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Mary Lattimore – Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (Ghostly, 2023)

Chris — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:37:48 +0000

As we move through the female ambient musician golden age, which I think it’s fair to say is slowly elapsing around us as more women find themselves in increasing prominence, a particular kind of artist seems to arrive at my doorstep more regularly than others. Perhaps that’s an aesthetic or taste driven thing on my […]

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Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (Kranky, 2007)

Chris — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:56:31 +0000

It recently came to my attention that I’m now classed as being in my late twenties, which struck me as an odd thing to consider. My 28th birthday passed by in April with little ceremony, similar to my 27th, both of which were lockdown birthdays, so I suppose on that basis I don’t feel 28. But […]

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Joshua Van Tassel – Dance Music Volume II: More Songs For Slow Motion (2020)

Chris — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 16:34:27 +0000

I was in Scotland a few weeks ago, tucked away in some quiet corner of the Cairngorms, away from the world, away from the pandemic, away from everything. I needed it desperately, the opportunity to fuck off out of the house and put distance between me and work and people and the constant restlessness, to […]

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Mikael Lind – Contingencies (ARCHIVES, 2019)

Chris — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 01:12:04 +0000

The world is filled with possibilities and probabilities: every meeting you have, every new connection made, every chance encounter, changes the course of your future in some way. Even fleeting instances can spiral into unforeseen events in your causal timeline, all because of a moment. As another expermentation into live improvisation by Lind, Contigencies embraces the notion […]

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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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Mikael Lind – Strings and Clusters (Polar Seas, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:42:46 +0000

We are, each of us, a walking bag of emotions and thoughts at any given moment. These swirl and gestate in complex patterns, some of them expressed, some suppressed, others we aren’t even aware of. It is not simple to put these things across, and never possible to convey the full breadth of one’s myriad […]

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Grouper – Grid Of Points (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Fri, 11 May 2018 18:38:02 +0000

I often feel like I have a great deal to say, and either nobody to say it to or the inability to articulate myself adequately. It’s an itch, an ache, this feeling of constrained emotion and no way to express it in a satisfying way. I think it bleeds out subconsciously, inviting its way into […]

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Christina Vantzou – No. 4 (Kranky, 2018)

Chris — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 19:11:00 +0000

Vantzou’s work has always had a certain cinematic, gauzy magic to it. Often times it deeply reminds me of Brian McBride’s solo work (unsurprising given their collaborative The Dead Texan project together), but No. 4 begins to feel a little breakaway. Not that this is any way a bad thing; indeed this sentiment of motion and change […]

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Aaron Martin – A Room Now Empty (Preserved Sound, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:09:05 +0000

It’s been virtually two years to the day since my granddad died. If I close my eyes I can still see the living room, late night, gentle lamp light, palliative care bed up in the corner facing the french doors. That was the last time I saw him, body just clinging on. My grandma still […]

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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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