India Czajkowska: Cosmospir
The combination of classicaly trained vocals and atmospheric contemporary electronica is gaining ground. After Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard hit ...
Concert Report: Fear Falls Burning & Bass Communion
Live at cc Luchtbal, Antwerp, November 1st 2008.
Greg Kelley: Self-Hate Index needs no extended-extended Techniques
Usually, an artist’s choice of instrument is a perfect opener for lighting up an easy conversation and for sparking smirking ...
15 Questions to Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
To many listeners and composers alike, field recordings and unprocessed sound are just building blocks for compositions, which need to ...
Stephane Leonard: 'Lykkelig Dyr" bound for Bremen and Brooklyn
Painter, Composer and Filmmaker Stephane Leonard has lived in Berlin for almost his entire life. And yet, on his latest ...
CD Feature/ Hall of Mirrors: "Reflections on Black"; NIMH: "The Missing Tapes" & "The Unkept Secrets"
A bleeding heart: Wider than the term “Ambient” could ever encompass.
CD Feature/ N.Strahl.N: "Äthernarkose"
The pulse of change becomes an object of fascination: A delicious slice of delirious code.
Kvitnu Fest: Second Coming in Kiev
Only a couple of weeks ago, it looked as though a highly anticipated celebration of experimental sounds had turned into ...
CD Feature/ Zavoloka: "Viter"
Nothing seems forced, complex or out of place: Your angle decides what you will see.
CD Feature/ V.A.: "Kubla Khan"
Enlightening juxtapositions: A poem as a point of departure.
Li Jianhong: Chinese King of Stoned Crowds
Guitarist Li Jianhong (superlatively dubbed „The best Noise musician in China” by his Polish colleague Zbigniew Karkowski) is preparing for ...
CD Feature/ Kassel Jaeger: "ee[nd]"
Theatrical ambitions: Kassel Jaeger refuses to ignore the opaque black-box nature of perception.
Musical Cities of the World: Beijing
The Rock age may just have started: Yan Jun presents Beijing's scenes for Traditional, Classical, Experimental and Electro-Acoustic music.
CD Feature/ Jon Mueller & Jason Kahn: "Topography"
This is what they do best: Sound and space mutually influence each other.
CD Feature/ Aarde: "A Whole Day"; Kasper van Hoek: " Den Haag/ Groningen/ Froombosch"; Dead Wood & Red Needled Sea: " Split Series #3"
It's still the music that counts: A rapidly proliferating catalogue placed under strict quality control.