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Test Card – Music For The Towers (Sound In Silence, 2020)

Chris — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:15:17 +0000

Oh it’s been Winter for a long time, or at least it feels like it has. The seemingly endless wind and rain and grey skies: the suppression of mood has really become palpable in recent weeks. One of my friends said recently she couldn’t wait for Summer and being able to sit out in […]

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Shuta Yasukochi – By The Sea (ROHS!, 2019)

Chris — Sat, 23 Feb 2019 15:49:12 +0000

It’s odd, I moved from one of the furthest places from the sea in the UK to virtually right on the coast and yet I very rarely actually go to visit the sea. I find the forests somewhat more rewarding, with their endlessly changing visage and less populated, endless branching pathways. There is an allure […]

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Poemme – Moments In Golden Light (Constellation Tatsu, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:18:25 +0000

In Summer, sunrise is an elusive beast. There are no end of sunsets for those of us who enjoy the later hours of the day, but the early climb is not one I frequently witness at this time of year. This is a shame: I think I slightly prefer the opening throes of sunrise over […]

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Casino Versus Japan – Suicide By Sun (Self-released, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 20:53:50 +0000

Suicide By Sun is not a statement on the heatwave we’ve been enduring for the last few weeks (at what point do heatwaves just become part of Summer?); rather, it’s a series of careful loops that embody our time spent beneath the Sun. Subtle distinctions are made on the time of year, through musical character and track […]

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Abul Mogard – Above All Dreams (Ecstatic, 2018)

Chris — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:12:54 +0000

Dissatisfaction. Summer never seems to quite live up to expectation for me; for as long as I’ve known Summer has always been the time that I’ve always felt something was missing from. Festivals, foreign breaks, day trips, I’ve always felt a hole irrespective of the time I’ve had. The notion, the prospect of Summer is always elevated above […]

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Chihei Hatakeyama – Butterfly’s Summer and Vanished (White Paddy Mountain, 2018)

Chris — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:57:57 +0000

It was the Solstice at the weekend, the year’s longest day and the official start of Summer. There’s curious paradox there though I find, that at the hemispheric peak of the year Summer is not already underway but only just beginning. From there on out the days shorten and cool, Summer actually more of a […]

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Brette Naucke – The Back of the Garden (Unifactor Tapes, 2018)

Chris — Mon, 12 Feb 2018 19:16:33 +0000

It’s been incredibly cold lately, but the threat of Spring is growing. The mornings have been bright and crisp, the Sun beginning to gain a little more ground in the sky with each passing day; if it wasn’t for the absence of heat and the continuing greyness of the plant world, I would have said […]

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Jefre-Cantu Ledesma – On The Echoing Green (Mexican Summer, 2017)

Chris — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 15:48:16 +0000

To listen to Cantu-Ledesma records of yesteryear, you would perhaps be surprised to hear the direction he has moved into recently; known early for thick, dense and noisy productions (with such titles as Shining Skull Breath and Speaking Corpse), he has relatively quickly evolved into Shoegaze and Hypnagogic Pop as of late. The result? Records that carve […]

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Billow Observatory – II: Plains/Patterns (Azure Vista Records, 2017)

Chris — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 19:17:10 +0000

Summer begins 9 days from now on the Solstice, the longest day of the year, though on evenings like today you would believe that we were deep in its throes already: the woods are rich and dense with foliage; plants have cycled through their Spring blooms and are moving through to their Summer maturation; the […]

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anthéne – orchid (Sound in Silence, 2017)

Chris — Mon, 01 May 2017 14:16:14 +0000

There’s a melancholia to Spring, anthéne would argue: whilst many seem to labour the point of its regenerative power and the much desired return to life that the season provides, there’s also loss. Loss at its conclusion, certainly, when the planet spins away and leans back from the Sun, cooling and killing in the process, […]

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