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Review: Jeremy Haladyna - Mayan Time Mayan Tales

Magic is materialising within the drip and splash of water on cold stone, illuminating the leaky cave walls in brief and sporadic bursts. One imagines the sound as a mysterious light that flashes throughout the pitch black, dancing with a vibrancy that gifts life and activity to a predominantly dormant

Review: Philip Blackburn - Ghostly Psalms

I can imagine that to be in the presence of the “Duluth Harbor Serenade” recording session must have been a most surreal experience. While the harbor’s sonic fingerprint usually manifests over the course of a day – conducted by the ritualistic, day-to-day triggers upon which each sound resounds in the

Review: Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Rhízōma

Rhízōma operates on the sort of scale that could either have only spawned from the influence of natural landmarks (canyons, mountains), or that which has been painted illustriously on the cavernous insides of the imagination. High strings resemble eerie slithers of light penetrating an absolute pitch black. Hostility lurks in

Review: Alexander Berne and the Abandoned Orchestra - Flickers of Mime / Death of Memes

Something about the album’s first disc – Flickers of Mime – feels deceptive. It toys with listener expectation as turns in the narrative emerge and collapse within seconds. It meddles with recollection as new textures fade into nothing quickly enough to feel as though they might just be figments of the

Review: Ryan Scott - Maki Ishii Live

Composed between 1988 and 1992, the three pieces of Maki Ishii Live highlight a point at which Ishii focused his attention on the percussion concerto. The way he approaches percussion is as though he’s discovering it for the first time – these three pieces marvel at the most primitive sonic

Review: Harley Gaber - In Memoriam 2010

Just like the smudged, distorted gibbous of a half-hidden planet earth on the album’s cover, the music within is muffled, blurred and spun out of shape. Sometimes it sounds like alien chatter heard beneath murky water, phased into communicative pulses and shrieking in high, theremin-esque wails. But at other