Shannon Smith

Shannon Smith went to college in New York, then left the US to teach English in Poland and South Korea before returning to Boston, where she grew up. She is currently a grad student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the Modern Studies and Library Science programs. She plays noise music under the name Pataphor.

Shannon Smith's website is here.

latest reviews by Shannon Smith....
Shannon's lifetime average review-rating is 6.38
The Third Eye "Awakening" Thick, heavenly fuzz... rated 6/10 (18 August, 2010)
Megabats "in/out" A great listen... rated 7/10 (11 August, 2010)
Crepuscular "Deep Slow Majesty" Black drone indeed... rated 7/10 (4 August, 2010)
Hotel Gromada "Amazonian Rovers" An interesting set of field recordings... rated 7/10 (28 July, 2010)
Kryptonics "Rejectionville" Decent enough collection from Australia... rated 6/10 (28 July, 2010)
Breakway "Get Down" Nice one!.. rated 7/10 (24 June, 2010)
Decoy "Vol. 1: Spirit" Pipe Organ, Bass and Drums. Nice!.. rated 7/10 (16 June, 2010)
Bring Me The Head Of Orion "Courting Leviathan" Heavy metal drone... rated 6/10 (9 June, 2010)
Eden & John’s East River String Band "Drunken Barrelhouse Blues" Good times... rated 8/10 (2 June, 2010)
Matt Shuff "O, Phantom of the Overheated Brain" Not so great... rated 4/10 (26 May, 2010)
BJ Nilsen "The Invisible City" Tight drones... rated 6/10 (19 May, 2010)
Circulasione Totale Orchestra "Bandwidth" Free improv from Frode Gjerstad, Paal Nilssen-Love, Bobby Bradford, Lasse Marhuag, and Hamid Drake... rated 8/10 (19 May, 2010)
Mandy More "But That Is Me" Positively groovy and gorgeous... rated 8/10 (28 April, 2010)
Mesa Ritual "Voltaic Processions" Excellent collab between William Fowler Collins & Raven Chacon... rated 7/10 (21 April, 2010)
Hackles "Interiors" Hit & miss, but awesome packaging... rated 5/10 (14 April, 2010)
 
 
26 September, 2010
The New Foxy Digitalis Check out the new site.... feature :: by Brad Rose

8 September, 2010
Ernesto Diaz-Infante Since the mid-nineties, composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante has been releasing some of the most boldly unclassifiable and uncompromising music that spans an unbelievably wide range of sounds... feature :: by David Perron

Horaflora Horaflora is San Francisco-based musician Raub Roy. .. feature :: by Mike Pursley

1 September, 2010
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird
15 September, 2010
Lucky 13 Jani Hellén's 13,000,000th dream.. podcast :: by Jani Hellén

10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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