CD Feature/ Mathias Delplanque: "L'inondation"
Composing is like gardening: What will happen to these sounds when the composer lets go?
CD Feature/ The Melvins: "Nude with Boots"
Some kind of brutal ballet: Harsh as hell, but cleverly catchy at the same time.
Vital Weekly 641
Frans de Waard presents the experimental releases of the week.
LP Feature/ Esther Venrooy: "The Spiral Staircase"
Sounds with a personality: A burning path along transitory scenes of halucinatory intensity.
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.
Li Tie Qiao: Returns to China's Improvisational Heart
Chinese Sonic Explorer, Improvisor and Composer Li Tie Qiao is leaving his current home of Oslo to return to his ...
Philip Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts
Originally realised as a personal hommage to celebrate the composer's 70th birthday, Scott Hicks' „Glass – A Portrait of Philip ...
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 ...
Audio Ashram: Walk the Middle Path to India
Freshly founded Indian label Audio Ashram are preparing for the launch of their debut disc: “The Middle Path” by Saatvik ...
Nightmares on Wax: Who would have thought so?
Nightmares on Wax are back with their latest studio album on Warp Records. Now the label’s longest-serving artist, George Evelyn ...