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Review: Edu Comelles – Still Life

Review: Edu Comelles – Still Life

FLUID AUDIO / FACTURE It’s hard to tell whether Still Life is pulling itself apart or bringing itself together. The album is partly a magnet for the worn and estranged – sounds that carry the impression of having trekked 15 miles to arrive here, tattered and glitched, slumping down on shaking

Interview: Sound Awakener + Dalot

Interview: Sound Awakener + Dalot

On the new collaborative record between Vietnamese artist Sound Awakener (Nhung Nguyen) and Greek artist Dalot (Maria Papadomanolaki), I hear the imprint of both physical distance and immaterial intimacy. Little Things was created during an 18-month exchange between the two artists, during which they traded sonic materials and shared their

Interview: Gideon Wolf

Interview: Gideon Wolf

Year Zero is always swirling, contracting, expanding, thinning, like dehydrated plant matter kicked up on the wind, tossed back and forth over the cracked earth. Much like the latter work of Talk Talk, Gideon Wolf’s latest album was created by collaging individual recordings of strings, voices and electronics, each

Review: Cello & Laptop - Transient Accidents

What is the laptop to the cello? It’s a landscape generator: a vibrant backdrop of birdsong, insects and the occasional whoosh of passing traffic, like a lush field spilling out the back of a village in the summer. The cello navigates the field recordings like a snake carving a

Review: Gideon Wolf - Near Dark

Immediately, I imagine abandoned buildings bedizened with the arboreal jewellery of neglect. Ivy spiralling around eroding stone pillars. Jagged branches forcing their way through window frames. Voices and strings weave themselves into beautiful beds of overgrowth, chaotic in how they swoop over and under eachother. Strange distorted samples gleam like

Review: Matthew Collings - Splintered Instruments

According to Collings, Splintered Instruments is a “revolt against machines” – not only those used to make music (although the vast predominance of organic and acoustic sounds indicates this to be a factor), but also for the way that machines “exist”; the predestination of their narrative and the unambiguity and simplicity