Library Recommendation
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Released: 2018 Label: Room40 Genre: Contemporary Warm, relaxed and tranquil. This 2 ½ hour epic collection of ambient soundscapes deserves to be received as a major release. Several years in the works, the album’s 10 pieces were inspired by “site-specific performance situations” according to the album’s notes. “These include a durational performance in Los Angeles at…
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Released: 2022 Label: Establishment Records Genre: Contemporary Serving an invigorating intensity that exits outside of nowhere Debashis Sinha’s delicious retelling of electronic trepidation fuses imminent danger together with a forward thinking urgency. Often sounding like machines in freefall improvising a way forwards … Magazine Sixty
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Released: 2017 Label: Independent Genre: Contemporary Fair warning. A little more than three and a half minutes into this darkly foreboding record, you will be startled by a grotesque, inhaled scream. The fact that this occurs at the front end of an opening piece entitled “Angels” may cause you to wonder how such a terrible sound…
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Released: 2011 (originally released 1984-1991) Label: 4AD Genre: Alternative This Mortal Coil, the subject of a new comprehensive box set, was in the public eye an encapsulation of 4AD’s sound and style spread out over three albums and associated singles and one-offs. And though founder Ivo Watts-Russell didn’t want This Mortal Coil to be seen as…
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Released: 2021 Label: Independent Genre: Electroacoustic Tifold af Fri Form og Fælles Motiv revolves around the sounds of a new, self-built synthesizer depicted on the cover, the clock wheel sequencer, mounted on a stand with a crank handle and a series of small metal points attached to the wheel’s body. As the wheel is rotated, magnets…
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