Experimental Frequencies

The Green Kingdom Prismatic

The Green Kingdom Pr...

Release Date 06.09.10: Following the beautiful Twig and Twine (November 2009, Own Records), Michael Cottone returns with Prismatic, his latest work under the moniker The ...

Alex Durlak – Rural Route No.4

Alex Durlak – ...

Rural Route No.4 is the latest release in the Rural Route 3"CD series by Toronto based printing, publishing and record label Standard Form, which on ...

Ithaca Trio/Machinefabriek – Par Avion

Ithaca Trio/Machinef...

Released in an edition of 100, this split album finds Ithaca Trio and Machinefabriek working as pen pals to create a cohesive work, assembled with ...

Celer – Dying Star

Celer – Dying ...

Earlier this year I had the pleasure of reviewing a reissue of Celer's 'Engaged Touches' on Home Normal - that album was, for me, something ...

Sophie Hutchings – Becalmed (Review)

Sophie Hutchings ...

The work of the solo pianist has gained momentum of late and certainly within the ambiguous genre that is modern classical music...

Rafael Anton Irisarri – The North Bend

Rafael Anton Irisarr...

Photographs can tell a story. With just a simple picture of a person or a place, a whole story can unfold. Thoughts and feelings are ...

Piiptsjilling – Wurdskrieme

Piiptsjilling –...

Wurdskrieme is one of two new releases from Piiptsjilling, a quartet that is formed of Jan and Romke Kleefstra, Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt. The ...

Marcus Fjellström Schattenspieler

Marcus Fjellström S...

Swedish modern composer and multimedia artist Marcus Fjellström’s debut Miasmah release, ‘Schattenspieler’...

M. Ostermeier – Chance Reconstruction

M. Ostermeier –...

M. Ostermeier has had a busy year; we’re only 8 months in and he’s already released two records and is about to release his third, ...

Richard Lainhart – Cranes Fly West – Digital Schiphorst Edition 2010

Richard Lainhart ...

For those unfamiliar with Richard Lainhart's work, the composer uses lush strings, electronics and inspired arrangements to lull the listener into a contented oblivion, in ...

Coil Sea – Coil Sea

Coil Sea – Coi...

There is always the temptation to pigeonhole music, to try to break down the myriad component elements into one common characteristic, or to attempt to ...

Clem Leek & Jannick Schou – Pimlico

Clem Leek & Jan...

With only a handful of releases between them, Clem Leek and Jannick Schou have established themselves as rising stars among modern classical composers, and it’s ...

Peter Jorgensen: The Remixes

Peter Jorgensen: The...

Peter Jorgensen releases a new double CD in early September – the first CD is nineteen tracks of compositions for the movie “Kim”, and the ...

Clem Leek – Holly Lane

Clem Leek – Ho...

From the opening clock chime to the closing string cadence, “Holly Lane” is soaked in atmosphere and emotion; be it despair, fear, love or ...

Clouwbeck – From Which The River Rises

Clouwbeck – Fr...

When one wanders far enough, to where one loses all trace of one’s destination, as well as from whence one came, one realizes immediately that ...

Martin Clarke – Rural Route No.3

Martin Clarke –...

Rural Route No.3 is the latest release in the series of 3" CDRs from Toronto based print shop, publishing house and record label Standard Form. ...

Mark Kozelek Live At The Union Chapel

Mark Kozelek Live At...

A solitary guitar rests on stage, as an anticipating crowd fill the pews of the Union Chapel. Some audience members’ split from their friends to ...

Szymon Kaliski  Out of Forgetting

Szymon Kaliski Out ...

Hailing from a small town which neighbours Pozna?, Poland, Szymon Kaliski works with acoustic instruments and field recordings to give rise to his vision of ...

Fennesz / Daniell / Buck – Knoxville

Fennesz / Daniell / ...

There’s beauty in the unexpected; in the moments of real randomness and unplanned events. That is why improvised music is one of the truest ...

Various – Keys (A Comprehensive Collection Of Contemporary Piano Compositions)

Various – Keys...

For Satie, I believe, the piano represented a way of realizing unparalleled moments of oneness. I always like to use the term “transmigration”, whereby the ...

Grasslung – Sincere Void

Grasslung – Si...

Continuing on in a string of excellent releases, with recent LPs from Common Eider, King Eider and Duane Pitre, Root Strata presents us with a ...

Mark Harris – The Boy Observes the Ocean

Mark Harris – ...

The latest offering from Hibernate Records is by West-Midlands based Mark Harris. Harris is a visual artist, programmer and musician who uses self made applications ...

Imbogodom – The Metallic Year

Imbogodom – Th...

“The Metallic Year” is a collection of eerie but affecting tracks, where sound collage and unraveling songs present a haunted world of spooling atmospheres, warped ...

Goldmund – Famous Places

Goldmund – Fam...

Album Of The Week: Keith Kenniff follows up 2008’s “The Malady of Elegance” with the third album under his Goldmund guise. Where Helios, his other ...

Deekie – Amusia

Deekie – Amusi...

Deekie was formed in 2007 by an enigmatic London duo named Mr L and Neets, to fulfil a desire to write music together despite neither ...

Listening Mirror – Falling Under

Listening Mirror ...

Released in limited edition format on Heat Death Records, Listening Mirror’s “Falling Under” EP is comprised of two very succinct, ambient works that allow the ...

Fieldhead – Riser (Review)

Fieldhead – Ri...

Out on Monday: Fieldhead’s debut album, “They Shook Hands For Hours”, made waves on its release, topping many year-end best-of lists...my own included. Paul Elam’s ...