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Review: [something's happening] – 12.10.22
A live improvisation by the sound and text duo of Iris Colomb and Daryl Worthington, captured at Cafe Oto last October.
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Review: Camilla Pisani – Phant[as]
Inner darkness unleashed over the walls and floors, manifesting as shadow ambience and evaporated techno.
Review: Yosuke Tokunaga – 8 Quadrants
8 Quadrants by Yosuke Tokunaga
Everything travels in circles. 8 Quadrants is built on overlain repetitions running at disparate speeds. Percussive sounds spin through tight-knit delays, while melodies repeat after extended exchanges between sweeping synth chords or chopped-up piano. At points there are even “beats”, manifest as skeletal trip hop
Review: DODE – Music for critters
Prepared piano and strange manipulations. The blurring of spaces and selves.
Feature: Review of 2022
Here are a handful of records I enjoyed last year.
Yara Asmar – Home Recordings 2018-2021 (Hive Mind Records)
The debut album of the Beirut-based puppeteer/video artist/multi-instrumentalist, built on recordings captured on cassette and mobile phone. These tracks hang on the edge of wakefulness, with the edges of diurnal
Review: Roxane Métayer – Visage Zygène
Fluttering assemblages for strings, woodwinds, voice and the playful meddling of FX.
Review: Babak Ahteshamipour – Specter, Spectrum, Speculum
Synthesisers crunched in trapezoidic arpeggiations, voices in service of nonsense.