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Radiomentale / Eric Pajot - I-Land

CD - f4 Music
On first listening it is not easy to recognize the genealogy of this duo, whose origins are grounded in the rave and techno scenes of the nineties, in dj culture, and in a fascination with synthetic sounds and sci-fi movie settings. Jean-Yves Leloup and Eric Pajot, aka Radiomentale ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:49 AM - Apr 23/2013
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Quartz - Five Years On Cold Asphalt

CD - Crónica
His debut album on Crónica Electronica, a Portuguese label well known to the lovers of the experimental scene, Five Years On Cold Asphalt is the beginning of the solo career of Alexandr Vatagin, aka Quarz, already famous for his collaborations with Valeot and Liska Records, and for his commitment ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:27 AM - Mar 21/2013
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drone . electronica . experimental

Nad Spiro - Atomic Spy

CD - Geometrik
Dark, twisted, cerebral resonances filled with electronic retreats and industrial audio emergencies are mixed with drones, percussive electroacoustic insertions and clotted vocal breaks. The whole generates maudit suggestions and shocking and claustrophobic atmospheres that maintain a great charm ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:30 AM - Mar 18/2013
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Murmer - What Are The Roots That Clutch

CD - Helen Scarsdale
Under the moniker of Murmer hides Patrick McGinley, a field recordist who we remember for his We Share a Shadow, released in 2007 and the interesting live albums with Jim Haynes, another sound artist who works with Helen Scarsdale, a label specializing in the ambient and drone genres ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:27 AM - Mar 12/2013
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drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts . post rock

Jasper TX - The Black Sun Transmissions

CD - Fang Bomb
Claustrophobic settings, dark patterns in the background, disguised melodies, rather diluted and sidereal threads. In this manner begins "The Black Sun Transmissions" by Dag Rosenqvist, aka Jasper TX, a Swedish musician accustomed to hybrid multi-instrumentalisms, drones and improvisations rooted in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:17 AM - Oct 5/2012
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drone . experimental

Tom Johnson - Orgelpark For Chart: For Four Organs

CD - Mazagran
This is a composition for four organs by Tom Johnson that modulates for 50 minutes on a single note - the tonal key "C" – played in various octaves. The effect is definitely hypnotic, crystalline and absorbing; in the extreme minimalism the proposal is played through thin but insinuating iterations, characterized ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:14 PM - Jul 10/2012
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ambient . drone . experimental

Vitor Joaquim - Filament

CD - Knivitu
Here the sequences impress themselves in an iterated, hybrid union of melodious envelopes and synthetic drones; ambient interlacing characterized by very dilated and hypnotic knits. A sense of suspension fills the entire project. "Our everyday life seems to be always more polluted by messages of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:10 AM - Jun 19/2012
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drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscape

Attilio Novellino - Through Glass

CD - Valeot
Attilio Novellino is a musician-experimenter and a native of Catanzaro, whose sound is strongly soaked in a dark and intense cinematic appeal with echoes of post-rock music. Here we find dissonances and environmental melodies together with liquefied sequences, drones and auditory whirlpools. Melancholic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:03 PM - Jun 12/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

Alfredo Costa Monteiro + Ben Owen - Frêle à Vide

CD - Contour Editions
Harsh frequencies, superimposed in layers, obtained thanks to the feedback of a Walkman and emissions produced using short and medium-wave radios. These are some of the techniques employed by Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ben Owen in "Frêle À Vide", a cooperative project in which several microphones, mixers, a turntable arm and several self-built accessories come together, alongside an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:50 PM - May 12/2012
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drone . experimental . field recordings

Netherworld - Over The Summit

CD - Glacial Movements
The Netherworld project, supported by the Roman producer Alessandro Tedeschi (founder of the label Glacial Movements), has traditionally been characterized by ambient sounds both isolationist and ethereal. Now the road is open to a narration that assumes more sensitive and fascinating insertions. The textures ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:21 AM - Apr 17/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental

