Tim Grey, Portland’s purveyor of minimally invasive techno, returns with Opus 2, a haunted batch of textured tones, hushed beats and fluid action.
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Half-Assing it All The Way: Bobby Power’s 2012
Best Album Loscil, “Sketches from New Brighton” (Kranky) Having already sung my praises of Sketches from New Brighton, those same “dusty aural moods” and “ghostly atmospheres” are just as affecting now at the end of 2012. It’s doesn’t hurt that these cold sounds are making the rounds again in my headphones now that the winter months...
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Steve Hauschildt, “Sequitur”
Steve Hauschildt, resident synth extraordinaire of Cleveland’s Emeralds and operator of Gneiss Things, returns with Sequitur, a sweetly concise take on the heavy kraut meditations of his initial solo outtings.
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Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox, “Connected”
Commissioned as a soundtrack for a dance production, Connected brings together two of Australia’s most notable exports of aural experimentation.
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Jessica Bailiff, “At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky”
It’s been more than six years since the last Jessica Bailiff LP, but the queen of space/drone/folk hasn’t lost her touch.
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Loscil, “Sketches from New Brighton”
Scott Morgan lives in the background, quietly releasing carefully constructed minimal ambient/techno sounds and moonlighting on other musicians’ projects for more than a decade.
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Mysterious Narratives: An Interview with Christina Vantzou
Christina Vantzou is a Kansas City-born, Brussels-based artist, composer and musician, who recently made her solo debut, No1, on Kranky in late 2011. The sounds on No1 are hauntingly beautiful; you can read my review of the album here. But sounds aren’t all this mysterious artist has been up to. Christina, who studied at...
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Christina Vantzou, “No1″
Delicate, romantic, contemplative, introspective; all of these terms describe Christina Vantzou‘s recent album No1.
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2011 – The Year in Review
Best Album Tim Hecker, Ravedeath, 1972 LP/CD (Kranky) What an exceptional year for music! With so many amazing releases, how’s a boy to choose the album of the year? I thought long and hard, and switched it up a few times before deciding to pick the album I consistently went back to over and over...
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My Year In Lists: The Best (And Worst) Of 2011
I’ve heard and read so many people saying 2011 was a bad year for music. Where are these people looking? What are they listening to? Because it’s certainly not been my experience of the year. For me 2011 has been one of the most exciting years in a long time, with more variety than...
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Bobby Power’s 2011 List
Best Album Rene Hell, “Terminal Symphony” (Type) I’m still trying to fully grasp this album. Jeff Witscher’s second full-length as Rene Hell simultaneously attacks and celebrates classical music with a retro-futuristic lens and jagged production. Witscher seems to have perfected his hand at editing and effects-work, as every sound is essential to the whole. ...
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