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Knowledge of the Possible begins with “Haunted by the Legend of Better Days”, and the sound of noise, perhaps with some ring modulation, can be heard fading in slowly, then out slowly. A richly textured brass pad is heard next, as sustained…
Month: April 2020
Black Robert – Antalya
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The first track of this album, “Outside the Antalya” begins as a synth pad with a long attack plays, and a xylophone-like patch plays a melody. A rhythm is played with little bits of white noise made into a percussive instrument, and soon t…
Ryota Horii. – Bitte Vergib Mir / Lost City
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“Bitte Vergib Mir -贖罪-” opens this EP, beginning with a droning bass tone, which is soon accompanied by a droning low voice patch, then what sound like restless whispering voices with lots of reverb on them. A synth string then plays a …
WHΛLTHISИEY – Immediathism
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WHΛLTHISИEY’s Immediathism starts with “Boredom”, as a reverb-laden minor-key melody interspersed with deep, but short bass notes plays with a lush pad that shimmers in and out slowly. The piano is not repetitious and there is some deve…
SINNEN – MUR
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The EP release MUR by the band SINNEN begins with the track “DIVE_TERN”. This track starts with a slow beat which relies on the ride cymbal to propel it forward, and then a guitar comes in laden with heavy amounts of reverb and plays an Eas…
CHOKE – GRIP DOMINANCE
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The release GRIP DOMINANCE by CHOKE begins with soft organ playing a three note minor-key melody under short, synthesized bell tones with a delay effect on them. After a while, there is a hint of bongos playing an echoing rhythm behind the bell …
Yasuyuki Uesugi – Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain
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Accepting Excessive Information Is Violence To My Brain begins with the track “No Matter What I Achieve, I Will Not Be Satisfied”. It is a droning track, but is quite active in its stasis, with bursts of resonance popping out of the noise, …
Whirling Hall of Knives – Ovoidulations
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Ovoidulations begins, as a synthesizer which sounds like a synth string with a very long filter sweep on it plays a mid-frequency note that drones, and another note comes in and plays in harmony with the first note, which is followed by a synth …
Alan Morse Davies – Junk Shop Radio
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This album is the result of Alan Morse Davies recording the sound of him going through an AM radio when the power was out during a typhoon in Hong Kong.
“Hong Kong AM1” is the first track. First, there is the sound of periodic noise bein…
Lotus on the Shore – Astral Projection
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Lotus on the Shore’s Astral Projection begins with “Part I”, where an extremely overdriven wash of bass and guitar play a semi-tonal noise riff repeatedly. A reverb-drenched bass drum comes in, playing a simple rhythm over the wash. There …