Interview with Birchville Cat Motel
“Aren’t ALL descriptive words for music hopelessly inadequate?” Campbell Kneale (aka Birchville Cat Motel) protests in this interview, when faced ...
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/ Janek Schaefer: "Alone at Last" & "Extended Play"
Schaefer has long put his three-armed turntable aside: If hope could become music, this is what it would sound like.
CD Feature/ Lars Akerlund: "Ur/Volt"
Nonmusical associations: Dance as the physical equivalent of poetry.
CD Feature/ Taiga Remains: "Descend from Ivory Cliffs"
From silence to a loudly glowing supernova: An ardent burst of red, yellow and orange light.
15 Questions to Yann Novak
The story of Yann Novak proves that reincarnation is a reality. At the end of the 80s, Paul Novak founds ...
CD Feature/ Jed Speare: "Sound Works 1982-1987"
Music and pure sound: Speare asks questions about our acoustic environment.
CD Feature/ Aidan Baker & Jakob Thiesen: "A Bout de Souffle"
Tiring, grandiose and captivating: Improvisational prowess marked by a cool Jazz touch.
CD Feature/ Asher: "Intervals", "Cell Memory", "Graceful Degradation: Variations"
Methodical perfection: Three albums by a sound artist whose oeuvre is foremostly based on ideas.
CD Feature/ Lull: "Like a Slow River"; Oophoi: "An Aerial View"
Two lovingly lay-outed Digipacks: Isolationist Ambient pulling in everyone willing to submit to it.
CD Feature/ MGR vs. Xela: "Barge Split Series Vol. I"
Depth, gutfeeling and spatiousness: An LP a lot of people will be whispering about in silent reverence very soon.
The [law-rah] Collective: "...as it is..."
Akin to observing a sculptor modelling his objects in real time: Psychoactive sounds and a stringent script.
CD Feature/ Taylor Deupree: "Northern"
A striking degree of "realness": A sonic volubility and emotive vulnerability which will be hard to follow up on.
CD Feature/ Steve Roach: "Landmass"
True to his own tradition: Steely minimalism, nerved by an erotic film noire ambiance.
Thor's Rubber Hammer: Celebrate Noisy Improvisation on “Ecstatic Jazz Duos”
Washingtonm DC-based experimental label Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions have announced a series of 12’’ Split-releases, involving some of the major ...