Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Motion Sickness of Time Travel
10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
After the release so far so many recordings, I did not think that Rachel Evans, could create an album which would not only become so much different from those earlier ones, but just better. She has already earned the position of ambient artists, who is already referenced and to whom many artists is compared. In the newest work very evident is that there are no random sounds for which there is so easily in long multi-minute recordings. The beautiful intergalactic sidereal journey is reminiscent of the philosophy of Heraclitus, which states that the continuous becoming and passing is the most important feature of human being. Existence is not lost and is not created Something is lost and not created but only changes. The most beautiful feature of this album is that Rachel Evans matures.
Insect Factory - Melodies From A Dead Radio
8/10
And I’ve heard the voice, it was a warm voice from the radio which said: In today’s broadcast let’s listen to the fragment of the novel by Reymont: ‘The long, ominous noise was blowing from the forest. The solitary trees shook, the rain of dried leaves murmured the ears, the grass and grain began to sway, and the quiet, timid, plaintive voice rose above the low undulating fields…’.
Jason Urick - I Love You
7/10
Three-quarters of the planet is water. In these water you can find precious stones. It is not easy. You can find oneohtrixes raioaktywnych and many other semi-precious stones. All look radioactive and sound like radioactive. Jason Urick found emeralds. He moved them with his firty hands to his office and shared with us. Not polished them. They still smell of mud and psychotic string arrangements. Emeralds.
En - Already Gone
7/10
For this album you can use the trivial to determine that it is an uneven record. I think that the first four short pieces we can treat as an intro to the main course - the fifth track ‘Elysia’. This track is 19 minutes of work touching the framework of a masterpiece. Sometimes it borders on a level comparable to the best achievements of Tim Hecker. En serves us sophisticated drone, with a touch of originality. So there is a chance that in the future En’s music can be really great.
Seaworthy - Bellows & Breath
6/10
This time there are no more charming but unpretentious covers of albums with the rural landscape. But I liked those covers. There was not even one ounce of natural kitsch. I laso liked music under thoses covers. Today’s music as covers several years ago is also not pretentious. The records are compact, consistent, minimalistic. However, they lack that something that allows the output above mediocrity.
Anthea Caddy + Thembi Sodell - Host
3/10
Pens broken, burned in the fire. Field recording. Steps uninterested passers-by. Field recording. One of Polanski’s early movies. Field recording. The cover for techno music. Field recording.
A-sun Amissa - Desperate In Her Heavy Sleep
6/10
- It’s a story about the Baltic Sea.
- I’ve heard that story about this sea was written by Sakamoto?
- Not this time, I know that the Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, is a small surface sea, but it appears to be dark, so we can even call it a sea of blackness. I saw black and white photograph in encyclopedia published in the mid-twentieth century. Emotionally, I know a lot about the Baltic, I read Tonio Kröger and Other Stories by Thomas Mann.
- In the church building, really?
Kleefstra-Bakker-Kleefstra - Griis
7/10
So, once again, someone would stop vibrating air, weave them into barely palpable sounds. We can see electrified dust between the keyboard and the screen. You can sing about it, mumble as well. I only get the impression that the space has been narrowed merely in our computer zone. But I wish to hear something from the space between buildings and trees.
Philippe Petit & Friends - Cordophony
5/10
On this album you can find expanded but also very theatrical constructions. You can not deny their ambitious embouchure but also you can feel the weariness with this form very quickly. Besides playing classical instruments in the flood of electronic games can be read favorably. Unfortunately they can be stroked only for a moment.
France Jobin - Valence
10/10 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Last year a team of scientists from European research center CERN reported that the microscopic elementary particles, neutrinos, probably exceeded the speed of light. It would be a revolution in physics, because the speed of light - almost 300 thousand kilometers per second - is the greatest speed in the universe. According to Einstein’s theory, no one and nothing can move faster. Soon after it became clear that the research was wrong - was the result of technical defects, firstly the GPS to measure the speed of neutrinos has been set faultily. Secondly, the cable was not connected properly with a part of the system. France Jobin describes her album ‘Valence’ as inspired by both the valence bond (VB) and molecular orbital (MO) theories. This is not a revolution in music, neither conceptual nor sound. Because the interpretation of such research projects would easily become a grotesque. However, this album is outstanding, mainly because it is the mathematical contemplation of the music with the sounds and the expression used already by masters such as Whitman or Noto. France Jobin does not describe the laws of physics. Actually she measures (like Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his films) our patience for listening to things quite significant.
Stephan Mathieu + Caro Mikalef - Radioland (Panorámica)
8/10
This is an excellent example that the fun of making noise can be pleasant also for the audience. It’s a bit like going through a big city, which is sometimes noisy and crowded. And as it turned out it can be easily described without the use of field recordings. In this city of many frequencies you can find this one which is not only interesting for you but also in which u can openly exist.
Nova Scotian Arms - Cult Spectrum
9/10 HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Once upon a time there was a cassette tape. Grant Evans was not the unconventional one and he used the tape. Cassette has something useful: B-side. You can put something on it which is less known (is it possible in terms of such music like this to speak about ‘popularity’?) and promote it. But keep in mind that the B-side is not good to put things more interesting than the A-side. So Grant put his flirtation signed as Nova Scotian Arms on the other side of the cassette. But one day he had little remorse and he decided to devote to this project. He decided to abandon for a moment the intuitive improvisations, random sounds arranged in a lazy passages. This time he played around with his friend in weaving an intricate web of sounds embedded in a dark fairy tale. It worked, it is intricate, mystical, and even nice.
Grouper - Violet Replacement
4/10
It’s not like I want to avoid the noise and that is why I came up with that will not like this album. I just do not see anything unusual in these extremely long tracks except an experiment with a threadbare sound. Liz, I miss your melodies.
Celer - Tightrope
7/10
The fertility of these two artists is impressive. Laziness of one passaged sound may seem interesting. You may pleasantly be lazy with these sound but rather unlikely that this record was revealed as a work of non-random deviate from the other children born by Will Long and Danielle Baquet-Long.
Kane Ikin - Contrail
8/10
Contrail beautifully raised on a guitar vibrating string, which after turned off the electricity still seems to breathe freely. However, the most beautiful feature of this miniature appear to be what remains unsaid.
