There’s something special about this. I gotta admit, I find a lot of dub techno pleasant but samey. This LP finds New York’s Kenzo Perron doing something which is, broadly speaking, dub techno, but very much doing it his own way. At times it feels like he’s deconstructing the genre a bit like Spatial did […]
This must be the most song-based record I’ve bought in a long time. Roxanne’s voice is strong and clear, with clean production and right up front in the mix. I find it rather compelling. Sometimes she’s singing over simple neoclassical piano lines; sometimes over a synth drone and some minimal strings; sometimes there is a […]
Nobody could accuse Vida of shilly-shallying about here. The first track very quickly establishes the template for this album: he and experimental vocalist Nina Dante declaim found poetry in a monotone, the two of them in perfect synchronicity so that their voices sound like two halves of a single entity, over a backing of new-agey […]
Well, now. Graham Massey out of 808 State and Brian Dougans out of Future Sound Of London (under his solo alias Humanoid), collaborating in the year of our lord 2026? Don’t mind if I do. It even has artwork by Strictly Kev and DJ Food (credited here as Openmind). The acid sounds you’d expect are […]
I’m writing back-to-back posts about solo works for cello, electronics, and occasional voice, but this is very different to the Dobrawa Czocher album last week. We’re in much more experimental territory. From the start, the cello is thumped and scraped as well as bowed. Two- or three-note motifs repeat, mutate, stretch, fade in and out. […]
In which your humble blogger, once again, falls for a nice bit of neoclassical cello. Czocher’s style leans to the dramatic: there is an urgency to the pacing, and a pulsing rhythmic element to her playing, alongside some stirring melodies. Apparently she was inspired by a recent move from Warsaw to Poland’s Baltic coast, and […]
I would imagine that, for composer and sound artist Matthew Patton, being given access to the late, great Jóhann Jóhannsson‘s studio hard drives after his death (at the age of just 48, and in his prime) must have been both thrilling and an intimidating responsibility. The record he has produced feels respectful, and also happens […]
I feel kind of bad that my first four purchases of the year have all involved artists who I already know and love (albeit one of them with a new-to-me collaborator, and one in a new-to-me solo guise). But this is Irisarri in his pomp, and I wasn’t going to pass that up, was I? […]
Caterina Barbieri is a firm favourite of mine. Her contributions to this are instantly recognizable, all cascading loops of lovely analogue synth. There is a split between fast-mode Barbieri and slow-mode Barbieri, in Patterns Of Consciousness terms. It’s good stuff. Bendik Giske is new to me, and I have to say that, while jazzy saxophone […]
These two twenty-minute tracks from the mighty Christina Vantzou may be the most deep-listening-oriented work of hers that I’ve encountered. In fact, I confess that the first time I heard it, I had it on while I was concentrating on something else, and it kind of slid by without my really noticing. I’m glad that […]
dogrando writes about some records 