Posts Tagged: Miasmah
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!
ACL 2013: Top Ten Drone
In a classroom, a drone is a nuisance, but in music, it’s an attraction. These artists know that drone is more than sustained sound; it’s texture, movement and tone. Songs hum like appliances, grind like motors & clank like factories.
ACL 2013: Top Ten Drone
In a classroom, a drone is a nuisance, but in music, it’s an attraction. These artists know that drone is more than sustained sound; it’s texture, movement and tone. Songs hum like appliances, grind like motors & clank like factories.
Gabriel Saloman ~ Soldier’s Requiem
Is it coincidence or intention that Gabriel Saloman‘s last two albums have been released in November? The sound of the former Yellow Swans artist is tailor-made for this time of year: dark, moody, conflicted. In our last two reviews, we commented
Gabriel Saloman ~ Soldier’s Requiem
Is it coincidence or intention that Gabriel Saloman‘s last two albums have been released in November? The sound of the former Yellow Swans artist is tailor-made for this time of year: dark, moody, conflicted. In our last two reviews, we commented
Kaboom Karavan ~ Hokus Fokus
An album by a frequent Kreng collaborator, mastered by Nils Frahm? Forget dragons, locusts and blood, the apocalypse has officially arrived. On a less important note, Frahm has just cemented his status as the Kevin Bacon of instrumental music. Combine
Kaboom Karavan ~ Hokus Fokus
An album by a frequent Kreng collaborator, mastered by Nils Frahm? Forget dragons, locusts and blood, the apocalypse has officially arrived. On a less important note, Frahm has just cemented his status as the Kevin Bacon of instrumental music. Combine
Svarte Greiner ~ Black Tie
This is not spring music, but you probably already knew that. Svarte Greiner does not make music for flowers and bunnies, unless perhaps we are including the flowers of Little Shop of Horrors and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. In each of his guises, Skodvin
Svarte Greiner ~ Black Tie
This is not spring music, but you probably already knew that. Svarte Greiner does not make music for flowers and bunnies, unless perhaps we are including the flowers of Little Shop of Horrors and the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog. In each of his guises, Skodvin
ACL 2012: The Top 20 Albums of the Year
Thousands of releases, hundreds of reviews, and it all comes down to this: the Top Twenty instrumental and experimental releases of 2012. This isn’t just the one percent; it’s a small percent of a percent, the cream of the crop.
ACL 2012: The Top 20 Albums of the Year
Thousands of releases, hundreds of reviews, and it all comes down to this: the Top Twenty instrumental and experimental releases of 2012. This isn’t just the one percent; it’s a small percent of a percent, the cream of the crop.
ACL 2012: Top Ten Modern Composition
The Modern Composition genre is the heir to the Classical: music composed for piano, brass, strings or orchestra. One might expect to encounter these artists in churches and other resonant spaces designed for full musical palettes and rich timbral shades.
ACL 2012: Top Ten Modern Composition
The Modern Composition genre is the heir to the Classical: music composed for piano, brass, strings or orchestra. One might expect to encounter these artists in churches and other resonant spaces designed for full musical palettes and rich timbral shades.
ACL 2012: Top Ten Experimental
Many artists claim to be experimental, simply since they experiment; but this does not make them experimental artists. In order to be placed in this category, an artist must be wildly improvisational, incredibly creative, or straight out hard to define.
ACL 2012: Top Ten Experimental
Many artists claim to be experimental, simply since they experiment; but this does not make them experimental artists. In order to be placed in this category, an artist must be wildly improvisational, incredibly creative, or straight out hard to define.
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