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Review: Duane Pitre - Bayou Electric

At the base of Bayou Electric is a field recording that Pitre made in Louisiana back in August 2010. It’s unmistakably the sound of the night; the soundscape of wildlife filling the empty spaces where light and landscape used to be, with insects purring and chirping like water flow

Review: Juan Carlos Vasquez - Collages

Collages is a whirlpool of reaction and sensation, of legacy and private detail. The album takes the solo works of several classical composers (Beethoven, Ysaye, Mussorgsky, Bach, Borges, Chopin, Satie), and smears it upon the palm of digital processing, wedging mirrors into performances that, in their original form, may appear

Review: Diane Cluck - Boneset

Like the tail of a blue whale, Cluck’s voice flicks upward and descends elegantly back down; it’s a mountain road now, curving tightly around chords and straightening out again momentarily; it’s a candle flickering now, ticking into sudden right angles in a dramatic overreaction to a gentle

Review: Total Life - Radiator

It’s the serration that hits me first – the jagged lip of Radiator’s solid wall of hum, sanding down my ear canals as buzzes into my head. The force of the sound is inescapable, and my concentration is consumed instantly as the record cuts into full volume from the

Review: Eliane Radigue - Adnos I-III

The pace of Adnos is meticulously judged. The swells and recessions within each of these pieces could be due to my ears delicately shifting focus between each strand of detail – thus subconsciously teasing certain frequencies to the fore and sending others into near silence – or they could be genuine evolutions

Review: Gaspar Claus - Jo Ha Kyu

The first sound on Jo Ha Kyu is an assertively plucked low note from Claus’ cello, which rattles very slightly before cutting out on a warm, resonant hum. It’s like a doorway swinging open; an invitation for the album’s collaborators to enter Claus’ creative space and be heard,

Interview: Nathan Amundson (Rivulets)

The message behind We’re Fucked seems to partially derive from what you refer to as a “vapid cultural/musical landscape”. Would you care to elaborate on what you mean by that? Well the label were doing their promotional stuff, and they asked me to give them a blurb. I