Experimental Frequencies

Donato Wharton – A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark

Donato Wharton ̵...

A limber tone begins an incredible work by Donato Wharton, flittering and flaying in an obsequious manner, fading out slowly with a gentle throb, before ...

Taylor Deupree – Journal

Taylor Deupree – J...

There are places of hidden treasure where we store things with the intention of coming back to again...

Antonymes – The Licence to Interpret Dreams

Antonymes – Th...

There is no maelstrom, no swell of overwhelming sound. Antonyme’s first full-length work, The License to Interpret Dreams, is defiant in its fragility; in fact, ...

Mem1 – Tetra

Mem1 – Tetra...

Distressed notes run asunder on Tetra, a vinyl-only offering from the duo, Mem1. A current, quivering along these three fine works, creates a unique yet ...

Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills, They Were as Beautiful as a Lullaby

Against a Backdrop o...

Album Of The Week: Culled from hours of orchestrated tape loops, “Against a Backdrop of Blue Hills, They Were as Beautiful as a Lullaby” finds ...

Juv – Juv

Juv – Juv...

The halls are flooded with a foreboding resonance, permeating the pores; the wallpaper becomes unglued and the doors, unhinged. Juv, two men who shut themselves ...

Acoustic Tales

Acoustic Tales...

Delayed until Jan 2011: Out of faint drone rumblings, an organ slowly ascends. The night is awash with a hospitable solemnity that the listener must ...

Rauelsson with Peter Broderick – Replica

Rauelsson with Peter...

Created for the vinyl medium, Replica encompasses two long works, held together by plaintive cobwebs that bridge each finely tuned piece of introspective folk and ...

Skjolbrot – Maersk

Skjolbrot – Ma...

Skjolbrot lies in the confluence of chaos/disorder and perfection/harmony.

Herion – Out And About

Herion – Out A...

Finally Available: Certain music has a way of defining the space one inhabits as well as permeating through, connecting one’s particular space with its immediate ...

Concert Silence – 9.22.07 [2-3p.m.] and Rain Furniture

Concert Silence R...

As Concert Silence, Matthew Cooper, otherwise known as Eluvium, and Charles Buckingham, a musician and video artist, took quite a different approach to recording what ...

Obelisk/Stelea (Review & Film)

Obelisk/Stelea (Revi...

Under the lamplight, which is a small, insignificant light, yet enough to light the whole room, the distant sound of a guitar rumbles throughout, shaking ...

Desire Path Recordings – The Sense of Far Away

Desire Path Recordin...

Desire Path Recordings concerns itself with a daydream of elsewhere. We find that the commitment of the soul is all we can muster...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maymay – And So I Place You In The Setting Sun

Maymay – And S...

After gaining notice on the Portland Stories compilation, released through the Sonic Pieces imprint, Maymay present an awe-inspiring full-length, complete with Laurel Simmons’s diaphanous voice ...

Nils Frahm & Anne Müller – 7 Fingers

Nils Frahm & An...

Now Available: Just as his recent album with F.S. Blumm is released, Nils Frahm continues to churn out wonderful collaborative work, moving away from the ...

Zelienople – Hollywood

Zelienople – H...

Opening in a deluge of drone, this re-release of Hollywood by Zelienople, sets the listener off on a path of self-discovery in a freakish netherworld; ...

Hummingbird – Our Fearful Symmetry (Review)

Hummingbird – ...

Sometimes, all it takes is one moment in music, a specific sound, a sliver of a piano note, a shimmer of guitar, where the listener ...