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Steve Tromans and Mark Sanders – Mountains, Meditations, Murmurations
Discus There is a meditative quality to the recent collaboration between pianist Steve Tromans and percussionist Mark Sanders that allows its gentle insinuations to permeate the psyche. Thoughtful...
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Swans (live at The Troxy)
London 24 August 2023 For over forty years now, Michael Gira‘s Swans have been creating some of the most uncompromising music on Earth. Well, I mean, there was that gap in the middle, where for...
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A Boris studio album guide – part one
Boris have been ploughing a wide and varied furrow through the field of guitar-based music for more than quarter of a century. Dave Pettit has taken on the task of listening to all of their studio...
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Stereocilia – Crystalline
Drone Rock Salted in stormy corruption, “Hunters Moon” celestially layers the drama. Twilights in subtle shifts of droning chord mixed with the sorrowful arch of see-sawing strings, metered by this...
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Oxbow / Nordra (live at Studio 9294)
London 5 September 2023 You know, I really slept on Oxbow. For, like, literally decades. I remember reading about them a lot in the music press (remember that?), and the focus was always on Eugene...
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New Model Army and Sinfonia Leipzig – Sinfonia
EarMusic Rock bands performing with an orchestra have always been a bit of a red flag for me. At best they can seem like an affectation or a misguided plea for credibility, at worst an illustration...
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Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns – Weejuns
Rune Grammofon For her latest missive from the stratosphere, Norwegian guitarist Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns has gathered two illustrious sonic cosmonauts in the shape of drummer Ole Mofjell and...
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Nihiloxica – Source of Denial
Crammed Discs Source Of Denial — a simple, apropos punning album name — hits the air with “Kudistro”, frantic organic drumming and blaring electronics that suggest an adrenaline junkie rave-up or the...
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The Monochrome Set – Radio Sessions: Marc Riley BBC 6 Music, 2011-2022
Tapete The initial flowering of the unique organ that is The Monochrome Set took place in the late seventies and pushed on through to the nineties, creating joyous and playful albums that revelled in...
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