Erased Tapes
Track: Kiasmos reveal beautiful juxtaposition of modern classical and electronica on new track, Burst
Kiasmos, the collaborative project of Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds and Faroese musician Janus Rasmussen, is back with exciting news about their forthcoming album ‘II’, slated for release on July 5th via Erased Tapes. To kick things off, they’ve unveiled a mesmerizing new single titled “Burst” and announced new live performances, including a show at London’s …
Track: Sheherazaad – Dhund Lo Mujhe
Following her highly praised first single for ‘Mashoor‘, late last year, American composer and vocalist Sheherazaad has announced details of her forthcoming LP ‘Qasr’, (Translating to “castle” or “fortress” in Urdu) is set for release on the 1st of March via Erased Tapes. Along with the announcement she has shared her new track ‘Dhund Lo Mujhe’ (“Search For Me”) On the …
Track: Peter Broderick and Ensemble 0 release unreleased Arthur Russell track, Give It To The Sky. Watch beautiful accompanying live video, here
It seems as more time passes since his death, the more the extraordinary musical cannon of Arthur Russell is explored and appreciated. Musician and composer Peter Broderick has teamed up with the French 12 piece group Ensemble 0 to record a(nother) unreleased gem, Give It To The Sky. Of the track, Peter says “‘Give It …
PREMIERE: Piers Thibault stuns with the brief and brilliant ‘Dusk’, announces debut EP ‘Ire’
If you’re reading this, we bet there have been times when you’ve wanted to completely lose yourself in a piece of music. French artist Piers – last name Thibault – is great at producing pieces that evoke that all-consuming longing. His debut EP, Ire, isn’t even 13 minutes long, but it’s an ideal refuge. If …
Track: Roedelius & Story show us the beauty of four hands working in empathy on the nuanced piano duet, ‘Ba’
PEOPLE can often bandy about terms such as legendary and scion with a carefree laziness; but, when it comes to German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, those epithets are both wholly apt and richly deserved. And with something around the 90-album mark in his catalogue since …
See: Rival Consoles drops the darkly pulsing choreography of ‘Monster’ ahead of tomorrow’s album
WITH a sooo hotly anticipated album, Overflow, out in the racks tomorrow, December 3rd, for Erased Tapes – the label originally set up specifically to bring Ryan Lee West’s musical vision to the world – Rival Consoles have released one final teaser, and that’s a ten-minute, monochrome filmed dance piece for the album track, “Monster”. …
News: Roedelius and Tim Story will enter into a four-handed piano conversation for Erased Tapes in January; hear ‘Spirit Clock’
A GENUINE, gilt-edged musical legend, German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius, now into his eighth decade with us, is to enter into a two-way piano conversation with American composer and friend of 40 years Tim Story for Erased Tapes in January. The 11-track album, entitled 4 Hands, allows the pair to explore an …
Track: Rival Consoles – ‘I Like’: generative, alienated and conversational, an off-kilter marriage of speech and silicon
RIVAL CONSOLES are on the home straight towards the release of a new dance-collaborative album, Overflow, in the first days of December, and as you’d expect it’s pristine and beautiful while also springing from the well of the leftfield. He’s truly great, one of my top three electronica artists of the moment, along with HAAi, …
The brilliant Rival Consoles drops the echoing summer chatter of ‘Pulses Of Information’ and announces live dates
WITH a series of British live dates coming up across the autumn – for details of those, pop down the page a little – the brilliant Ryan Lee West, aka Rival Consoles, has dropped a new summery slice of his characteristically chattering, atmospheric electronica; it’s entitled “Pulses Of Information”, and you can delight in it …
Album review: Masayoshi Fujita – ‘Bird Ambience’: a marimba and electronica masterclass for meditative thought
IF YOU like your music deliciously abstract, abstractedly delicious; arranged beautifully, an absolute world of evocative sound; fell hard, for instance, for the albums Ryuichi Sakamoto made with Alva Noto, Revep, Summvs, Vrioon, et al; or have adored the lusciousness of Chihei Hatakeyama’s new album, Late Spring, then sit down, sit up – Japanese vibraphonist, …