Piipstjilling – Wurdskrieme (Experimedia)
The slowly unraveling spools of crisp, warm digital tone on the opening few pieces of…
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Pierre Boulez/John Cage – Structures/Music for Piano (Hat Hut)
One of the intriguing paradoxes of modern music is how total control and total chance…
Stephan Mathieu – Remain (Line)
For Remain, Stephan Mathieu used the audio files from Extended Play by old friend and…
Nicolas Bernier – Courant Air (Ahornfelder)
The focus of Nicolas Bernier’s Courant Air is, obviously enough, air, specifically the flow of…
Markus Reuter – Todmorden 513 (Hyperfunction)
Markus Reuter’s Todmorden 513 is an involving, richly textured and spellbinding composition recalling the more…
Dustin O’Halloran – Lumiere (Fat Cat)
It’s a thin line separating neo-classical composition from wallpaper music, a line Dustin O’Halloran unfortunately…
Nicolas Bernier – Strings.Lines (Cronica)
Nicolas Bernier’s Strings.Lines uses tuning forks, violin and viola de gamba to produce music that…
Various Artists – SMM Context (Ghostly International)
Ghostly International have recruited a stellar bunch of artists for SMM Context, a compilation from…
Clive Tanaka Y Su Orquesta – Jet Set Siempre (Tall Corn)
While lumped in with the 1980s-obsessed hypnagogics by the hipsters at Altered Zone Clive Tanaka’s…
Sven Laux – Homesickness or Nostalgia (Microcosm)
With a title straight out of the hauntological handbook one might have expected Sven Laux’s…
Camryn Rothenbury – Patina (Grave New World)
Camryn Rothenburys Patina explores neo-classical instrumental composition covered in flaky strands of hazy digital processing,…
Thomas Bel – Lumières, ombres, voix et visages (self-released)
The biography provided by multi-media artist Thomas Bel on his website is a pair of…
David L. Post – String Quartets (Naxos)
Naxos note the “approachability, clarity and humanity” of David L. Post’s string quartets, which makes…
Various Artists – Playing with Words: An Audio Compilation (Gruenrekorder)
The voice, our oldest instrument, has even greater range since the advent of recording technology…
Cory Allen – Pearls (Quiet Design)
Releases on Cory Allen’s Quiet Design label predictably tend towards the understated and restrained, but…