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Ephraim Wegner & Julia Weinmann - Eins Bis Sechzehn

CD - Crónica
A hotel in ruins, burdened with memories and environments evocative of fascinating decadence. Here are spaces that became uninhabitable, now only remotely reminiscent of the splendour of the 60s through 80s, during which period the tourist industry embraced an approach that leaned ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:19 AM - Apr 9/2013
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experimental . soundscapes

Belbury Poly - The Belbury Tales

CD - Ghost Box
Under the moniker Belbury Poly hides the experimenter and musician Jim Jupp, head honcho of Ghost Box Music, a label he co-founded. There is a definite British sensibility to this record with psychedelia, folk and progressive rock influences all present. We also find allusions to medieval music, eccentric ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:17 AM - Jul 12/2012
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experimental . post rock . soundscapes

Gator Bait Ten - Harvester

CD - Ohm Resistence
The grooves of “Harvester” offer a very shady, almost maniacal sound, characterized by slow cadences and post-rock influences. Gator Bait Ten, comprising M. Gregor Filip, Simon J. Smerdon, Kurt Submerged and Ted Parson, imprint very particular atmospheres that are both melancholic and fascinating. The group ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - May 8/2012
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Yann Novak - Presence

CD - Hibernate
The recordings made for Presence were originally conceived by Yann Novak for a sound performance held at VOLUME, a curated event at the Torrance Art Museum in June 2010. The sound captures were made on that occasion using a cell phone. The same sounds were then digitally processed, significantly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:57 AM - Mar 22/2012
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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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experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station

CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves with audio productions that are somehow correlated with architectures and abandoned spaces, be they buildings or disused structures, old ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:56 AM - Feb 7/2012
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Burkhard Friedrich - Città Utopica

CD - Ahornfelder
The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:09 PM - Jan 2/2012
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Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1

CD - Kafkagarden
In "Music Library 1" Marcus Fjellström takes inspiration from classic music libraries - collections of sounds that were used in sixties and seventies movies and low cost television productions. The result is a lovely mash-up between classic ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 02:40 PM - Oct 20/2011
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electronica . impro . soundscapes

Nicola Ratti - 220 Tones

CD - Die Schachtel
Analog synthesizers, a Farfisa organ, turntables, a tape recorder, a CRT TV: all devices that have no reason to exist without electricity. The relationship between the instruments and the electric continuum is precisely the research ground upon which are unraveled the seven distinct tracks that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:56 AM - Jul 21/2011
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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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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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AAVV - Electric Carpets [Part 2 Of 2]

CD - Record Label Records
Abstract sound design and experimental atmospheres meet a fusion style, mixing electro-acoustic beats and creating an artificial and frantic post-IDM pastiche. Record Label Records, a record label founded in 1996, is headed in a rather unconventional way by Robbie Martin, aka Fluorescent Grey, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:06 AM - May 26/2011
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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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ambient . audio art . experimental . soundscapes

Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden

CD - Endgame
Gail Priest - Presentiments From The Spider Garden Articulating field recordings in a fairly evocative way, with dilated drones and vocal interventions, using both digital techniques and acoustic instruments, the Australian sound-artist Gail Priest unravels in "Presentiments From The Spider Garden " a whole compendium of aural starts and dreamlike ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:11 AM - Mar 8/2011
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Andreas Bick - Fire And Frost Pattern

CD - Gruen
No metaphor - even in the art world, with its more experimental and avant-garde latitudes - exceeds the immediate fascination that the hot-cold dualism manages to evoke. The extremes - as Eastern philosophy teaches us - are to some extent complementary; they transform into each other, are ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 10:52 AM - Mar 1/2011
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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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Frank Holger Rothkamm - Birth Of Primary Cinema From The Spirit Of Sound

Dvd - Flux
As the third episode of a digital, esoteric and contemporary tetralogy, which began with "Ghost Of New York", in "Birth Of Primary Cinema From The Spirit Of Sound" Frank Holger Rothkamm still effectively penetrates urban landscapes, putting a fixed camera at ground level during the night, picking ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 23/2010
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@C - 0° – 100°

CD - Monochrome Vision
From Monochrome Vision, a label in Moscow dedicated to contemporary electronic sound experimentations, comes an interesting project signed by @C, the duo of Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais, an ensemble well known to the "aficionados" of particularly abstract and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Nov 6/2010
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Christophe Charles / i8u - Unter Den Linden / Und Transit

CD - Non Visual Objects
The timely recording of a concert by Christophe Charles at the SND Studios in Sheffield, England, in March 2009, gave birth to a performance that goes by the intriguing title, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" The work evokes dimly lit environments, containing deep and disturbing breathing sounds alongside field recordings. Tormenting atmospheres, following the death of the composer's ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 26/2010
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electronica . experimental . industrial . soundscapes

