I guess this record could be considered a bit of retro, if you’re the kind of geeky individual who can get nostalgic about a kind of electroacoustic drone music which was ‘popular’ in (I would say) the early ’10s but isn’t made so much any more. Reader, I am that geeky individual. So… Improvised tunes […]
The title of this record is a reference to the fact that Kaya Fyah was born in 1994, which was essentially the year that jungle emerged as a popular form. (Apparently this makes her thirty — subs please check, ‘cos that doesn’t sound right at all…) Oh, and her dad just happens to be Congo […]
Obviously I lovelovelove Alva Noto. And I lapped up the first three volumes of the Xerrox series. In particular, I raved about the third installment, and I consider Xerrox Isola to be eight minutes of music that are about as close to perfection as any I’ve heard. Four summers ago, I very much enjoyed number […]
I described Lex Amor’s debut, Government Tropicana, as “super laid-back”. Well, I think she’s mellowed in the intervening four years. This is positively horizontal. Her vocals take more of a back-seat, and in particular the low-key pyrotechnics of the freestyle tracks on that mixtape are dialled right back here. To the fore are hazy atmospheric […]
I’m pretty sure this (Owens fourth album, and the first since her eponymous debut that I’ve shelled out for) isn’t the classiest thing I’ve been listening to recently. Resident Advisor, say, were decidedly sniffy about it. Well, nuts to it. From the cheery trance of the opening track, Dark Angel, to the strings-and-piano electro-folk of […]
Chevaliers, the last LP from this French–Israeli duo (okay, they say they are from “Jerusalem and Lotharingia”, the latter of which existed in some form between 855 and 959 C.E. and straddled modern-day France and Germany… but they also say that they’ve lived in Lorraine, which ended up in the French side… and she sounds […]
Oh wow oh wow oh wow. This is astonishing work from Davachi. If you are into pipe organ-heavy drone then it is must listen. Actually, I think it’s a must relisten, because it’s easy to miss stuff the first time around. The album is just over an hour and a half long, so I realize […]
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 […]
