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“Sanctus” begins, and an ambience which seems based on an organ, but is harsher in tone plays and then drones. After a while a synth pad slowly fades in, which morphs and becomes distorted and seems to provide contrast to the original organ.…
Month: May 2020
Hyloiriscope – Fluxus
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“Fluxus I” begins with vibraphone arpeggios with low, pulsing, distorted bass in the background that soon is accompanied by some semi-tonal “laser”-like noise. The vibraphone breaks into a solo melody that repeats itself, and a swelling…
Jason Lescalleet – The Feckless Dreamer
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In this release, the first track is called “The Salmon Falls River”. In it, there is the sound of water flowing. Then, there are footsteps, a crash, the rustle of leaves, the cracking of twigs, but soon just the sound of flowing water remai…
Ingrid Plum – Dulme EP
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“Air” begins with the sound of symphonic music just at the edge of discernibility in the mix, and the sound of leaves rustling in trees can be heard. There is another rustle, and the wind picks up, rustling more leaves, then dies down again…
Jeritan – SAFE HAVEN EP
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SAFE HAVEN EP begins with the track “Stay Home”, with droning, tonal synth pads which are soon accompanied by the occasional pop. There is a brief burst of noise as connections are made, some bassy tones, and then another connection is made…
Blear Moon – Expanding lands
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Flute-like synths come in and are pitch modulated, playing almost playful melodies with quite a bit of delay. Low string-like melodies play as the low-end, repeating, evolving, and then moving toward simplicity again. The flute-like synths stop…
OPINION: Everything is beautiful, even ugly things.
Beauty is something that a lot of people have serious issues with. What we consider beautiful as a culture is often based on concepts which are filtered through ideas, which in turn might be part of an ideology, and by the time you get your beauty to appreciate its been, frankly, dismembered.
And yes, that beauty that you get is beautiful, in m…
Garrote – Valley of Knives
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“Valley of Knives” is the name of both this EP and the first track. As it begins, a few drum hits play in repetition, which leads to manic female vocal samples with reverb and delay on them accompanied by an instrument being played backwards…
Torturing Nurse – Validity
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The first side of this release is “Validity”. A full-spectrum, sustained blast of noise is played, with contortions of filtered, distorted resonance creeping up from behind it, which resolve in a bassy blast of noise, then return to their c…
Hermann Holsgr – Virtuell Weltanschauung
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“Wissenfiniti” begins Virtuell Weltanschauung, and periodic noise is made resonant, with the resonance being moved across the frequency spectrum, first fast, and then moved out of the range of human hearing. A low-end of noise is brought in…