Despite an initial attempt at scepticism, I have become a fully paid up member of the Abul Mogard fan club over the years. Still, I confess that I did briefly try to resist the charms of this record. Did I really (I asked myself) need another album of big vworgy buzzy analogue synth based ambient […]
Author: dogrando
Can you believe that it’s been six years since Low Distance? I honestly cannot. And it’s been fourteen since Owl Splinters, which was something of a transformational record in the evolution of your humble blogger’s musical taste. Well, they’re back performing together, and it’s as richly, bewitchingly wonderful as ever. These two ~17 minute pieces […]
Dillon’s first solo album, Workaround, was a highlight of 2020, and was rightly hailed in all the right places as marking the arrival of a sparkling new talent. She doesn’t seem to have been super prolific since then, and I confess that some of the stuff she has released didn’t quite do it for me. […]
The first time I heard this, I was blown away by the sheer technical bravado of it. Djrum (the ‘j’ is silent), aka DJ and producer Felix Manuel, starts with improvised-sounding piano which has a lightness and fluidity that is like dancing fireflies in musical form. He layers on synths, strings (cello is by Zosia […]
This solo debut from Deniz Omeroglu (described as Istanbul-born, Amsterdam-based) is very much an album of two halves. Happily, she plays an absolute blinder in both. The first half was apparently composed spontaneously in the aftermath of a heartbreak, and consists of contemplative, woozy synth tracks. There are largely wordless vocals, of a sighing nature, […]
A rare back-catalogue purchase for me. Eliane Radigue is obviously someone I’ve listened to loads and loved, but I’ve never actually bought any of her work because of some vaguely-motivated feeling that I should prefer to shove my pennies in the direction of new releases. But I find myself coming back to this particular record […]
I don’t often buy compilation albums, and this is roughly speaking one — and, in fact, I nearly didn’t buy it. I listened to it when it came out last November, obviously, and at the time I passed it over. I think I rather sniffily opined that it didn’t cohere as an album. Coming back […]
I don’t know about you, but it’s been properly spring for a couple of weeks here. And the sun always puts me in the mood for a certain kind of bosh: something warm and melodic and gently propulsive. This record has been very much ticking that box for me this year. We have six tracks […]
This is lush stuff from Réka Csiszér, who is described as a Hungarian Transylvanian vocalist, composer and performer. For the most part, it’s all vworgey synths and a bit of wordless chanting. Though it’s entirely beatless, the tone varies from the ethereal (at their floatiest, the vocals have a touch of Ligeti to them) to […]
Yo yo yo, it’s another Basinski, this time in working with Richard Chartier, and blow me if it isn’t another flipping masterpiece. For the most part, this is a more classically minimal affair than the Basinski / Schaefer collab from a couple of years ago. The opening two minutes of this are the exception: they […]
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