From Sonomu:
Michael Fahres, The Tubes (Cold Blue Music)
Site-specific and universal at once. The work of Dutch composer Michael Fahres was unfamiliar to me before I received this album, though having studied under the masterful modernist Louis Andreissen boded well. And I came away having heard a voice that speaks many languages, most of them very… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:13, 21 Aug 2009Various Artists, Nekton Falls (3 CD Celestial Dragon/On_Lap Records/Mbira Records)
A sprawling, ambitious set inspired, of all things, by dead stuff rotting on the ocean floor. Nekton Falls sounds like a magical vacation destination, some cascading waterfall in the Yukon woods perhaps, but it is not a place name, it is a scientific statement about an ecological process -… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 09:23, 16 Aug 2009