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LP Feature/ CA Celestial & Bill Wells: "Somewhere Under a Rainbow" Words are nothing but an intrusion: Everything is personal here.

CD Feature/ MGR: "Wavering On The Cresting Heft" An ambient soldier, a poet of despair: Hot contenders for saddest songs of the year.

KILN: From Dawn to Dusker After a delay of almost half a year, Michigan-based trio KILN have finally set their new full-length album free for ...

LP Feature/Daniel Patrick Quinn: "West to the Irish Sea" A happy end to a chapter: Quinn’s storytelling is suspended between two strokes of the clock.

Random Stabbings 29 November's interesting records, subjectively compiled by Eric W. Saeger.

CD Feature/ V.A.: "Neuklang Kirchenlied" On a purely musical level, this combination would never work: A project to get people singing again.

CD Feature/ Nadja: "Radiance of Shadows" Daring and over the top: Within the initial boundaries, not all too many acts have gone farther.

CD Feature/ Sunburned Circle: "The Blaze Game" A constant craving for interaction: A slightly unreal set of ebbing and flowing pieces.

CD Feature/ Residual Echoes: "Firsts EP" Fuzzed-out, blurred, but bright: A flexibility test for the format of the traditional song.

Random Stabbings 28 September's interesting records, subjectively compiled by Eric W. Saeger.

CD Feature/ Nadja: "Guilted by the Sun EP" An open invitation to the Nadja cosmos: The most accessible work of their catalogue.

CD Feature/ Jake Playmo: "My Favourite Toys" Mixing hard rock elements with jazz: Pieces are connected, disconnected and thrown about.

Interview with One More Grain From the sweet string and trumpet reverberations leading into the warm bass lines and subsequent jazz grooves of "A Shout ...

CD Feature/ Fear Falls Burning & Nadja: "st" Breathtaking border-frictions: Shamanic searches for the cosmos contained within a single chord.

Random Stabbings Part 1 July's round-up of interesting records, subjectively compiled by Eric W. Saeger