CD Feature/ Burning Skies: "Greed Filth Abuse Corruption"
You really do not have time to breath: Burning Skies are letting their inner aggression come out.
CD Feature/ Christoph Timpe & Academia Per Musica Roma: "Venetian Ensemble Music"
No room for unnecessary transfiguration: A rapid succesion of musical scenes of colourfully contrasting moods and tempi.
CD Feature/ Shy Child: "Noise Won’t Stop"
No smiley-dumb disco: Fantastically prepped for a not-too-distant love affair.
Vital Weekly 629
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ Marc Manning & Yann Novak: "Pairings"
A unique formula: Manning dictates gentle metaphors into Novak’s tape recorder.
CD Feature/ Josh Russell: "Sink" & "Music for Geiger Counters"; V.A.: "Golden Various"
A physical empathy for noise: Russell is a silent force on the sound art scene.
CD Feature/ Mou, Lips!: "Untree"
A quirky dance of the elements: Everything that makes the world of experimental music such a wonderful place.
CD Feature/ Critikal: "Graphorrhea"
A group with a message: Improvisation as a representation of what it means to live in the new millenium.
CD Feature/ Tanake: "3ree"
Finding ways of communication: A spooky mirror image of a Space Rock band.
CD Feature/ Portishead: "Third"
They're still there and they still matter: The triumph of a band who have never sounded this human before.
CD Feature/ Poolplayers: "Way Below the Surface"
Players aligned like metallic dust along the poles of a magnet: Very very silent music, played carefully and in the ...
CD Feature/ Dan Fröberg: "15 Songs (Down at Jinxey´s)"
New folk music: We are still listening to physical objects – but no longer to a physical reality.
Random Stabbings 34
May's interesting records subjectively compiled by Eric Saeger.
CD Feature/ Liar's Rosebush: "Circle the Squares"
Mindbogglingly complex: The comforting rattle of a thousand different hihats.
CD Feature/ The Duke Spirit: "Neptune"
Genuinely edgy alt-rock: A breath of fresh Turkish-cigarette-scented air.