Noise
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Alt Empordà, which sits on the northeastern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, is best known internationally for its Dali Theatre Museum. Visitors can find many of Salvador Dali’s original works there. In January, the picturesque comarca was slammed by an EF2 category tornado with winds as high as 180 km/hr. Damage was reported in Cistella,…
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When people talk about the 1980s, it’s often in hyper-pop-culture terms. Hair gel, shoulder pads, synth pop, yuppie culture, etc. In fact, it was an intense, often serious time both culturally and artistically. Americans chose a former B-movie actor of questionable intelligence to be their president. On the other side of the Cold War, we…
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Vancouver’s Adrian Dziewanski describes his Desire Paths of the Sun & Moon as a mining exercise. We Canadians are pretty good at turning natural resources into marketable products, which is precisely what he’s done with this five-track disc. He’s taken a series of dusty old recordings and transformed them into a uniquely listenable series of…
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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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There is a floorboard outside my daughter’s bedroom that creaks loudly when stepped on. We have woken her more than once, trying to navigate our way around that particular piece of hardwood. Such is life in a house built more than a hundred years ago. Carlo Giustini’s new album La stanza di fronte (The Other…
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Billed as “an exploration of the techniques, methods and technologies used in post-war western avant-garde music and sound art,” this cassette from Bristol’s zoller is a punishing listen from start to finish. This is not, however, a simple matter of noise for shock value. (Although there are one or two jolts, to be sure.) Alex…
The Moderns 