The latest reviews from Sonomu:
Fovea Hex, Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent Two: Huge (Die Stadt)
The second in a projected trilogy of EP gems (each with its own optional, long ambient remix companion) centred around unjustly neglected songstress Clodagh Simonds, whose “rediscovery” by Current 93´s David Tibet led to her entering into this august company of admirers-turned-collaborators. … [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:24, 11 Aug 2006Vidna Obmana, Opera for Four Fusion Works: Act III (Hypnos)
Belgian electronic experimentalist Vidna Obmana dedicates the third installment of his putative “Opera” quartet, “Reflections on Scale”, to Morton Feldman (1926-1987). The commitment to pay respectful tribute to the late American “proto-minimalist” is further shored up by his choice of collaborator:… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:17, 11 Aug 2006Éric La Casa, Secousses Panoramiques (Hibari Music)
Elevator music. Literally. This beautiful three-inch oddity from Japan comes hung on the inside of an birthday-like card of heavy stock, and features nothing more – or less – than 16 sensitively captured field recordings of the sounds of elevators (most located in Paris, one each in Antwerp and… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:20, 09 Aug 2006Alio Die, Suspended Feathers (Silente)
This reissue coincides with the tenth anniversary of Alio Die´s touchstone album, Suspended Feathers. Stefano Musso, the man behind pseudonym, created ambient music more in touch with its originator Brian Eno´s intentions than that of the concurrent “chill room” variant of ambient – beatless,… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:57, 07 Aug 2006Iris Garrelfs, Specified Encounters (Bip Hop)
Iris Garrelfs has made an entire album out of the “voice sounds” of Iris Garrelfs. The “specified encounters”, it would seem, are between she and her multifarious personality. Known for her DJing and production work as Bit Tonic, and club curating and label hosting activities in London with… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:37, 04 Aug 2006Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard, Early Morning Migration (Microcosm Music)
While both artists have recording careers as well as a friendship stretching back to 2000, Ezekiel Honig and Morgan Packard are new acquaintances of mine. Glad to meet them, because both craft very singular, warm, indeed seemingly handmade musical miniatures. The idea to put out an album together… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:32, 04 Aug 2006DJ Olive, Heaps As (The Agriculture)
Heaps As is a collection of grooves made by DJ Olive as he seemingly backpacked his way from gig to gig in Australia, recording in Perth and Hobart and mixing in the living rooms and guest bedrooms of friends along the way (including that of Lawrence English, label boss of Room 40, on which Olive… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:56, 02 Aug 2006
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