Mind Mapping Basics
Richard Scott is tracing some Delirious Cartographies (ARBITRARY 13)…this composer / improviser fellow is very au fait with analogue synths, and that’s what we hear on this EP release, although the...
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The great Burkhard Beins has surfaced in these pages with tremendous performances in groups such as Polwechsel, Trio Sowari, and Perlonex, plus many other instances of collaborative works, many of them...
View ArticleVissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne: a mediaeval English pilgrimage through...
Piyakdu, Vissiones ov Naeku the’e Plowmanne, United States, Grime Stone Records, (no catalogue number) cassette / CD (2023) Partly inspired by 14th-century English writer William Langland’s allegorical...
View ArticleViva in Pace: expressing frustration, anger and despair at the world’s...
Roel Meelkop, Viva in Pace, Portugal, Crónica Electronica, Crónica 201 CD (2023) Roel Meelkop’s career as a sound artist stretches back some 40 years since he started the post-industrial project THU20...
View ArticleMetaMorph: a wide range of musical metamorphoses from young improv jazz trio
Other:M:other, MetaMorph, Austria, Klanggalerie, gg424 CD (2023) Based in Vienna, Other:M:other is an improvisational jazz / experimental / beats-oriented trio, each of whose members boasts a varied...
View ArticleEcclesia Gnostica: an ambitious melodic black metal debut in esoteric...
A/Oratos, Ecclesia Gnostica, France, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, AO 230 CD / LPAO-231 vinyl LP (2024) Nearly five years after releasing their debut work “Epignosis” and with changes in...
View ArticleSpectrum Is Black
I’ll admit to a soft spot for the music of Swedish composer Åke Parmerud ever since hearing his 2015 Growl release for this label. Much of the selection on that set satisfied our unhealthy lusts for...
View ArticleStrange Attractors: eerie and unearthly soundscapes produced by feedback systems
David Lee Myers, Strange Attractors, Portugal, Crónica, Crónica 203 limited edition CD (2023) Sometimes working under his own name and at other times working as Arcane Device, which he has done since...
View ArticleBlack Tides: a whimsical ride through blackened surf rock / psychedelia and...
Kólga, Black Tides, United States, self-released, CD / vinyl LP (2024) One look at that wacky album cover and I was hooked: I just had to find out what this Texan five-piece band Kólga was up to on its...
View ArticleThis is Zologo Beat: an energetic and powerful fusion of Upper East Ghana...
Various Artists, This is Zologo Beat, Netherlands, Makkum Records, MR 35, CD digipak / vinyl LP (2023) Dutch label Makkum Records has long had an interest in the music of the Upper East Region in...
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