Electronic

  • Robert Lippok, Kaan Bulak – Kubus

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    Kaan Bulak’s piano opens this debut from the Berlin duo with a searching, tender solo. It is so engaging in fact that the entrée of Robert Lippok’s electronics go unnoticed at first. He drifts in like a fog, disregarded right up until the point it is difficult to focus on anything else. As the 13…

  • Various Artists – Far Away but Ever Closer: Young Lithuanian Composers Abroad

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    This collection landed in my inbox on the busiest email day of the year so far. While it’s true that I enjoy my email a great deal more than most, this particular day was genuinely overwhelming. Scanning the titles that came in, this compilation of young Lithuanian composers living and working abroad felt more arcane…

  • Syntax – Current

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    The notes that accompany Laurian Bardoș’ extraordinary new release Current report that the work is influenced by psychology. “From this perspective the evolution of his music has been greatly influenced by the study of perception and the Gestalt theory, which connects the spatial (geometric) form with the temporal form (sound).” Gestaltism comes from the Berlin…

  • DeWalta – Lyra and Lyra π

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    David Koch dropped a pair of new DeWalta releases yesterday, one of which premiers a new offshoot of his Meander label called Horizon Pi. Lyra is a six-track double-LP that runs 56 minutes. That’s accompanied by a five-piece ambient disc called Lyra π. Koch’s work offers a level of sophistication too seldom found in house…

  • Original Past Life – Inference/ Interference

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    Perth’s Original Past Life (OPL) defines itself as an “atmospheric noise trio.” It is a suitable description, albeit open to misinterpretation. Inference/Interference is not noisy, at least not aggressively so. There is a wide range of sounds employed throughout the album’s 44 minutes, all of them more than palatable. This is an exceedingly likeable album.…

  • r s v – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

    This album’s title, besides being something of a mouthful, describes a series of DNA sequences. Referred to by the acronym CRISPR, they live in the genomes of organisms like bacteria and archaea. Scientists have developed the ability to use CRISPR sequences in genome-editing procedures that are revolutionizing medicine, agriculture and raising one or two bioethical…