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Lena, Extended Gestures for Cello (CDR Hypnos Secret Sounds)

As an artist new to the recording scene, calling yourself simply "Lena" is certainly one way to make sure you don´t stand out in the crowd. I believe there are already a handful of Lenas on the record store shelves; I myself am currently working on a review of the third album by another Lena, the... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:11, 22 Sep 2008

Various Artists, Mandala, Volume 1: A Chinese Whisper of Drone Music (3" CDR Ex Ovo)

After launching their new label in a big way, with the gigantic full-length compilation CD "I, Mute Hummings" and its complement "Mute Scribbles", Tobias Fischer and Mirko Uhlig launch another big project in a more demune manner. "Chinese whispers" is a children´s game which where I grew up, we... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:21, 15 Sep 2008

Dr. Nagual X, Illégal Dub Music (Djahkooloo Records)

Dr. Nagual X apparently has a long history both as instrumentalist and producer, building his own studio three years ago. Illégal Dub Music is his second album. Truly a doctor without borders, he brings together the swing and sway of dub rhythms and the gritty, sweaty, unrelenting noisiness of... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:58, 08 Sep 2008

Serafina Steer, Public Spirited (3" CDR Static Caravan)

Nice English lass with a pretty, well-articulated, theatrical delivery sings songs about eggs, kisses and kitchen shelves, going to or being in the movies with her best friends and whether or not the meek really would want to inherit the earth. While seeming domesticated, Serafina Steer is, as... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:51, 04 Sep 2008

Colourform, Visions of Surya (Virtual World Records)

Between 1999 and 2001, Matt Hillier (aka Ishq) worked on an album as pretty and singular as the species of flower for which it is named. "Orchid" was originally released as a single (though lengthy) CD on Interchill in 2002 and shortly thereafter with an accompanying disc of some forty additional... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:30, 28 Aug 2008

Nicolas Bernier, Les Arbres (No Type)

A real coffee-table book of a package. Housed in its handsome slipcover are a slim CD case and six quality postcards, each featuring a montage by visual artist urban9, with its title on the back. Each title naturally corresponds to a complementary track by composer Nicolas Bernier. The idea... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:41, 28 Aug 2008

Defraktor, A Hole in the Void of the World (2X3" CD Lona Records)

Danish electronic musician with a discography scattered across labels from Europe to Hong Kong, home of the Lona label. Defraktor is just one of the names under which Karsten Hamre releases his various styles of electronic music (elsewhere in these pages you can read about one such album under the... [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:43, 15 Aug 2008