I first encountered Moonwood last year, reviewing the River Ghost LP. That LP’s progressions from expansive sketches to dense song structures — built prominently around guitar and gourd flute. Jakob Rehlinger follows up River Ghost this year with a new CD, The Strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the Strength of the...
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Whoa, what’s this? Is this really Troy Schafer? The man involved with the psychedelic collective Second Family Band and the pagan folkery of Wreathes goes classical on Evening Song Awaken. It is a series of seven total compositions; three of which form one series, two another, and then two unrelated close up the disc. ...
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Crystal Hell Pool's debut for Debacle Records, "Domain" plays almost like a musical game, one where an artist sets up rules to follow when composing something.
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One of the fun aspects of labels that feature releases which can vary wildly in style is that you never know what you’re going to get from batch to batch.
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For ten years Belgian composer Jean-Luc Fafchamps has written music inspired by and named after the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet.
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Laptop composer Doron Sadja’s first album was released by 12k in 2003; Residuals is its long-in-the-making follow-up.
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Andy & Zeus build layered, pulsating electronics to an extensive, droning B-side piece on "Tales of Power."
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Apart from the odd Hauschka or Goldmund release, the field of experimental piano has been practically deserted in the last years – or rather, there was a shortage of high profile releases.
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