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Review: Kumi Takahara – See-through

Review: Kumi Takahara – See-through

FLAU. On “Nostalgia”, the third track on Takahara’s debut record, two piano-playing hands pass eachother like strangers on the stairs. They appear peripherally aware of one another, yet otherwise swept into their own daydreamt trajectories, as one hand ambles down and the other saunters up. The piece depicts this

Review: Danny Norbury - Light In August

The strings on Light In August are graceful but heavy, gliding laboriously like a boat tugged into harbour on mooring ropes. Piano steps methodically, tentatively – a staircase into a dark attic – and where so often such an instrument setup drifts with a weightless, almost ignorant delicacy, Norbury’s music stoops

Review: Ikebana - When You Arrive There

When You Arrive There comes into being almost entirely by itself. Guitar strums resonate in open tunings, with minimal fretwork filtering melody through the string vibration, while vocal melodies are carried into the ether on exhaled breaths, the underlying sighs audible as a hiss of respiratory vacation lurking behind the

Review: 0 - Soñando

Each of these seven pieces hangs like a wind chime, tethered above low frequencies as delicate formations of metallic resonance, swaying and clanging as acoustic melody is threaded gently through the bars. Sound arrives as finger-plucked cascades and softly spoken interplays between the glockenspiels and chimes that cradle the inner

Review: Liz Christine - Sweet Mellow Cat

Displacement and replacement. Liz Christine’s music is like a warm, cosy commune for loops and motifs that have broke free from their source, be it sickly romantic movie score or the playful mews from a cat’s tiny vocal cords. Here they find themselves in unlikely but welcoming company,