Experimental Frequencies

Boards of Canada – Tomorrow’s Harvest

Boards of Canada ...

The San Francisco skyline, metallic blue, looms ahead in the distance, a photograph of a horizon that seems to be suffering an icy, cool chill. ...

Nathan Bowles & Scott Verrastro – Polar Satellites

Nathan Bowles &...

In many people’s prejudices (mine included, sometimes) solo percussion is shackled with interminable free jazz improvisation, or that part of a gig where you can ...

Tiny Leaves – A Good Land, An Excellent Land

Tiny Leaves – ...

A Good Land, An Excellent Land is Joel Nathaniel Pike’s debut album under his instrumental and ambient tag, Tiny Leaves. A Good Land, An Excellent ...

Nick Hennies – Flourish

Nick Hennies –...

UK-based label Consumer Waste describes itself as “a low-impact imprint for the publication of contemporary experimental music”, utilising recycled materials for its simple yet strikingly ...

Illuha – Interstices

Illuha – Inter...

Illuha is a collaboration between Tokyo-based musicians Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date. Their second appearance on the 12k label (not counting their contribution to the ...

Rauelsson – Vora

Rauelsson – Vo...

Crossing the borders into unknown territory can be a daunting, intimidating experience. If you keep the faith, there's no reason you can't settle down after ...

Brighter Days…

Brighter Days…...

Deep Magic are all set for a return to the Preservation record label at the end of the month and we can assure you that ...

Smokey Emery: Soundtracks for Invisibility Vol. 2: You Take the High Road

Smokey Emery: Soundt...

Sure, San Francisco and Austin are centers of progressive political activism, but the comparisons mostly stop there. The Bay Area is an eclectic synthesis of ...

Marcus Fischer: The Crow / Gail Priest: The Common Koel (Birds of a Feather Series 7 & 8)

Marcus Fischer: The ...

Given the huge amount of music being released these days, labels are increasingly in need of strategies to catch and hold the attention of listeners. ...

Oathless – Peripheral: Music For An Imaginary Film

Oathless – Per...

I thought I saw her in a dream, a long time ago. Even after the passing of the seasons and the years, her presence never ...

Kwaidan – Make All the Hell of Dark Metal Bright

Kwaidan – Make...

Kwaidan, a Chicago trio made up of Neil Jendon, Mike Weis and André Foisy, bring a lot of experience to their debut album (Foisy is ...

Lost Trail: Pages From The Alamance Hymnal – 2011/2013

Lost Trail: Pages Fr...

Reading through the Pages From The Alamance Hymnal, tragic memories start to converge. Riffling through the pages of Lost Trail’s impressive discography, created between 2011 ...

Bedroom Community Presents: Everything Everywhere All The Time

Bedroom Community Pr...

Shrouded in swelling clouds of volcanic ash, Bedroom Community’s 2010 European tour was far from a perfect start. Spitting out clouds of volcanic residue, rising ...

Jan St Werner – Blaze Colour Burn

Jan St Werner –...

Blaze Colour Burn is an album composed of various performances and recordings by member of Mouse On Mars, Jan St. Werner... Opener, Cloud Diachroma is extracted ...

Tiny Leaves – Abraham

Tiny Leaves – ...

Future Sequence will be releasing the stunning 'A Good Land, An Excellent Land' by Tiny Leaves on Tuesday 11th June... Written and ...

Upward Arrows (^^^^) – The Sad Truth

Upward Arrows (^^^^)...

British label Cotton Goods have been keeping a low profile of late, with their latest record arriving without a press release or any accompanying information. ...

Tiago Sousa – Samsara

Tiago Sousa – ...

The rock solid grooves of Tiago Sousa's "Samsara" never get placated far from improvisation in its purest form. Making honey out of mud, the heavily ...

BoardWalk: I’m To Blame

BoardWalk: I’m...

Sometimes you hear a track and your instantly sucked in. You can't explain why or what or how, it just gets you deep down. We've ...

Earthtones: Through The Lense

Earthtones: Through ...

A collection of stunning photography taken from the 'Earthtones compilation' (Review here). Each image was taken in the artist’s local area, to accompany their respective ...

L’Eix – Empra Mots

L’Eix – Empr...

L’Eix are a Catalan ensemble based in Barcelona, consisting of guitarist and sound artist Ferran Fages, electronic music producer and critic Oriol Rosell, and interactive ...

Sequence6

Sequence6...

Future Sequence return with another killer 'Sequence selection'...

Readers Selection: Gacougnol – Edition Two

Readers Selection: G...

Gacougnol returns with his second 'Readers Selection' for Fluid Radio. Simply click on the image to find out more...

Readers Selection: Cyber Surfer – Edition Five

Readers Selection: C...

The Cyber Surfer is back with another great looking selection of 'under the radar' digital releases that are well worth investigating... - Cyber Surfer

Seaworthy and Taylor Deupree – Wood, Winter, Hollow

Seaworthy and Taylor...

“Wood, Winter, Hollow” is the first collaborative album from Seaworthy (Cameron Webb) and Taylor Deupree, drawn from field recordings and instrumental improvisations made during a ...

Spheruleus: Clearings

Spheruleus: Clearing...

Released exclusively through the Spheruleus Bandcamp page, ‘Clearings’ is a collection of 12 previously unreleased works. Each piece was constructed using unused sounds on the ...

Colleen – The Weighing of the Heart

Colleen – The ...

Heavenly harmonies always attract adoration. Beauty may be entirely subjective (in life, as in music), but it’s easy to become instantly swayed by the pure ...

Readers Selection: Gacougnol – Edition One

Readers Selection: G...

Anyone that follows the Fluid Radio Twitter account will probably know of Gacougnol. The guy literally lives and breathes drone music and we are constantly ...

North Atlantic Drift – Monuments

North Atlantic Drift...

The cover of Monuments shows the edge of a forest, hazed in fog. It sits on the boundary between definition and suggestion, the clear lines ...

Alex Kozobolis & Lee Chapman – From November To March

Alex Kozobolis &...

A real find this - six piano experiments with two versions of three pieces, lengthened in "To March" by Lee Chapman, and pre-proposed by Alex ...

Áine O’Dwyer – Anything Bright Or Startling?

Áine O’Dwyer ...

Ireland’s Áine O'Dwyer has treated us all to a beautiful voyage. It's a voyage that sails through the golden harps of sunshine and through the ...