Posts Tagged: Richard Allen

Best Music Videos of 2015: First Quarter

If you visit Vimeo daily, you’ll eventually find most of the best music videos.  But until this year, searching took a lot of time.  Recently, something changed at the channel, whose music video selections have greatly increased since January.  We

Best Music Videos of 2015: First Quarter

If you visit Vimeo daily, you’ll eventually find most of the best music videos.  But until this year, searching took a lot of time.  Recently, something changed at the channel, whose music video selections have greatly increased since January.  We

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’

If any instrumental album could be called an event, this is it.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor has nothing to prove, and yet they keeping proving it.  ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ is worth the hype, although the band likely doesn’t care.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’

If any instrumental album could be called an event, this is it.  Godspeed You! Black Emperor has nothing to prove, and yet they keeping proving it.  ‘Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress’ is worth the hype, although the band likely doesn’t care.

Tomorrow We Sail ~ Saturn

Taking a page from the playbook of their Gizeh label mates FareWell Poetry (with whom they also share a couple members), Tomorrow We Sail enlists the aid of occultist, poet and historian Alexander Cummins for a single, stunning, 19-minute piece.  In one

Tomorrow We Sail ~ Saturn

Taking a page from the playbook of their Gizeh label mates FareWell Poetry (with whom they also share a couple members), Tomorrow We Sail enlists the aid of occultist, poet and historian Alexander Cummins for a single, stunning, 19-minute piece.  In one

M. Ostermeier ~ Still

How still do you like your stillness to be?  As still as “4’33”, as measured as glacial ambience, or inwardly still but outwardly in motion?  On his first album since 2011, M. Ostermeier adopts the latter tactic. As the world begins to

M. Ostermeier ~ Still

How still do you like your stillness to be?  As still as “4’33”, as measured as glacial ambience, or inwardly still but outwardly in motion?  On his first album since 2011, M. Ostermeier adopts the latter tactic. As the world begins to

Rutger Zuydervelt ~ Sneeuwstorm

Can a saxophone sound like snow (sneeuw)?  In the hands of Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), the answer is yes.  On this album, Otto Kokke (soprano saxophone) and Colin Webster (tenor saxophone) find their contributions rumpled, looped, and otherwise manipulated in the service

Rutger Zuydervelt ~ Sneeuwstorm

Can a saxophone sound like snow (sneeuw)?  In the hands of Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek), the answer is yes.  On this album, Otto Kokke (soprano saxophone) and Colin Webster (tenor saxophone) find their contributions rumpled, looped, and otherwise manipulated in the service

Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path ~ Moon Disk

Berlin’s Schwarzarbeit label launched this January with a pair of digital EPs from Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path, two like-minded artists alternating tracks on each release.  Now the label and artists have stepped up with their first physical offering, Moon

Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path ~ Moon Disk

Berlin’s Schwarzarbeit label launched this January with a pair of digital EPs from Black Mental vs. Left Hand Path, two like-minded artists alternating tracks on each release.  Now the label and artists have stepped up with their first physical offering, Moon

Raphi Gottesman ~ Signed, Noisemaker

An album should always be judged on its own merits, which is why it’s a good thing we already liked Signed, Noisemaker before we learned of the artist’s history.  In light of Raphi Gottesman‘s storied career drumming for bands such as Odawas and

Raphi Gottesman ~ Signed, Noisemaker

An album should always be judged on its own merits, which is why it’s a good thing we already liked Signed, Noisemaker before we learned of the artist’s history.  In light of Raphi Gottesman‘s storied career drumming for bands such as Odawas and

Strië ~ Struktura

The third album from the enigmatic Strië (Iden Reinhart) is a lesson in abstraction: an impressionistic set inspired by abstract art, swaths of sound built upon whispers.  On this album, Reinhart travels farther down the path she set out upon in Sléptis

Strië ~ Struktura

The third album from the enigmatic Strië (Iden Reinhart) is a lesson in abstraction: an impressionistic set inspired by abstract art, swaths of sound built upon whispers.  On this album, Reinhart travels farther down the path she set out upon in Sléptis