Grab a porpoise and take a dive through the oceans of LRJ Martens’ subconscious.
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Reviews
Dolphins into the Future, “On Seafaring Isolation” LP
Sun Circle, “Tapes” 2xCD
The cassette tape is typically promoted as a personal and warm medium, analog and limited to small batches.
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Old Time Relijun, “Songbook, Volume One”
No Indonesian throat singing to summon energies or impress da ladies quite yet; in the earliest days of Old Time Relijun, Arrington de Dionyso’s voice had basically two settings: strained amphibian rasp and blinky-eyed freak shriek.
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The Lonely Forest, “Arrows”
What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding? It is pretty ballsy to be sentimental these days.
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Fadensonnen, “Grey EP” CDr
This self-releasd EP comes out of the blocks lickety-split.
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Pleq, “Ballet Mechanic”
Pleq is Bartosz Dziadosz from Warsaw, Poland. He says that “Ballet Mechanic” is “his most personal, abstract and intellectual work to date, never to be repeated.”
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Book of Sand, “Destruction, Not Reformation”
When I first heard Book of Sand I had to stop mid-step, cling to the wall, and clutch my chest.
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The Weird Weeds, “Help Me Name Melody”
Hookahs, dinosaurs and orgies. If that’s not a winning combo, I don’t know what is.
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Free Piece Of Tape, s/t
Improv electro-acoustics from a Greek duo.
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Harmonizer, s/t tape
I’m long overdue in reviewing this cassette, but since it’s still available from the source, it seems worthwhile to pound out at least few words about it, however delayed they may be.
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OvO, “Cor Cordium” LP+CD+DVD
To paraphrase the immortal Ranch Hands, OvO certainly know how to Whap a Dang.
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Dag för Dag, “Boo”
While there certainly is some twee funk surrounding Dag för Dag, the brother-sister duo manage to achieve genuine emotional power on “Boo,” even on tunes that threaten to become precious and annoying.
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V/A, “Oms-b 023”
Made up of music originally released on a series of split cassettes in 2009, this CD serves as a kind of sampler for the Oms-b label so far.
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