Thanks to a visit with my friend Joe, whose music taste is impeccable for things like drone, old prog and Killing Joke, I figured I’d spend my evening looking for good, psych-y, droney things to listen to. Kikagaku Moyo caught my attention by sounding like a slightly more updated version of Acid Mothers Temple. A good, stony listen.
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[Music] Marina Toshich – Haifa
Marina Toshich is an oud player from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, now residing in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She has a body of work interpreting some absolutely stunning music for her chosen instrument.
[Music] Machinefabriek & Philippe Petit – Angry Ambient Artists Vol.1 — Yeah I Know It Sucks
artists: Machinefabriek & Philippe Petit title: Angry Ambient Artists Vol.1 keywords: ambient drone electro-acoustic industrial noise Manchester label: Forwind http://www.forwind.net/ On side a there is the very angry ambient artist named ‘Machinefabriek’ with an angry ambient track named ‘Graniet’. The high pitched beeps do certainly hit a nervous angry nerve in my very angry ambient […]
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[Music] Various Artists – Summer (from a closer listen blog)
Earlier this year, the Bigo & Twigetti label asked its artists to contribute a personal reflection of summer. This compilation is the result. Summer is a potpourri of presentations that opens up the question, “What does summer sound like?” For this listener, summer sounds like the opening track, Pavel Karmanaov‘s “Michael Music”: ebullient, with sparks and ocean droplets […]
[Music] Jönsson Tõll & Mauno Koivisto – Mulla Ei Oo Aavistustakaan Mitä Tää Kaikki Paska Suomeksi Tarkoittaa
Two identities, one artist. Jönsson Tõll is a composer who is based out of Portugal. This release features some of his own work, plus more under his working monicker, Mauno Koivisto. Of of the most beautifully bleak techno albums I’ve heard in ages.
[Music] Enrico Coniglio ~ Bragos series: Astrùra / Solèra — a closer listen
There are different schools of thought when it comes to the production of “soundscapes.” There is R. Murray Schafer, who coined the term, and his World Soundscape Project, which approaches the soundscape as “acoustic ecology.” Some have criticized his approach as nostalgic, with romantic notions of pre-industrial life, constructing a division between nature and […]
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[Music] Jonáš Gruska – Nočné oscilácie pre jedného
Jonáš Gruska is a composer out of Slovakia who works in the medium of electroacoustic music, only using updated techniques. Lots of glitch, loops, and drones make for some very engaging compositions.
[Music] Lawrence English – Approaching Nothing — music won’t save you
LAWRENCE ENGLISH – Approaching Nothing (Baskaru, 2016) Non della sola costruzione di cattedrali di suono attraverso il trattamento elettronico di drone è fatta l’arte di Lawrence English, ma di una ricerca a tutto tondo degli aspetti percettivi di un universo di impulsi auditivi originati da fonti concrete e catturati in maniera più o meno accidentale. […]
[Music] 45 Brothers – Showtime b/w The Zone — Flea Market Funk
It’s good to see a 45 like “Showtime” by 45 Brothers come out. With a B Boy mindset and a definite hip hop pedigree, this forty five, no doubt is strictly for my breakers, my uprockers, and my people that want to get down. Like seriously get down. High octane and tempo with plenty of […]
[Music] Steve Jansen – Slope
Steve Jansen is best remembered for his work playing percussion for New Wave darlings Japan, but has gone on to making more sophisticated jazz/ambient recordings not unlike the music Talk Talk was making near their swansong.
A Miscellany Of Tasteful Music 