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Geotic – To Not Now, Nor To Ever, Despair (Basement’s Basement, 2022)

Chris — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:46:34 +0000

I like Winter light. I like its lowness, its weakness, its brevity. In its strongest moments it has a brilliance and clarity that Summer can never equal, sharp sunlight cutting through cold and clear skies; at its weakest it hardly introduces itself at all, barely penetrating the clouds to flatly illuminate the world of starkness […]

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Fennesz – Agora (Touch, 2019)

Chris — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

To stay at home is to feel safe, avoiding having to confront the endless barrage of social interactions and the anxieties of navigating this modern, labyrinthine world. Like most fears, it’s been named, been labelled: agoraphobia. Sufferers will know the feeling of stress it induces all too well, of the ways in which they work […]

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Aaron Martin – Touch Dissolves (IIKKI, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:34:43 +0000

Your fingertips have such incredible capacity for feeling that you can perceive imperfections in a surface on the order of nanometers. Of all the senses, touch bridges the gap between ourselves and objects or others in a way that nothing else can, and this extreme sensitivity lended to physicality creates a powerful bond. It isn’t […]

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Aries Mond – Come On Let’s Wait (Eilean Records, 2018)

Chris — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:57:58 +0000

I didn’t believe it would snow here this week, certainly not to the degree it did. We’ve heard the doomsday predictions of meteorologists before, and the little local microclimate made it seem all the more unlikely, and yet it did. Prodigiously, briefly. Normal weekday life here just ground to a halt; first as we stopped […]

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Bruno Sanfilippo – Unity (DRONARIVM, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:28:09 +0000

There’s a reductive simplicity in Unity that makes it somewhat difficult to talk about; like lots of Modern Classical and Electroacoustic productions it leans heavily on the violin, cello and in particular the piano to carve out its story lines and textural plot points. It’s not even particularly idiosyncratic; each piece seems to occupy its own distinct […]

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Duane Pitre – Feel Free (Important Records, 2012)

Chris — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:49:56 +0000

It’s difficult to talk about a record that sounds as organic, as free-spirited, and as easygoing as Duane Pitre’s effortlessly gorgeous 2012 LP Feel Free. Wrought largely from stringed instruments, recorded tones have been rearranged by computer synthesis into a seamless 40 minute record that moves gracefully from one chaptered sequence into the next. Harp, hammered dulcimer, […]

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Albums of the Decade: Fennesz – Venice (Touch Records, 2004)

Chris — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 15:55:09 +0000

Venice is far from the easiest Fennesz record to talk about, not least that in the 12 years that have passed since its release it has proved to be a strangely prescient record. Whilst the deep blue idealism of its cover art and early sentimentality create a picturesque vision of beauty in place, there’s a seed of […]

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Ian William Craig – Centres (FatCat Records, 2016)

Chris — Thu, 21 Jul 2016 17:00:46 +0000

Make no mistake, this is the most dense, most affecting, and most elusive of all of Craig’s records. It’s also the darkest journey since the bubbling distortions of A Forgetting Place (the forerunner of A Turn of Breath) and you will find that no amount of written text will ever totally satisfy the complicated scope of this crushing […]

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Bamboo Stilts – Beneath The Bark (Eilean Records, 2015)

Chris — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 15:37:39 +0000

Despite the pairing of Orla Wren and Leigh Toro on their first collaborative effort, Bamboo Stilts lives up to its namesake by leaving us rather high and dry on the emotional impact front. Whilst on some of my earlier listens I thought the new record Beneath The Bark was quite an interesting electroacoustic affair, subsequent explorations have […]

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Manual – Azure Vista (Darla, 2005/2015)

Chris — Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:00:01 +0000

People always ask me what my favourite season is, and although I never say Summer there’s no conceding that for me, and admittedly for most, some of my fondest memories come from the warm heart of the year. Foolishly sunburnt skin, muggy days, long nights, high spirits and more often than not a change of scene […]

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