Posts Tagged: Richard Allen

Field Rotation ~ Fatalist: The Repetition of History

The work that Christoph Berg produces in his Field Rotation guise is darker than the work he produces under his own name.  The timbre is smoky and grey.  The passages seep across the sound field, acting more like tendrils than trunks.  One

Field Rotation ~ Fatalist: The Repetition of History

The work that Christoph Berg produces in his Field Rotation guise is darker than the work he produces under his own name.  The timbre is smoky and grey.  The passages seep across the sound field, acting more like tendrils than trunks.  One

Annea Lockwood ~ A Sound Map of the Housatonic River

A certain irony rests in the fact that I’m listening to the work of a New Zealand artist who traveled across the sea to record the sounds of a river near the home where I was raised.  Even as a

Annea Lockwood ~ A Sound Map of the Housatonic River

A certain irony rests in the fact that I’m listening to the work of a New Zealand artist who traveled across the sea to record the sounds of a river near the home where I was raised.  Even as a

The Floating World ~ We Hunted

When is a flute album not a flute album?  When the flautist is the leader of a band, and when the album has a purpose beyond the promotion of a single instrument.  Amanda Votta, the guiding hand behind The Floating World,

The Floating World ~ We Hunted

When is a flute album not a flute album?  When the flautist is the leader of a band, and when the album has a purpose beyond the promotion of a single instrument.  Amanda Votta, the guiding hand behind The Floating World,

Endless Melancholy ~ Five Songs

Solo piano music seems perfectly fitted for winter, but we don’t often think of the reasons why.  Perhaps it is because the music is stark like a winter landscape; because the white keys are reminiscent of snow; because the sounds

Endless Melancholy ~ Five Songs

Solo piano music seems perfectly fitted for winter, but we don’t often think of the reasons why.  Perhaps it is because the music is stark like a winter landscape; because the white keys are reminiscent of snow; because the sounds

Yuco ~ I’m living in melancholy in the fog

Art often arrives in the wake of disaster as a swift response: an attempt to console quickly or to raise funds.  Meaningful art often takes longer to arrive.  In the immediate aftermath of trauma, the emotions run high and perspective is

Yuco ~ I’m living in melancholy in the fog

Art often arrives in the wake of disaster as a swift response: an attempt to console quickly or to raise funds.  Meaningful art often takes longer to arrive.  In the immediate aftermath of trauma, the emotions run high and perspective is

Michelle Cross & Joe Frawley ~ Dolls Come to Life

13 Houses and the Mermaid plunged listeners into a world of repressed and haunted memory; A Hundred Years delved into fairy tales.  On Dolls Come to Life, Joe Frawley sidesteps into a forest of dark whimsy with the aid of Chicago vocalist Michelle Cross.  The turn

Michelle Cross & Joe Frawley ~ Dolls Come to Life

13 Houses and the Mermaid plunged listeners into a world of repressed and haunted memory; A Hundred Years delved into fairy tales.  On Dolls Come to Life, Joe Frawley sidesteps into a forest of dark whimsy with the aid of Chicago vocalist Michelle Cross.  The turn

Matt Collins ~ The Grin Without the Cat or the Cat Without the Outline

Blue Tapes is a new experimental cassette label that opened its doors last year.  Why cassette?  In the words of the founders, “If it’s good enough for Autechre, it’s good enough for us.”  Not that everything – or indeed anything

Matt Collins ~ The Grin Without the Cat or the Cat Without the Outline

Blue Tapes is a new experimental cassette label that opened its doors last year.  Why cassette?  In the words of the founders, “If it’s good enough for Autechre, it’s good enough for us.”  Not that everything – or indeed anything

Fescal ~ Two Winter Poems

This little package is a joy to own and to peruse.  Two Winter Poems is a multi-media treasure in a box: an instrumental CD3″ inspired by the poems of Pushkin, the printed poems on delicate sheets, a Polaroid photo of Pushkin’s

Fescal ~ Two Winter Poems

This little package is a joy to own and to peruse.  Two Winter Poems is a multi-media treasure in a box: an instrumental CD3″ inspired by the poems of Pushkin, the printed poems on delicate sheets, a Polaroid photo of Pushkin’s