Some new reviews from Sonomu.
Various Artists, Nordic Lounge Weekend (Dealers of Nordic Music)
Your guide to young, hip (and monied) Stockholm, complete with illustrated fifty-page booklet featuring the snazziest bars, clubs, restaurants, boutiques and hotels in Sweden´s capitol. Nordic Lounge Weekend is a discriminating selection of what we would have called “acid” or “future jazz” a… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:05, 15 Sep 2006Mind Over MIDI, Monopoly (Beatservice)
Monopoly is the fifth full-length for Norway´s Mind Over MIDI. However, since an individual is listed in the credits as having “compiled” the record, it would seem to be a collection of material of unmentioned original provenance, or perhaps a few older vinyl cuts mixed with new material. What… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:56, 15 Sep 2006Wang Fan, Five Primary Elements (KwanYin/Adopin)
Ever wonder what background music God chose to play in the Garden of Eden? I mean, once he set the lovers up in their cozy, safe surroundings and urged them to get on with the business of procreating, he must have supplied them with some mood music. This record is probably as close as we´ll ever… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:46, 15 Sep 2006
