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Using deceptively simple elements - piano, guitar, synths and the occasional angelic vocal sample, John Beltran has done a majestic job on The Season Series of channeling the beauty and fragility of nature, as well as capturing its state of constant flux.
Andy Stott's music is defined by the ever-present feeling of friction, the rub of needles bouncing into the red zone on a bank of dials. But this is tempered by a languid sensuality.
Every January for the last couple of years, I’ve compiled a listening-list of releases for the year ahead. For one thing, this helps avoid feeling helpless in the face of the limitless choice offered by the internet, the various streaming services and the huge (and ever expanding) amount of music available, whether free, subscribed to … Continue reading New Year’s Resolutions
These are some of the releases I'll be making time for in 2021, for one reason or another. The list is a constant work in progress, so if you have a recommendation for something that should be on there, I'd love to hear it. AceMo – All My Life Picked this up from a Fact … Continue reading This year I will be mostly listening to…
Black Sea is an album of contrasts, and the possibilities that emerge with the combination of opposing elements.
Each of the four extended tracks on Agora is an all-encompassing monolithic wash of sound, with few aural landmarks to guide you once you’re in the midst of it. But despite their towering stature that’s not to say the music isn’t pretty - it’s lovely.
Fennesz - Black Sea (2008). I find myself listening to much more ambient music these days, as an appropriate backdrop for days spent working from home. Austrian artist, Christian Fennesz is often lauded for the very unusual way he makes use of the guitar in his music: combining it with digital effects to produce something … Continue reading 10/08/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Kettel - My Dogan (2006). The Dutch musician, Reimer Eising, aka Kettel, is something of a rarity in electronic music circles (especially those tagged with the joyless term ‘IDM’) in that his tracks are by and large, exceedingly jolly. In what tends to be a very self-consciously serious genre of music, generated by circuit boards … Continue reading 30/07/20 This week I have been mostly listening to…
Global Communication - 76:14 (1994). I am nowhere near the first to say it, but what an incredible album this is. 76:14 will no doubt be considered by many as the peak of the early 90s ambient house / listening techno scene (explosion is much too vigourous a term for such chilled out music). 76:14 … Continue reading 20/05/20 This week I have been mostly listening to
Bogdan Raczynski - Rave Till You Cry (2019). I’d pretty much given up hope on hearing anything more from Bogdan Raczynski (one time renegade Drill’n’bass maverick shock disc-jock extraordinaire) after reading some years ago that he had officially retired from releasing music. And to be fair this album is not new material, so I don’t … Continue reading 20/03/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to
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