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Colin Andrew Sheffield – Signatures
By Al ? December 10, 2008
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Seattle’s Colin Andrew Sheffield has been quietly destroying sound since the late 1990’s. Beginning with 1998’s side one/side two, on his own Elevator Bath imprint – also home to recordings from Adam Pacione and Rick Reed, among others – he’s been utilizing man-made and “found” sounds in a continually sweeping effort to restructure what […]

Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler – Navigation Im Hypertext/Kölner Kranz
By Ed Howard ? December 10, 2008
A-Musik A31/A34
German synthesizer musicians Thomas Lehn and Marcus Schmickler have been playing together for quite some time now, long enough that one might expect their interaction to have grown a bit stale. They first turned heads (and scrambled brains) with their Erstwhile duo disc, BART, an unforgettable washing-machine roar of an album, then stretched and […]

Fennesz – Black Sea
By Paul Baran ? December 9, 2008
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The ancient forebears of the Georgians and Greeks did not know what to make of the Black Sea. The geographer Strabo once referred to it as the “Hospitable” sea, while the poet, Pindar, pronounced it as “inhospitable”. Its long coastal expanse has been visited by the effects of war and revolution, and has inspired […]

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