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Quiet Evenings – Light Billows
Blissful long form drone from Quiet Evenings (Grant & Rachel Evans) with Light Billows on their own Hooker Vision imprint. 52 minutes of drone and vocal textures, cello and tape-saturated synths. Light and heavy, dense and a million miles wide. Recaptures a bit of what I felt of the Sacred Phases catalog in the 20… Continue reading
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Planning For Burial – Matawan: Collected Works 2010-2014
Double cassette retrospective of smokey slow burning out-takes and drafts from Planning For Burial with Mattawan: Collected Works 2010-2014 on The Flenser. Twenty eight tracks spanning almost two hours. There is a lot to digest here and as you’d expect from a collection of this magnitude things run a wide gamut of genres, styles and… Continue reading
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Lutto Lento – Death Beam
Austere, post industrial from Lutto Lento with 2011 cassette release Death Beam polish label Sangoplasmo. Produced as a sound installation for Longing for Tesla commissioned by Czarny Neseser gallery and Gallery Design BWA Wroclaw. Two tracks of cosmic techno inspired by the electromagnetic weapon invented by Nikola Tesla in the 1930s. Stark, pulsating soundscapes awash… Continue reading
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Sangam & Kid Smpl – Found Wings
2022 cassette release, Found Wings by Sangam & Kid Smpl on Display is mesmerizing drift between ambient haze and fractured rhythm, both intimate and distant. Six tracks, each 10+ minutes, of blown-out textures layer on fragmented bits of melody. There’s a feeling of memory at play, bits of decontextualized conversation recalling something meaningful but indistinct—carried… Continue reading