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ALBUM REVIEW: Richard Skelton – ‘These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound’: enthralling, organic electronica arising from the earth itself
MUSICIAN, free versifier, deep landscape investigator; psycheogeographer, artist, publisher: British polymath Richard Skelton is all of these things with a singular focus and identity. He turned to the sphere of music in 2004 after a close personal loss, making albums with a fierce geographical, experiential focus – initially very much about the undervisited, bleak West …
Track: WaqWaq Kingdom, aka DJ Scotch Egg & KiKi Hitomi, reveal new track – Positive Sound
Japanese electronic royalty Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg / Seefeel) and Kiki Hitomi (ex-King Midas Sound) have teamed up for a new EP, Dokkoisho, under their WaqWaq Kingdom moniker – out on 18th September via Phantom Limb. From it the pair have released a new track, Positive Sound. Dokkoisho is a Japanese word, an informal interjection roughly equivalent to …
TRACK: Richard Skelton – ‘For The Application Of Fire’: a new electronic spellbook
RICHARD SKELTON is absolutely what you might term a polymath. A poet, writer and artist, intensely concerned with the nature and experience of place, he only began to fashion musics in 2004 after a tragic personal loss. Since then he has released something like fifty albums and EPs, under his own name and aliases such …
Track: MC Yallah and Eomac Share New Track ‘Kakana’
After announcing their 12″ EP Mama Waliwamanyii along with the exhilarating title track earlier this month, Ugandan rapper MC Yallah and producer Eomac (one half of acclaimed electronic duo Lakker) have today shared the darker, brooding sounding ‘Kakana’, ahead of the EP’s release this Friday, 3rd July via Phantom Limb. ‘Kakana’ translates to “calm down” in response to the criticism Yallah has faced as an outspoken, independent MC in her local scene. …
Track: Enyang Ha – Plastic Run
The debut release on Visitant – the new imprint announced by Phantom Limb as a means to introduce people to electronic producers from across the globe, is a split release featuring South Korea’s Enyang Ha and Mexico’s Luz González Torres aka Damian Licht, and is out on March 13th on 12” vinyl. Enyang Ha has …