Upset The Rhythm Well this came as a total surprise; after a steady flow of Normil Hawaiians re-issues from Upset The Rhythm over the last few years, the band now present two newly recorded tantalising glimpses into their sonic future.
Daily Archives: 15/09/2020
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Temporary Residence On first hearing Sparkle Division‘s debut album To Feel Embraced, which is a dusty fusion of lounge jazz and sleepy beats, one wouldn’t immediately figure it for a William Basinski project, but he is the man at the helm — although it is as much studio assistant Preston Wendel‘s outing, as his own work was the inspiration for Basinski. He digs his sax out for a […]
Play Loud! So here we are in London’s salubrious East End, in a period between the wars and reflecting a very different area to the one we know now. Except kind of not — London’s always been a mix of people, so no great surprise that ’20s London had Eastern European Ashkenazi Jews rubbing shoulders with white working class Londoners, singing songs about Copenhagen or the Netherlands. This […]
Staraya Derevnya (CD) / Raash (cassette) / Steep Gloss Russian – Israeli – UK collective Staraya Derevnya dish up a refreshingly eclectic aesthetic where anything and everything has musical potential. A free-form exploration that’s open ended and primal which reaches into the unpredictable to pluck out some smouldering gold.
Kranky This is the second album for Julie Carpenter‘s Less Bells pseudonym and furthers her explorations pairing drifting electronics with choral vocals and the application of tension. There is a whimsical feel to the electronic wash that opens the album and cymbals glow with a kind of spectral sheen, but there is a sort of tension to the sounds due to an inertia that prevents the track from […]