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Review: Dagmar Gertot – Os Lacrimale

Review: Dagmar Gertot – Os Lacrimale

CYCLIC LAW. Built upon beckoning glossolalia, the songs of Russian performance artist Dagmar Gertot feel as though they’re on the very brink of accruing meaning. She proclaims vowels with the grandeur of someone about to recite poetry, yet she never moves into the formation of words. The instruments (accordion,

Review: SHEDIR – Falling Time

There’s a track on Falling Time called “Skyness”, which translates as “the essence of what it means to be the sky”. The audio matches this premise perfectly: synthesisers carried upon the breeze, cloud-like bundles of bass frequency, white noise whooshing in panoramic circles. It’s a process of embodiment

Review: Northaunt - Istid I-II

In the absence of humans and animals, what stirs? And why does it stir? Istid stretches back to a time before we existed; when the landscape respired purely through wind and water flow, modulating slowly through plant growth, tectonic event and dramatic shifts in weather. Everything happens for its own

Review: Peter Bjärgö - The Architecture of Melancholy

The Architecture of Melancholy may open on the ritualistic drum cycles, streaming background drones and cavernous echo that place it squarely within the Cyclic Law bracket, but Peter Bjärgö’s sound begins to bleed out of this dark ambient core rather rapidly. This process begins with the introduction of his

Review: Psychomanteum - Oneironaut

The expansive dreamworlds of Oneironaut bare relation to those crafted by Robert Rich and Steve Roach, painting infinite horizons that flit between resembling earthly, desolate plains to depicting immersive stretches of outer space. Processed guitar and keyboards lie at the core, veiled somewhere beneath a cavernous reverb that turns their

Interview: Federico Ágreda (Triangular Ascension)

Could you explain the concept behind Leviathan Device? Basically, the Leviathan Device is a fictional device that is bound to cleanse the land from all crawling beings with the force of water. It basically represents a way of apocalypse but with a positive point of view – a way to accept

Review: Triangular Ascension - Leviathan Device

One can sense the narrative unfolding here without even reading about it. The album moves in very purposeful and provocative ways – the listener is taken places and left to witness events transpire, with sounds either adopting a forefront role in amongst the developing activity, or splashed across the music’s