Liverpool Sound City 2012
#Ambient
Album Review
Oren Ambarchi / Audience of One
On 'Audience of One', Australian multi-instrumentalist and sometime Sunn O))) collaborator Oren Ambarchi takes a voyage beyond his previous core sound and sets sail for avant garde pastures, through a tempest of biblical proportions.
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First Look
This Heart Belongs To You / Soapy
Glaswegian drone lord Hivvers offshoot This Heart Belongs To You unloads a heavenly 9 min Kevin Shields 'Coral Sea'-period space echo epic of electric and acoustic guitars which glide and glide towards a vocal that will tell you just what...
First Look
Oneohtrix Point Never / I Only Have Eyes for You
Oneohtrix Point Never is easily one of my favourite artists doing their thing right now. This new track titled ‘I Only Have Eyes For You’ has been put together as a part of Doug Aitken’s recent ‘art-something-or-other’...
Gig
I first became aware of Daniel Lopatin (AKA Oneohtrix Point Never) at All Tomorrow’s Parties last year. He appeared as one of Animal Collective’s choices and I recall lying on the floor in a drunken haze, absorbing the strange fuzz...
EP Stubble - Unsigned
Linear Bells / Los Angeles
As geographically irregular as the city itself (as told by the facts laid out on the bandcamp page for the release), 'Los Angeles' by ambient composer Linear Bells mixes elements of ambience, neo-classical piano melodies and experimental...
Album Review
Windy & Carl / We Will Always Be
The first Windy & Carl release since 2008 sees the Michigan duo return once again to the Kranky fold after what we are led to believe has been pretty tumultuous times for the husband and wife team (they claim to have hit a few bumps in the road...
EP Stubble - Unsigned
Hollow Mountain / Hollow Mountain EP
A new season and a new collaborative release. I present to you, 'Hollow Mountain' between composer Tom Adams (Toma, The Mountaineering Club [Orchestra]) and electronics master, Rhys Copeland (line specta), their début release in the...
In Depth
I'm going to open as I mean to close. This album is the greatest thing I've ever listened to and I shall now explain why. It's going to be hard to be concise.
Greg Haines is a British born, now Berlin-residing, neo-classical...
Album Stubble - Unsigned
Wil Bolton / Kollane
I find myself forgiving ambient music quite often. I, myself, am a performer in soundscape and ambient music and I am particularly interested in others that use found sounds in collaboration with synthetic sounds. With this practice comes the...
