This one kind of snuck up on me. I gave it a listen because (a) I have fond memories of 2015’s Yellow Bell, and (b) it has a cool name. My initial reaction to the first few minutes was that it was nice but unremarkable. And yet by the end of that first listen I […]
Amosphère is a “Chinese-born, Paris-based composer and multidisciplinary artist”. And on this record, she has provided three very thoughtful pieces for us to delve into. Land Of Eternal Delight immediately captured my interest with its curious, wheezing sound. It features hand-made ceramic instruments, flute, and apparently trumpet although that’s quite well disguised, all cycling over […]
Back in the mid-to-late-noughties, when I was in my ubercoolische minimal techno phase, I loved the sounds of the Tunisian–German Loco Dice. His output (often in collaboration with Martin Buttrich) was quite varied, and I loved pretty much all of it, from the stripped back tracks on M_nus like Seeing Through Shadows to the lusher […]
Now for something a little bit special. Annie A is a one-off collaboration. I confess that the only name I really recognize is Félicia Atkinson, who I finally got into with 2022’s Image Language. The other participants are the poet Christine Petrie, collage-based storytellers Time Is Away, and singer-songwriter Maxine Funke — all of whom […]
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 […]
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 […]
dogrando writes about some records 