’s appreciation of spoken word relies on three variables: 1) Do you like the genre?  2) Do you like the voice?  3) Do you like the words?  In terms of Allegories, if the answer to these questions is yes, then

Paulo Chagas & Jérôme Poirier ~ Abstraction

If, gentle reader, your first thought of a collaboration between a vocalist and a reeds player is to imagine a John Coltrane / Johnny Hartman meet-up for the 21st Century, then possibly Abstraction is not for you. This is closer

Paulo Chagas & Jérôme Poirier ~ Abstraction

If, gentle reader, your first thought of a collaboration between a vocalist and a reeds player is to imagine a John Coltrane / Johnny Hartman meet-up for the 21st Century, then possibly Abstraction is not for you. This is closer

The Implicit Order ~ 1967

1967 is a walk down one man’s memory lane. A dark, tumultuous and heavily drug influenced walk. A compilation of recordings unearthed from Anthony Washburn’s twenty three year career at making music, rearranged, crushed and mixed with interludes (referred to

The Implicit Order ~ 1967

1967 is a walk down one man’s memory lane. A dark, tumultuous and heavily drug influenced walk. A compilation of recordings unearthed from Anthony Washburn’s twenty three year career at making music, rearranged, crushed and mixed with interludes (referred to

Ian Holloway, Rhodri Thomas & Stephen Jones ~ Simple Ghosts & Lazy Old Bones

Simple Ghosts & Lazy Bones sounds just like its title.  It’s a tiny bit haunted, but the ghosts are benign; and it took three years to complete, but it did get done.  The album sets it own pace, like a colorful

Ian Holloway, Rhodri Thomas & Stephen Jones ~ Simple Ghosts & Lazy Old Bones

Simple Ghosts & Lazy Bones sounds just like its title.  It’s a tiny bit haunted, but the ghosts are benign; and it took three years to complete, but it did get done.  The album sets it own pace, like a colorful