Claire Rousay ‘Everything Perfect Is Already Here’ (Shelter Press)bySpenser TomsonMay 12, 2022 Often when a track is built around swathes of samples and snippets of found sound, it can create…
Read More 1 minute read Sarah Davachi ‘Figures In Open Air’ (Late Music)bySpenser TomsonJanuary 28, 2021 As a companion piece to her most recent album, ‘Cantus, Descant’, Canadian musician and composer Sarah Davachi releases…
Read More 1 minute read Maths Balance Volumes ‘A Year Closer’ (Penultimate Press)bySpenser TomsonJanuary 28, 2021 If an album like The Caretaker’s ‘Selected Memories From The Haunted Ballroom’ summons up the spectral resonances of…
Read More 1 minute read J Peter Schwalm & Arve Henriksen ‘Neuzeit’ (RareNoise)bySpenser TomsonJanuary 28, 2021 This collaboration between the German composer J Peter Schwalm and Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henrikson feels almost elemental, as…
Read More 1 minute read Charlemagne Palestine ‘theeOorgannnissstheeGgreattestttSsynthesizerrrEverrrrr’ (Meakusma)bySpenser TomsonJanuary 28, 2021 Like a super time-stretched diminished chord, infinitely punctuating the terrifying twist of some real-life horror movie, ‘theeOorgan…’ slowly…
Read More 1 minute read Merzbow, Mats Gustafsson and Balás Pándi ‘Cuts Open’ (RareNoise)bySpenser TomsonNovember 19, 2020 Over 40 years of activity, Japanese musician Masami “Merzbow” Akita has created and collaborated on so many records…
Read More 1 minute read Blue States ‘Nothing Changes Under The Sun’ (Memphis Industries)bySpenser TomsonNovember 19, 2020 Originally released in 2000, Memphis Industries are reissuing Andy Dragazis’ misplaced gem for its 20th anniversary. While there…
Read More 1 minute read Rafael Toral ‘Aeriola Frequency’ (Black Truffle)bySpenser TomsonNovember 19, 2020 Portuguese producer/composer Rafael Toral has built the delicately reverberating soundscapes of ‘Aeriola Frequency’ by manipulating electronic feedback loops…
Read More 1 minute read Jacaszek ‘Gardenia’ (Touch)bySpenser TomsonNovember 19, 2020 Using field recordings collected in the subtropical Gardenia region of South Africa, Polish musician and composer Michael Jacaszek…
Read More 1 minute read Johnny Woods ‘Pavilions’ (Behind The Sky)bySpenser TomsonNovember 8, 2020 Describing ‘Pavilions’ as a piece of “eco-futurism”, New Mexico-based Johnny Woods takes the new worlds he created on…