CD Feature/ OceanLab: "Sirens of the Sea"
Improves your summer experience: Slow, medium and medium-fast synth arpeggio percolation.
CD Feature/ Thelmo Cristovam: "Paisagens Sonoras em Õstrõ Hyija"
His most important album to date: Morphs complex acoustic phenomena into seemingly homogenuous pastures.
Vital Weekly 637
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ Annea Lockwood: "A Sound Map of the Danube"
Stories from the river: An audio theatre of amazing plasticity.
CD Feature/ Lars Akerlund: "Ur/Volt"
Nonmusical associations: Dance as the physical equivalent of poetry.
Random Stabbings 36
July's round of interesting records, subjectively compiled by Eric Saeger.
CD Feature/ Flintglass: "Circumsounds"; disHARMONY: "Cloned"
Highly personal: Two Remix compilations with some surprising intersections.
CD Feature/ Taiga Remains: "Descend from Ivory Cliffs"
From silence to a loudly glowing supernova: An ardent burst of red, yellow and orange light.
Cathedral Improvisations
Not a classical ensemble in the strict sense: Mico Nonet combine chamber music and electronics.
CD Feature/ Giuseppe Ielasi: "Stunt"
Shifts the balance: Fans of Ielasi’s early oeuvre should brace themselves.
CD Feature/ Jed Speare: "Sound Works 1982-1987"
Music and pure sound: Speare asks questions about our acoustic environment.
Vital Weekly 636
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
CD Feature/ V.A.: "Signal to Noise Vol. 6"
Human encounters: A bewildering and extremely entertaining eclecticism.
CD Feature/ Byetone: "Death of a Typographer"
There’s no record without a narrative: Olaf Bender has discovered drama.
Vital Weekly 635
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.