Skodvin has been a favourite in these parts for yonks, whether under his own name, as Svarte Greiner, or as half of Deaf Center. This short is album of short tracks, 9 of them in 23 minutes. His juddering strings and floating analogue synths are at their darkly atmospheric best, and supplemented here by sighing, […]
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KMRU: Natur (digital, Touch, July 2024)
I am happy to admit that my feelings about this kind of music are highly subjective. After all, this album consists largely of various rather quiet buzzing type noises, synth “melodies” that often consist of two very long notes (or occasionally even just one: you may think that this is not possible, but I suggest […]
For some reason, the youtube music algorithm decided to suggest this to me — presumably on the basis that back in the day I rinsed both Steve Gunn’s Live At The Night Light album and his collaboration with Mike Gangloff, Melodies For A Savage Fix… although these both came out about a decade ago, so […]
Raymond Scott’s 1963 triple album of pioneering electronic music is an iconic thing. So you might think that for Dylan Henner to cover half a dozen tracks from it is brave, proud, foolish, or some combination of all those things (even if he was, apparently, motivated by wanting to have a more up-to-date version to […]
I’m quite surprised to find that this is the first record I’ve bought on Nyege Nyege Tapes, who describe themselves as “a Kampala based label … releasing outsider music from around the region and beyond”. I’ve certainly listened to a bunch over the years. Anyway, there was no way I could resist this one. It […]
I am a big fan of both Rafael Anton Irisarri and Abul Mogard (even if the retired Serbian factory worker story has now, I think, been thoroughly debunked) and so I was obviously excited to hear this. And what a joy it is. There are two lengthy tracks of wonderfully soul-nourishing melodic ambient fuzzy hugs. […]
This is kind of a fascinating mash-up of genres. As a starting point, let’s take that kind of folk–drone crossover thing where you get hypnotically repeating banjo and pedal steel lines and a bit of fiddle over what sounds like a hurdy-gurdy but may in this instance be bagpipes. Then let’s layer in some stuff […]
I have a feeling that ‘deconstructed’ is one of my more overused words in this blog. But I’m afraid it has to get another outing today. I guess you could describe this as dub rave. There are lots of fragments of good old hardcore in here, but they’re all chopped up and swathed in reverb. […]
A bit out of my normal orbit, this one. I didn’t find it through any of my normal sources, but — gasp! — I heard a track from it on the actual radio, and liked it enough to look out the album. I’m glad I did. I think this is the first pretty much straight-up […]
Jerrilynn Patton may have started out as one of RP Boo’s most promising disciples, you only need to glance at the list of collaborators on Akoma to guess that this isn’t your standard issue footwork LP: Björk, the Kronos Quartet, and Philip Glass. Bang, bang, and banger. A lesser record could easily be overwhelmed by […]
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