Illuha - Shizuku

CD - 12K
Here is some really sweet and delicate instrumental music by Illuha, the moniker that hides Corey Fuller and Data Tomoyashi, two musicians who articulate gentle and winding sequences, operating mainly from their base in Tokyo. However, it was in a old church in Bellingham, in Whatcom county ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:40 AM - Apr 3/2012
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audio art . drone . soundscapes

Luigi Turra - Ki

CD - and/OAR
Luigi Turra presents three CDs in a single release for and/OAR, including an equal number of extended and distinct compositions - Enso, Ancient Silence and Shasekishu respectively. From the beginning the trilogy by the Italian sound artist imprints itself in guise of a full-bodied electroacoustic continuum but ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:03 AM - Feb 28/2012
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording

Novi_sad - Inhumane Humans

CD - Sub Rosa
Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:29 AM - Dec 5/2011
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . impro

Mark Templeton - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:05 AM - Nov 29/2011
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recording

CM von Hausswolff - 800 000 Seconds in Harar

CD - Touch
When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to write music for a play about the life of the "damned poet", has ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:04 PM - Nov 24/2011
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recording

AAVV - Table For Six: All Quiet? #3

CD - EE Tapes
EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:21 PM - Nov 2/2011
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abstract . drone . experimental

Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events

CD - Dekorder
Recorded in Oslo between 2006 and 2010, then mixed in Berlin, "Shadow Of Events" is the third solo album by Alexander Rishaug, a sound-artist prone to the use of field recordings, modulated together with various electronic devices and both traditional and non-traditional instruments. The sound ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:50 AM - Oct 12/2011
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drone . experimental . impro . noise

Merzbow & Balázs Pándi - Ducks: Live In NYC

CD - Ohm Resistance,
Merzbow, AKA Masami Akita, needs no introduction. This pioneer of "noise" is well-known in the international experimental scenes for his sophisticated yet raw, “free jazz” attitude. Balázs Pándi is also quite well-known in the more extreme avant-garde "enclaves" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:16 PM - Oct 3/2011
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drone . experimental . field recording . soundscape

Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello - Age of Insects

CD - Dragon's Eye
This latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl in Stephen Vitiello's Viginia studio between May 2009 and January 2010. The sound pieces in question, organized into ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:23 AM - Sep 6/2011
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acoustic/digital . ambient . audio art . drone . soundscapes

Emanuele Errante - Time Elapsing Handheld

CD - Karaoke Kalk
Digital-acoustic mixes, delicate lullabies and ambient scores. Overlapping textures sometimes develop from a single note, among meandering drones and clear harmonic articulations. All of Emanuele Errante’s electro-acoustic wisdom comes together in the seven tracks (including two bonus ones in the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:42 PM - Jun 28/2011
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ambient . audio art . drone . noise

Philippe Petit - Scores Henry: The Iron Man

CD - Aagoo
Inserted in our player, this CD immediately plays anxious sounds - dreamy and visionary - reminiscent of the original soundtrack of the movie mentioned in the cover artwork - "Eraserhead" - the first feature film by David Lynch, a cult director who is also often ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:30 AM - Jun 16/2011
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audio art . drone . soundscapes

Blake Carrington - Cathedral Scan

CD - Dragon Eye
In this project by Blake Carrington the architectural plans of the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral are subtly decoded and transmuted into open orchestral scores, full of different rhythms, drones and textures. The album - recorded live in those sacred spaces - makes use of ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:45 AM - Jun 3/2011
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drone . experimental . minimal . soundscapes

Lugano Fell - Slice Repair

CD - Baskaru
Lugano Fell is a solo project by James Taylor, a founding member of the tech house duo Swayzak, a combo that for more than a decade has been active in the field of electronic-dance. Taylor - apparently - must have wanted to take a break to try a different approach, one even more abstract and cinematic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:55 AM - Apr 26/2011
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acoustic . ambient . audio art . drone . experimental

