Electronic
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By the end of the 1980s, the excitement surrounding early ambient music artists like Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Daniel Lanois had given way to the artistically suspect new age movement. Truthfully, the word movement gives that dark period too much credit. The only thing labels like Wyndham Hill managed to move was units. Lots…
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New York duo Leena has won my attention. This is less difficult than I’ve made it sound. Truth is, I can be had in three easy steps. First, write me a somewhat cryptic email. Something along these lines: “All of our work is improvised electronic music using hardware, pedals and synths. Everything is 30 minutes longform…
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Nick Sutton’s 11-minute score for a short film called Transmission has been expanded by the talented composer in the form of his first full-length album. Transmission Original Soundtrack is a meditative, often unsettling work. The album opens, appropriately enough, with “The Screen.” Sutton builds a real sense of foreboding in these first five and a…
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Belgium’s fine Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere. label released a bundle of four new cassettes on Friday. Alocasia Garden, Christopher Whitley and Tereshkova have each produced a new title. The fourth is a compilation featuring one track each from Uaxactun, RVH, False Moniker and Sequences. All of the contributions are faithful to the AVA methodology. Alocasia Garden…
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Has there ever been a more appropriate moment for an album called Lowered Expectations? At a time when institutions and their leadership seem to fail us as often as not, Bradley Sean Alexander has chosen precisely the right title for his new three-track release. His work is equally appropriate for this new year (he chose…
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Music isn’t a language. It’s multiple languages. And like the world’s native tongues, some relate to one another. House and techno are both electronic in the same way that Italian and Spanish are both Latin-based. In this respect, multimedia artist and experimental composer Joshua Curry in San Jose, California can lay claim to a unique…
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