A strange year with death licking the boundaries of my world, delicate sound still sneaks in and reminds you of a lighter world. At the moment it is a battle between the crow and the owl. I hope the owl wins.
Beneva vs Clark Nova – Sombunall (Fenetre)
All over the shop precision genre munching electronic weirdo’s. They are too intelligent to sound like anything you know and yet reference all you know, undercut it and throw it back in your face. Somehow I still want more.
Akira Kosemura – Tiny Musical (Schole)
Sparkling beauty in delicate brittle sound scapes always sneaks home.
RF & Lili De La Mora – Eleven Continents
Even with it’s slightly naff poetry that moves towards the new age it is a wonderful sonic text of a guitar master and electronic native.
Oliver Mann – The Possum wakes at night. (Preservation)
What can I say; Oliver is my local librarian who has been feeding me texts for the last few years. Eat local and surprise yourself to listen beyond boundaries of your generation for enhanced understanding and clarity of the breadth and depth of musical life.
Johan Johannsson – Forlandia (4AD)
It is time for the electronica generation to storm the concert halls. Some just were there all along.
Pateras/Baxter/Brown – Interference (emd.pl/records/008)
Local experimental crew continues blasting apart music. At the end will there be only pure tone? Are your instruments such prison guards that you continue to abuse them for your life sentence? Why do we come back for more?
Emiliana Torrini – Me and Armini (Rough Trade)
Well yes Mr. Baxter I am ‘a sucker for metaphysics’ and also for a well crafted pop sensibility that doesn’t condescend or attempt to be avant gardist. A pleasure to behold not a doom laden breath to be heard.
Christophe Bailleau & Neal Williams – On Soft Mountains We Work Magic (Fenetre)
Bright intelligent melancholic, rich and full. There are not enough adjectives available to gush with here.
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