Olan Mill - Pine

CD - Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill - two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with elegant and solemn jumps that are modulated throughout the scores. The melodious succession of pipe organ and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:04 AM - Mar 3/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . laptop . post rock

DiRac - Phon

CD - Valeot
Many laptops combined with several acoustic instruments – this is a set-up focused on pattern building, iteration on different levels through precise manipulations designed to modulate tones, resonance and vibration. Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger and Daniel Lerche, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:01 AM - Feb 7/2011
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acoustic/digital . audio art . drone . experimental

David First - Privacy Issues [Droneworks 1996-2009]

3CD - XI Records
David First’s debut album with XI Records sees the experienced guitarist and composer working alongside such luminaries as “Blue" Gene Tyranny, Peter Zummo, Chris McIntyre and The Black Jackets Ensemble. The work features drones, dilated harmonies and diverse ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Jan 4/2011
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acoustic . audio art . drone . field recordings

AAVV - E84

CD - Entr'acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr'acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated strings and harmonics, before the second track, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Dec 21/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . soundscapes

Philip Jeck - An Ark For The Listener

CD - Touch
An early version of "An Ark For The Listener" was performed by Philip Jeck at Kings Place in London in February 2010: an aesthetic sound composition heavily inspired by verse 33 of "The Wreck of the Deutschland", a 1923 poem composed ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:41 AM - Dec 3/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental

Mike Vernusky - Music For Film And Electro-Theatre

CD -Quiet Design
Metallic drones, forced puffing sounds, sub-frequencies and sculptural space-induced drifts: thus begins “Music For Film And Electro-Theatre", the latest project of Mike Vernusky, who is, along with Cory Allen, the co-curator of Quiet Design Records, an experimental and eclectic label based in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 27/2010
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acoustic . drone . experimental . free form

Ignatz - Mort Aux Vaches

CD - Mort Aux Vaches
In Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work generates dense drones that are infused with many influences (blues, postrock, improvisation, world ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 2/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Marcus Maeder - Annex

MiniCD - Domizil
In architecture, an "annex" area is typically an extension of the main building. Similarly, the engravings on this mini CD complement and supplement what Marcus Maeder has achieved in his latest project, "Subsegmental" ‚ a release published in the summer of 2009 by Domizil, a label ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 07:09 PM - Oct 28/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . microsound

Richard Chartier - A Field For Mixing

CD - Room40
After activating the player, all you hear in the room - a place dedicated to listening - is the laptop fan and some noise coming from the road, and no sound from the speakers. Four minutes pass before you begin to hear something in the background. A carpet of sound slowly creeps in; dilated and ethereal. "A Field For Mixing" by Richard Chartier, indulges in microsound intransigence, connecting with ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 19/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings

Eric La Casa - Zone Sensible 2 / Dundee 2

CD - Room 40
This record presents natural and artificial events; brittle audio emergencies that seem conditioned by the same sound frequency registries. In Zone Sensible 2, only apparently converging oscillations, digital swarms with hybrid features and a a frantic microcosm that is very exposed and reactive are carefully crafted to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 11/2010
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drone . electronica . experimental

Semuin - Circles And Elephants

CD - Ahornfelder
Provinces, the seminal 2005 album with which Jochen Briesen, using the moniker Semuin, triggered his personal research, was a collaboration with Anne Laplantine (aka Angelika Koehlermann), and was mastered by Greg Davis, another well-known musician in the niche areas of experimental-electronic sound. Since then a lot has happened and now, in the same ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:05 AM - Sep 9/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts

@C - Music For Empty Spaces

CD - Baskaru
Non-places, uninhabitable spaces on the edge of several fascinating layers and fractures and delicate and extremely sensitive aural presences.These are the aesthetics of a parallel universe in which abstract experiments live, along with field recordings, ghostly melodies, environmental drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 4/2010
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