This release, by long-time collaborators Davy Bui (head of the Weird Forest label) and Matt Kretzmann, was mastered by Graham Lambkin, and as you would expect from a first-rate collaboration of musicians such as this, the level of skill demonstrated on the album is very high.
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This is the first of two volumes of Selbstportrait, originally released in 1979 by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, cofounder of the legendary German group Cluster, as well as West Berlin music venue the Zodiak Free Arts Lab.
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“Doubles” by Cian Nugent is now out on VHF Records. There will be a release party at The Button Factory in Dublin next week, with performances by Wooden Wand and Seth Horatio Buncombe. A video for an excerpt of the piece “Sixes and Sevens” by Dylan Phillips can also be viewed here:
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Few contemporary artists are as honest and progressive with their work as Rafael Toral - his music is always pushed forward into new territory without returning to previously treaded ground, and this is especially true of the point of departure that occurred a decade ago, after the release of his album Violence of Discovery and...
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Marking a concluding phase of the period of work Rafael Toral has called the Space Program, “Space Elements Vol. III” sees the composer’s skillful use of strange electronic instrumentation and highly original artistic approach complemented by several different accompanists.
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This cassette by August Traeger is interestingly composed of analog and digital manipulations of another artist’s songs
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“Magic/Khands” is an inventive, drawn-out work by Swedish musician Johannes Brander.
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This at times very heavy, at others quiet, subtle, and winding avant-garde album by the talented Naples, Italy-based trio A Spirale is centered around a constant evolution of saxophone, electric guitar, and jazz-like, off-tempo drumming.
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This is the first volume of four in a series of electronic sketches, created by wife and husband Helen and Justin Watson, sent to various musicians (Leyland Kirby and Susan Hawkins, for example) who then modified and re-imagined the recordings, creating a wide array of well-written thematic variation on the same four structures of...
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With Further On, a release by prolific Georgia-based musician D. Haddon’s Warning Light project, a series of synthesizer compositions makes for a very inviting, but at times uneven, musical landscape.
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