Experimental Frequencies

Birds Of Passage / I’ve Lost – I Was All You Are

Birds Of Passage / I...

Following a run of critically acclaimed releases, New Zealand’s Alicia Merz returns once again under her Birds Of Passage moniker, joined this time by I’ve ...

Looking Back: Richard Youngs – Atlas of Hearts

Looking Back: Richar...

Over  a couple of decades, Richard Youngs' discography has grown into a rather vast, ever evolving time capsule of solo recordings and collaborations that one ...

Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II

Earth – Angels...

Back in 1991 when Earth first began releasing music as a band, a review of their music would’ve felt at home on the pages of ...

Nuojuva – Valot Kaukaa

Nuojuva – Valo...

Olli Aarni's new project 'Nuojuva' has risen out of the ashes of the now discarded 'Ous Mal' moniker. Fans of Olli's previous work need not ...

The New Honey Shade – Ozark Dream

The New Honey Shade ...

Slow modulating tones open “Ozark Dream” by The New Honey Shade; it all begins here with the track also named Ozark Dream, a post future retro ...

SoundFjord Session At Cafe OTO

SoundFjord Session A...

On the 16th of January, SoundFjord curated an evening of music and sonic arts at Cafe Oto where Daniel Thomas Freeman, Attila Faravelli and Mem1 ...

Message To Bears – Folding Leaves

Message To Bears ...

Picture a scene in time lapse. From a breaking dawn follows parting clouds. Trees blow, their branches swaying from a wind unseen but felt by ...

Psychological Strategy Board – Collision / Detection v1

Psychological Strate...

Collision/Detection v1 comes via Manchester-based imprint Front & Follow and is the label’s second project in a series of audio experiments which are curated by ...

Convex Mancave… A Closer Study

Convex Mancave…...

The Bandcamp page is about it. So what first catches the eye is the name and the album art, a sly recovering of Monte Steele's ...

Dustin Wong – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads

Dustin Wong – ...

In winter, weather-beaten nip 'n' tuck releases predominate the experimental scene. Sonance ushers in a minimalist accompaniment to the elements, unwishing to separate itself from ...

Mark Harris – An Idea of North / Learning to Walk

Mark Harris – ...

Where to begin? The end seems as good a place as any. For a good couple of minutes after you thought the single long-form piece ...

Adrian Aniol – Arrhythmia OST

Adrian Aniol –...

“I’m in a glass case of emotion!” cries out Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) in a phone booth while banging around the corners, wailing utter nonsense ...

A Setting Sun – December

A Setting Sun –...

Anyone familiar with mind-expanding substances will know that, at times, getting to a state of enhanced perception and ubiquitous understanding of what just ‘is’ can ...

Good Weather For An Airstrike – Underneath the Stars

Good Weather For An ...

Following on from last year’s A Winter on Rural Colours, Tom Honey, aka Good Weather For An Airstrike, turns his hand to a full length ...

Cokiyu – Your Thorn Remixes

Cokiyu – Your ...

Towards the end of last year Japanese electronic musician Cokiyu released her second full-length release “Your Thorn.” In our review of that album, we cited ...

AmbientFestival / Cologne – Day Four: Lubomyr Melnyk, Ensemble-Son-et-Lumière & Hauschka

AmbientFestival / Co...

Great piano music has been a recurring theme of this year’s Ambientfestival “Zivilisation der Liebe” at St. Aposteln in Cologne, and the closing concert was ...

AmbientFestival / Cologne – Day Three: Nils Frahm & Peter Broderick

AmbientFestival / Co...

People were still filing into the Basilika St. Aposteln as Jörg Burger aka Triola took to his laptop for some warm ambient sounds, and by ...

AmbientFestival / Cologne – Day One: Markus Güntner & Simon Scott

AmbientFestival / Co...

When Cologne resident Dietmar Saxler first heard that the local Basilika St. Aposteln was looking for projects that would bring more young people through its ...

A Rare Occurrence, Woven In Sound: From The Mouth Of The Sun

A Rare Occurrence, W...

It’s late 2008, and Dag Rosenqvist asks Aaron Martin for a cello part for his then work-in-progress, ‘The Black Sun Transmissions’…

Secret Pyramid – The Silent March

Secret Pyramid ̵...

There is some strange symbiosis between Lars Von Trier’s latest film ‘Melancholia’ and Secret Pyramid’s “The Silent March”. Or maybe it’s just that both of ...

Gultskra Artikler: Abtu Anet

Gultskra Artikler: A...

In the middle of the sixteenth century in the south of England a group of Orford fishermen caught a strange creature. Its form reminded them ...

Plinth – Collected Machine Music

Plinth – Colle...

The philosopher, social critic and journalist Walter Benjamin once suggested that the assorted detritus of the 19th Century bourgeoisie - the knick-knacks, toys, trinkets, mechanical ...

Aspidistrafly – A little fable

Aspidistrafly –...

The purpose of a fable is to illustrate a lesson, often moral in character, with concision and a kind of dreamlike colour. Fairies exist, animals ...

Nova Scotian Arms: Cult Spectrum

Nova Scotian Arms: C...

Going solo after the engrossing "Crystal Anniversary" release with wife Rachel, Grant Evans, also half of Quiet Evenings, and co-curator of the Hooker Vision label, ...

Radere – I’ll Make You Quiet

Radere – I’l...

Futuresequence is a name well known among fans of ambient and experimental music for their online magazine, mixes and colossal “SEQUENCE” free download compilations (not ...

Andre Vida – Brud: Volumes I-III

Andre Vida – B...

The once seemingly empty road came to a sudden halt, cars that were flashing by you at 70+ miles an hour have all lined up, ...

James Murray – Floods

James Murray –...

Self-released on his own imprint Slowcraft Records, Floods comes packaged in a natural cardboard sleeve, hand-stamped with the necessary information and logos and generally being ...

The Dalston Session

The Dalston Session...

For a few years now, Cafe Oto and The Vortex Jazz Club have been two of the most exciting venues in East-London gaining a fully ...

Ilyas Ahmed – With Endless Fire

Ilyas Ahmed – ...

There’s something about the music of Ilyas Ahmed that seems to prompt reviewers to say contradictory things. One review describes it as “completely THERE”, while ...

Birchall / Cheetham Duo – Tipping Point

Birchall / Cheetham ...

Bob Dylan's almost annual nomination for the Nobel Prize in literature receives predictable resistance. Popular music is the result of months of crafting and rehearsal, ...