Loops are everywhere, and when Steve Moore creates one that does not become redundant his audience slips into a different space. His CD LIGHT ECHOES (70'26")...
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Nov 30, 2012 3:56 am
Hidetoshi Koizumi is based in Tokyo under the name Hybrid Leisureland while Alexandre Scheffer works as Cell in Paris. "Scroll Slide" and "Hanging Masses" are...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 7, 2012 7:15 am
Stephen Parsick hears the call of the wild, and answers it. His concert CD ASTRAL DISASTER (76'28") plays like a souped-up rebuild of "Ricochet"; or "Departure...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 14, 2012 4:04 am
Creating layers of space out of pumping sequencer patterns, strident lead lines and harmonies warm and golden Chuck van Zyl & Terry Furber explore the inner...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 21, 2012 3:48 am
On WINTER GARDENS (63'21") Anthony Paul Kerby and Robert Davies achieve a tranquil and understated sonic poetry. Recording their fourth CD together as The...
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c_vanzyl
Dec 28, 2012 4:39 am
As digital and computer based synthesizers replace texture with gloss, many current music makers seek out classic analog styled instruments to attain a warmth...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 4, 2013 3:37 am
Highs in the 70s is WXPN's retrospective of the significant music realized during the decade of the 1970s, one of the most expansive periods in contemporary...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 11, 2013 3:49 am
Glenn Main is truly a player working in a player's medium. His musical influences include many of the greats, including Klaus Schulze, Vangelis, Tangerine...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 18, 2013 4:17 pm
Music by Stephen Parsick is of a machine-hewn darkness, roiling in a dense electronic atmosphere of doom. More difficult to know is from whence this intensity...
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c_vanzyl
Jan 25, 2013 4:11 am
Ever the innovator Saul Stokes should by now be known for exploiting the heretofore under-realized possibilities of the synthesizer studio. On FORMATION...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 1, 2013 6:01 am
UK synthesist Andy Condon releases music under the name The Glimmer Room. Those familiar with his work know it to always be full of interesting musical ideas,...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 8, 2013 3:28 am
As a rock guitarist readys himself to play the first note of a song does he ever consider how will this note or this song be any different from the multitude...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 15, 2013 4:29 am
UK synthesist Ian Boddy has thus far played live on STAR'S END Ambient Radio four times (five if we count the on-air concert he did with Mark Shreeve in their...
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c_vanzyl
Feb 22, 2013 3:40 am
Chronotope Project, the musical persona of Jeffrey Ericson Allen, produces an electronic music realized without turning off the conscious mind. His CD...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 1, 2013 3:47 am
Good Spacemusic suggests the possibility of escape from finite existence. Telomere, the extraordinary Electronic Musician Chris MacDonald, is working towards...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 8, 2013 11:54 am
Music by Casi Cada Minuto (also known as Salvo Herman) introduces new ideas, yet it consolidates impulses already in the air. The CD IN WHITE ROOMS (40'42") is...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 15, 2013 4:13 am
It is a sincere pleasure to navigate the sonic terrain of WHEN CAN (51'12"), the great collaboration between Kettel & Secede. Reimer Eising and Lennard van der...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 22, 2013 4:46 am
From out of the electronic wilderness comes NORDIC CIRCLES (66'33"), the album by Norwegian duo Circular (Bjarte Andreassen and Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik). While...
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c_vanzyl
Mar 29, 2013 2:46 am
PHASE SHIFT (64'20"), the third album by Hollan Holmes, more than lives up to the burden of high expectations. A spiritual sequel to his CDs "A Distant Light"...
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Apr 5, 2013 3:32 am
One might ask, what the heck is a "Liverdelphia"? Good question! Some will answer that it is a live album by UK synthesist Ian Boddy compiling and...
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c_vanzyl
Apr 12, 2013 4:27 am
The future starts slow. In the early American century it was envisioned as an ordered place made pleasant through conventional family roles and material...
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c_vanzyl
Apr 19, 2013 2:48 am
Eyes Cast Down is the ethereal music project by Greg Moorcroft. Using various guitars, synthesizers, computer programs and acoustic sources, Moorcroft has...
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c_vanzyl
Apr 26, 2013 3:57 am
CONVOCATION (63'18") is Matt Borghi & Michael Teager's musical experiment in somnolence. With Borghi on guitar and Teager on saxophone this album presents five...
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May 3, 2013 8:57 am
The first two tracks on ZONE OF COLD (61'46") really call attention to themselves. Using the dynamic range across a sustaining chord these pieces each build a...
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c_vanzyl
May 10, 2013 2:28 am
The musical releases of George Wallace have followed an interesting decades-long arc. His cassette "Sacred Earth" (1985) may be said to have born Wallace into...
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c_vanzyl
May 17, 2013 5:33 am
Duncan Goddard, the cyborg-like middleman for Radio Massacre International, has released a solo album called ELECTRICAL TAPE (60'00") - a work realized...
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c_vanzyl
May 24, 2013 1:51 pm
Stephen Hummel has become known for his work under the name SubtractiveLAD. His album THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS (52'58") offers four tracks of somewhat disparate...
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c_vanzyl
May 31, 2013 3:56 am
Does the world need yet another sequencer / synth / guitar album? Listening to EARSHOT (46'19") by Fanger & Schonwalder featuring: Cosmic Hoffmann the answer...
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c_vanzyl
Jun 6, 2013 3:31 am
It will be interesting to see who claims CENTRALIA (66'30") as their own. Who from the neo-spacemusic, post-rock, ambient-prog, or grunge-minimalism, camps...
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c_vanzyl
Jun 14, 2013 2:57 am
Using synthesizers and electronic percussion Jim Combs, recording under the name Sensitive Chaos, presents his wonderful musical vision on AMERISYNTHECANA...
