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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele - Les Couleurs Ne Meuvent Pas Les Peuples

CD - Persistencebit
The new project by Mario Masullo & Andrea Gabriele is replete with divergent inspirations. They are both sound designers who are well-versed in several genres, manipulating both acoustic instruments and laptops/electronic devices with equal skill. Compared to their earlier productions, the duo seem to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:40 AM - Mar 21/2010
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experimental . folktronica . free form

Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj

CD - Ghost Box
Straight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:30 AM - Mar 16/2010
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acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica

Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be

CD - Ahornfelder
The harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:04 AM - Oct 29/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . soundscapes

Nole Plastique - Escaperhead

CD - Nexsound
Strange hybrid sound jumps, somewhere between pop, glitchy folktronics, psychedelia and more contemporary soundscapes are some of the specific ideas that meet in the work of atypical composers like Andrei Kiritchenko. The owner of the Nexsound brand is also a digital experimenter and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:54 AM - Jan 9/2009
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acoustic/digital . experimental . folktronica . microsound

Saralunden & Andrey Kiritchenko - There Was No End

CD - Nexsound
The collaboration between Andrey Kiritchenko and Saralunden was able to originate this transversal lo-fi folktronica with many delicate overtones. It's a collaborative project supported by the Swedish Institute in May 2006 and then culminated in the spring 2007 tour. The sound trajectories are able to almost ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:29 PM - Apr 22/2008
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experimental . folktronica

Savvas Ysatis + Taylor Dupree - The Sleeeping Morning

CD - 12K
This release could be seen as a sort of 'reunion', the reunion of Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Dupree after ten years of different choices. Together, they seem to recapture the conceptual approach of their origins (Futique, Arc, Seti...these were their monikers in the early Nineties), and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:47 AM - Dec 13/2007
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folktronica . glitch'n'cuts . microsound

Orla Wren - Butterfly Wings Make

CD - Expanding Records
The atypical multimedia artist Orla Wren goes around Scotland in his motorhome, composing extremely delicate music, selling pictures of plants and insects, macros of organic life taken by himself, with an existential attitude halfway between a freak from the Seventies and a Twelfth Century ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Oct 21/2006
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