Experimental Frequencies

eRikm – Transfall

eRikm – Transf...

For the past twenty years or so, Erik Malton, aka eRikm, has been producing highly complex musique concrète works, often combining electronics and acoustic instruments. ...

Sean McCann – Sincere World

Sean McCann – ...

Sincere World is a collection of gently unspooling instrumentals by Sean McCann. Bowed guitars and electric violins circle and repeat, aided by almost-vocal tones that ...

Konntinent – Kiruna

Konntinent – K...

Continued Hibernation deliberations and ruminations on the winter months from the ever prolific Anthony Harrison and his first full length for the label under the ...

En – Already Gone

En – Already G...

A universal definition of what is “beautiful” will probably remain eternally elusive. Different tastes, different cultures, backgrounds and a myriad of other factors play into ...

Max Bondi – Convolution

Max Bondi – Co...

“This is uncompromising machine music, but with a melodic edge, rhythmical but irregular, ‘electrical’ rather than electronic.”

Kleefstra / Bakker / Kleefstra – Griis

Kleefstra / Bakker /...

Poetry, soundwaves: stewed - business as usual for the Kleefstra brothers. "Piipisijllling", Jan Kleefstra's collab with fellow Dutchman Machinefabriek, caught many ears back in 2008. ...

Black To Comm – Earth

Black To Comm –...

How important is context? How does an album like this sit alone, and how does it sit with the outside world?

Ryan Teague – Field Drawings

Ryan Teague – ...

Emotionally, the modern classical style rarely goes bananas. Surprising really: the sub genre partially grew from love for electronics. Plus a distaste for highbrow snobbishness. ...

Concessionaires: Artificial Interface

Concessionaires: Art...

The latest in an ever-expanding line of projects by Brad Rose, Concessionaires sees the prolific musician, label owner and all-round good guy joined by guitarist ...

Pascal Savy – Receding

Pascal Savy – ...

Pascal Savy returns with further deconstructions and the application of fairly mind bending physics and philosophies to composition (rhizome, phase differentiation and deterritorialization)  -  namely ...

Fescal – Alchemical Wanderings

Fescal – Alche...

Debates free-flowing, profluent thought processing fails by straying too far, imparts in runabout ordinations with traits of humans. Our willingness and adaptability is reflected in ...

The Caretaker – Patience (After Sebald)

The Caretaker –...

Patience (After Sebald) does not return us to the time of Franz Schubert, because Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise could never have existed this way: dissected, ...

Not Fit For Bars Or Voluble Patrons / Sublimation

Not Fit For Bars Or ...

Saturday March 3rd witnessed the opening of Sublimation: An Exercise in the Immersive: a threefold event at Oboro, a gallery and center for explorative arts ...

Wist Records – The Book Report Series, Volumes 4 – 6: Tape Loop Orchestra / Loscil / Danny Norbury

Wist Records –...

I will always hold a slight, romantic nostalgia for commuting in London. Amongst the chaos, angst, hustle and bustle of the respiratory-like movements of millions ...

Giuseppe Ielasi – Untitled, 2011

Giuseppe Ielasi R...

A silver oblong of vacuum sealed PVC. Held at an angle you can just make out the text - Giuseppe Ielasi. Slowly pealing the packaging ...

Various Artists – Hidden Landscapes 2

Various Artists R...

Audio Gourmet team up with Hibernate Recordings for a second instalment of Hidden Landscapes bringing together a very healthy looking roster of artists from across ...

Refractor – Locus Suspectus

Refractor – Lo...

"Each person is an island unto himself, in a very real sense; and he can only build bridges to other islands if he is first ...

Stephan Mathieu and Caro Mikalef – Radioland (Panorámica)

Stephan Mathieu and ...

In his book “Rothko”, Jacob Baal-Teshuva writes “Rothko thought that the ideal distance for observing his paintings was 45 centimeters. In this way, the viewer ...

Pleq And Lauki – Perceiving Perspective

Pleq And Lauki ̵...

Pleq is Bartosz Dziadosz, the prolific composer, producer and collaborator. Dziadosz is responsible for — among many other releases — the 2009 CDr The Metamorphosis, ...

Duotone…

Duotone…...

I walk back to my car after a long day in London, the Lost Rivers by Tom Bolton replaying it’s scenes in my head, I’m ...

Celer – Evaporate and Wonder

Celer – Evapor...

“evaporate (verb): 1. to transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state. 2. (figuratively) to disappear.” Music can’t really be said to disappear, because ...

Michael James Tapscott with Andrew Kenower – Good Morning, Africa

Michael James Tapsco...

The restless, meandering nature of Michael Tapscott's band Odawas will prepare more adventurous listeners for the kind of variety that can be found on Good ...

bvdub – The First Day

bvdub – The First ...

The way Brock Van Wey’s (bvdub) music forces one to drift into the longest forgotten memories; the instances that never seemed to matter, the people ...

Mirroring – Foreign Body

Mirroring – Fo...

Collaborations can be a bit of a mixed bag. When they're done well, they represent a meeting of artistic visions, a kind of sonic venn ...

Last Harbour – Escape Was All I Ever Meant

Last Harbour –...

There's a succinct difference between lying and being economical with the truth. The latter, what most people use as a privacy shield, happens prior to ...

Andrea Belfi – Wege

Andrea Belfi –...

Experiments conducted by psychologists and cognitive scientists suggest that infants as young as two months of age can discriminate between different rhythms. Indeed, rhythmic elements ...

Clade – If Brightness Outshine Heavens So Prepared

Clade – If Bri...

Brian Eno's definition of ambient music needs a quick clarification. The genre's strength, according to Eno, is its resilience at any "position" in relation to ...

Appalache – Fue

Appalache – Fu...

Appalache is the moniker of Frenchman Julien Magot, who prior to creating this album embarked upon an adventure which saw him hit the road and ...

Kirill Nikolai & Colin Treiber – Three Studies Of October / The Cemetry For Mt. Vernon In Spring

Kirill Nikolai &...

October...almost the coldest month of autumn in Britain...winter's near, televisual execs free the advert slurry for Christmas shoppers, and there's an aura of the year ...

A Whisper In The Noise – To Forget

A Whisper In The Noi...

What do we talk about when we talk about post-rock? Are we thinking of the endless string crescendos of Godpeed, spiralling upwards in rage? The ...