Lowness - Undertow

CD - Ant-Zen
Dark ambient sounds, subtle and powerful in their krautrock influences, modulated in highly experimental passages, make Scott Sturgis' comeback particularly fascinating. Sturgis is a producer from Seattle better known as Converter, an important power noise project and the forefather of a certain kind of Ant-Zen sound. The music now, moving on from his period of industrial and rhythmic sequences, evolves through subdued ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Oct 9/2010
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audio art . drone . experimental . soundscapes

Max Eastley - Installation Recordings (1973 - 2008)

2CD - Paradigm Discs
An essential retrospective of Max Eastley's sound installations, a prolific artist who's been active since the late sixties. The oldest works presented here were made in 1973, the year when, in addition to gallery exhibitions and collaborations with Thomas Koner and film director Peter Greenaway, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Sep 2/2010
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ambient . drone . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Francisco Lopez - Amarok

CD - Glacial Movements
Extremely dilated drones, yet not too immaterial, redundant in their progressive slips of many sound layers. Microtones, someone calls them, but there's nothing minimalist in such a soundscape. Just consider the title, "Amarok", the name of a giant wolf in Inuit mythology, a people obviously accustomed to the extremes of an uninhabitable nature, where the sea and the abyss are clearly ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:00 AM - Aug 22/2010
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acoustic/digital . experimental . free form . soundscapes

Nommo Ogo - Across Time And Space

CD - Record Label
Rather emotional and psychedelic electronica, with strong melodic ingredients and space-future influences. Nommo Ogo, a combo hailing from the glacial latitudes of Alaska recorded this album in the United States, in California, Colorado and Oregon, arranging plots that are unraveled - contrarily - in a ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:21 PM - Mar 22/2010
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Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:38 PM - Feb 1/2010
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RTX - Radio Tower Xchange

CD- Rixc
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:31 PM - Jan 29/2010
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abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes

An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music

4CD - Subrosa
Editor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:53 AM - Dec 31/2009
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Robert Hampson - Vectors

CD - Touch
Three dense and acousmatic tracks, in which Robert Hampson displays unconventional attitudes in very imaginative ways, are devoted to the construction of complex soundscapes. The plots are constructed with great care for the pauses; the ones in 'Umbra' - quote from Latin referring to the darker area ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:23 AM - Nov 15/2009
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Dj Olive - Triage

CD - Room 40
A long time has passed since some non-mainstream scenes started talking about 'illbient', a word coined - in fact - by DJ Olive that better defined and promoted, during the early 90s, the new production trends in ambient music. Very rarefied sound passages, lying somewhere between hip hop ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:00 AM - Feb 1/2009
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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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abstract . electronica . soundscapes

Men In Speedos - At A Kalamazoo Near You

CD - Red Label
Red Records is a label that has been based in Belfast since 1998. It is characterized by eclectic music expression, and was founded by Gawain Morrison and Shane McCourt - the embryonic nucleus of Men In Speedos – who where later joined by Derek Jones. Twinkle Fingers, Uberbeard and Chooch (their ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:24 PM - Dec 1/2008
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Janek Schaefer - Alone At Last

CD - Sirr
Oneiric sequences, field recordings and tonal harmonies, disruptions and modulated restarts. Sensitive settings, audio fragments, sound excerpts from an old Spanish movie. A virtuoso flamenco guitar and delicate yet invasive drones, like entering the core of a sophisticated abstract map with multiple ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 04:19 PM - Sep 17/2008
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ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes

Various Artists - Favourite Places

CD - Audiobulb
Non-imaginary places, strictly related to the authors' dreams and intimate thoughts. They are "favourite places" because "there are places in the world where we come back later", "places that retain something precious feeding us". Ten sound artists were involved, starting with Taylor Deupree and his "space" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 06:28 PM - Jun 6/2008
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ambient . deep . electronica . soundscapes

Pridon - Apnea Eina

CD - Low Impedance
Pridon a.k.a. Petros Voudouris structures a quiet and enjoyable electronica, influenced by many different styles including techno, electro, IDM, dub and even an ounce of seventies psychedelia. This tissues are then carefully reassembled mixing different "spices", but nevertheless the accessible moments are not ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:59 PM - Apr 5/2008
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Steve Peters - Three Rooms

CD - Sirr
Tactile iterations, delicate abrasions (this is the title of the first track), meeting of surfaces and materials in an old warehouse in Santa Fé, New Mexico, where nails, dust, revolving doors, metal, glass and wood gave birth to recordings of physical experiences, but also to mental environments, placing the listeners ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:26 PM - Oct 18/2007
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ambient . drone . electronica . experimental . soundscapes

The Missing Ensemble - Zeropolis

CD - Low Impedance
Silent architectures, barren urban landscapes, empty and corrupted spaces, a general dystopic vision of the future of our cities seems to pervade the inspired 'Zeropolis' project, made by The Missing Ensemble (Daniel De Los Santos, John Sellekaers and Mathias Delplanque). Skilled in manipulating drones and ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:14 AM - Oct 4/2007
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