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News: Love As Fiction Records announces vinyl reissue of the classic debut album ‘A House on a Street in a Town I’m From’ from The Panics.
The dedicated Love As Fiction Records is continuing with its valuable project of reissuing classic antipodean albums on vinyl – albums that more often than not were only released on CD in the nineties and early two thousands. Following up on their reissue of Big Heavy Stuff’s ‘Size of the Ocean’ last year, it is …
EP Review: Blake Reyes – Vernacular
The ‘Axis Jazz’ series continues with Milan based Blake Reyes. The album was recorded in 3 different cities including the legendary “Officine Meccaniche“ studio in Milan (Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Erika Badhu), engineered by Taketo Gohara and with attendance of Jeff Mills during all sessions. The Steinway & Sons Grand Piano recorded for the album …
Album Review: Yelka – Krieg & Ferien
*From pointed pates hats fly into the blue / All winds resound as so with muffled cries. / Steeplejacks fall from roofs and break in two / And on the coasts—we read —flood waters rise. The storm has come, the seas run wild and skip /Landwards to squash big jetties there /Most people have a …
Album Review: Tomorrow comes the harvest – Evolution
Tomorrow Comes The Harvest project started with late Tony Allen, one of the originators of AfroBeat and Jeff Mills to get together to create an improvisational type of performance. The idea was to not pre-prepare or to preplan anything, but just to play in the moment spontaneously and to reach for the same understanding musically. Jean-Phi …
Album Review: Thomas Fehlmann – Umdrehen (Edition DUR)
“Turning around” is Thomas Fehlmann’s new magic word. It allows him to approach constraints and difficult topics from a new perspective, turning them into something positive. “Umdrehen” is an exploration of sound, combining linguistic and artistic work practices. The album starts with “Bundy/Blessing,” disrupting Fehlmann’s ambient surface and introducing spatial music that leaves gaps for …
Album Review: Angel Attack – Divine Practicalities
Angel Attack delivers his debut album Divine Practicalities on his label, House of Reptile. The Boston and London-based artist blends several sound palettes, sharing his most poignant body of work to date. The album includes two remixes by Univac and Blind Delon, respectively. The title track acts as a prelude to the album. A broken-beat, …
Album Review: MAREENA & JAKOJAKO – ATLAS DER GEDANKEN (Edition DUR 13)
Mareena is a DJ and runs her own ambient label Unrush, and JakoJako, also a DJ, recently released an EP on Mute. Two years ago, they made a joint album “Atlas of Thoughts” digitally available, on which the two artists dedicate themselves to their interpretation of ambient. For the “Atlas of Thoughts”, JakoJako worked exclusively with …
Album Review: Anika – Eat Liquid
EAT LIQUID is a commissioned work I, Annika Henderson, aka ANIKA composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium, Berlin, in collaboration with their visuals team, who provided a suitably out of this world experience made up of fractals, maps to the stars and a birds-eye-view of Berlin. The composition is inspired by Timothy Leary’s …
Album Review: Christian Hornbostel – Annus Alchemicus MINI LP
The number twelve has a strong symbolic meaning, not only according to mythological traditions and esoteric knowledge. The hours of the clock are divided into twelve hours, there are 12 archetypal zodiac signs, a year is divided into twelve months. Also in Christian Hornbostel‘s new concept album, called ‚Annus Alchemicus‘ (from the latin ‚Alchemical Year‘), …
Album Review: This is Techno Jazz Vol 2
This double album is a deep dive into Jazz-o-Tech carefully nurtured sound. What unites the label and its broad array of artists is a desire to fuse the traditional improvisation of jazz with the avant-garde experimentalism of techno. Over the last couple of years, it has done that to critical acclaim with a series of …