Microdeform – Neural Regression (Aphelion Editions)
The dancer performs behind a stained pane of glass. Not being able to discern her…
Author Stephen Fruitman
Stephen Fruitman
Born and raised in Toronto, Stephen Fruitman has been living in northern Sweden lo these past thirty years. Writing and lecturing about art and culture as an historian of ideas since the early nineties, his articles have appeared in an number of international publications. He is also a contributing editor at Igloo Magazine.
Fescal – Alchemical Wanderings (Wounded Wolf Press)
Released in 2012, Alchemical Wanderings was British-born, South Korean resident David Suyeong´s first full-length, physical…
48 Cameras / Scanner – We Could Bring You Silk in May (Interzone/Transcultures)
In a time of forehead-slapping, hair-pulling, and general all-round European dazed and confusedness, a glance…
Rapoon – The Kirghiz Light (Zoharum)
The already massive discography of Robin Storey continues to expand – even backward in time.…
K. Leimer – The Pale Catalog (Palace Of Lights)
The Pale Catalog is a monochromatic gouache of “completed stereo mixes of [the] generative experiments”…
Lauki – Waiting for the Thaw (Luscinia)
Spanish composer Mikel Lauki originally composed Waiting for the Thaw in the winter of 2011-12…
David Newlyn – The Past Increases, The Future Recedes (Rural Colours)
Residing just outside Durham in northern England, David Newlyn strikes me as one of the…
Celer & Hakobune – Vain Shapes and Intricate Parapets (Purre Goohn)
In a world turned upside-down, the wise man looks down to see the sky. Celer…
Various Artists – Nonplace Soundtracks: Scenes 01-25 (Nonplace)
Nonplace Soundtracks assembles twenty-five incidental instrumentals composed by Burnt Friedman (born Bernd Friedmann) and/or Hayden…
Tzii – The Black Pile (Silken Tofu)
Prefaced by murderous cult leader Jim Jones appealing sarcastically to the capacity for abstract thinking…
aMute – Savage Bliss (Three:Four Records)
Jérôme Deuson chose a future-proof moniker as his nom-de-musique, because his ten-year recording career has…
Strom Noir & Micromelancolié – 49°05’19,3″N22°34’04,0’E (Zoharum)
The opening, half-hour long track of this first collaborative effort between Slovakias´s Strom Noir (Emil…
T_st & Dronelock – The Eternal Now (Sphere Gear)
English duo Dronelock (Martin Cartledge and Alexander Church) met Yerevan counterpart T_st (Davit Sukiasian and…
Fluxion – Broadwalk Tales (Echocord)
Since its immaculate conception at the hands of Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus at…
John 3:16 – The Burnt Tower / Babylon the Great (Alrealon Musique)
Despite the “good news” moniker, the tenue of John 3:16 is far more Old Testament…