LP Feature/ FRANCIS| GUERRA| MATTIN| STERN: "s/t"
Dense, organic scrapescapes: The individual voices of the performers can clearly be discerned at every moment.
LP Feature/ The Black Dog: "Detroit vs. Sheffield"
No idolatry: Mutual respect does not prevent anyone involved here from making the music their own.
Vital Weekly 640
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ Gel Sol: "IZ"
Always a friendly light around the bend: An all-ambient adventure.
CD Feature/ V.A.: "Edition Sonoro"
Variations on "sound evolving in time": A day dream soundtracked by a ghost violin.
CD Feature/ Crack Nation: “Artifacts II: 1989-1994”
Permanent Places in Cars: No longer third-hand Skinny Puppy.
CD Feature/ Frevo Quartet: "Histoire du Tango"
Into places formerly deemed too dark: Evokes mental images of a small street band,
CD Feature/ Luigi Turra: "texture.vitra"
Backwards translations: Turra has chosen to place his sounds carefully.
Vital Weekly 639
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
15 Questions to Mico Nonet
After decades of experimentation and cross-over projects both of the more intricate and explicit kind, composers and sound sculptors have ...
CD Feature/ Albalonga & Anibal Cetrangolo: "Venetian Composers in Guatemala and Bolivia"
Big in Bolivia: Spanish missionaries might have invented the Remix.
CD Feature/ Ulna: "Frcture"
Powerbooks for instruments: Flexible and funky 21st century electronica.
CD Feature/ Aranos: "Koryak Mistress stakes Golden Sky"
A shifting body of sound: Tonality is tweaked and tweezed into a slightly different form.
CD Feature/ Denis Patkovic: "Bach & Tiensuu: Goldberg - Mine Variations"
Beyond the Novelty factor: A new conglomerate, longer and even more mysterious than the famous blueprint.
Metal Visions International 2
A planet forged of steel: Exploring Metal releases from all around the world.