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Review: Suren Seneviratne – blue thirty-five

Review: Suren Seneviratne – blue thirty-five

BLUE TAPES. While there’s nothing cryptic about the setup here – a Korg SQ1 sequencer, a circuit-bent Yamaha MU-15 tone generator, a cluster of disrupted MIDI patterns – Suren Seneviratne’s compositions seem to dangle like unfinished sentences, cut short of communicating the entire message. Describing this fleeting release is only

Review: Wild Anima - Blue Twenty-Two

The reverb on Alex Alexopolous’ voice is exact. Thick enough to conjure the indistinction of semi-consciousness – the groggy half-hour upon first awakening, the auditory hallucinations that can often bedeck the boundary of sleep or deep meditation – yet not so dense to obscure the humanity that resonates within her melodies. I

Review: Mats Gustafsson - Piano Mating

There is no such thing as listening to Piano Mating quietly. Gustafsson activates those tones that are always loud, tapping into the resonant frequency of my eardrums. And then there’s the strange way in which volume levels increase via sheer duration, like a gushing tap filling a sink over

Review: Father Murphy - Calvary

Ten minutes. That’s all Father Murphy grant to their sonic illustration of the execution place of Jesus Christ, Dismas and Gestas. It is a preparation and a ghostly residue; the assembly of deathly circumstance ahead of time and the echo of a monumental event now passed. The events are