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John Hudak, On and On (Presto!?)
You know how they say “you could hear a pin drop”? On and On is the sound of that pin dropping over and over and over again over seventy pristine minutes. The pin-drops are guitar strings; Hudak´s “sound” for this particular effort was been borrowed from the song of the black-capped chickadee,… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:58, 23 Apr 2009

Anzio Green, Autumn Honey (Symbolic Interaction)
A highly polished gem, a brief and very tasteful introduction to a duo consisting of Mark Streatfield and Wil Bolton, both of whom run their own avant-electronica labels. The music on compact disc is embraced by a glossy gatefold photograph which could just as easily be mistaken for an early… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 07:18, 20 Apr 2009

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Chris Herbert, Diluted (CDR Low Point)
I am in no way well versed in the genre of field recording, but I have heard my share. The most famous name that comes to mind is Chris Herbert´s countryman Chris Watson; then there is Dallas Simpson, also from the UK, whose unadorned field recordings came as refreshing countryside walks on a… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:29, 05 Feb 2009

Matthew Florianz, Maalbeek (H/S Recordings)
I would choose to classify the music of Matthew Florianz as ambient traditionalist or rather, “originalist”, in the sense that he maintains an unsettling, sombre tone throughout his work, restricts his palette, and like Brian Eno and Harold Budd before him, creates atmospheres and “landscapes”… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:21, 05 Feb 2009

Cisfinitum, Tactio (Mechanoise Labs)
Wherein the very acoustics of the cathedral of St. Petri in Bremen are as important as the instruments being played. Evgeny Voronovski has been purveying dark ambient for more than a decade now under the nom-de-musique Cisfinitum. He may well be the only ambient artist with a nationalist intent… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:16, 05 Feb 2009

Lepenik, Grete vor dem Haus (CDR Chmafu Nocords)
This compact disc nestles cozily on a square of dark blue cloth in a little cardboard box together with a couple of non-descript black and white photos, like a family heirloom forgotten in some drawer. (Robert) Lepenik plays his piano excruciatingly slow, the notes ocassionally tweaked and… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:30, 02 Feb 2009

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Sleep Research Facility, Deep Frieze (Cold Spring)
This is the ambient music that ambient music puts on the stereo when it wants to unwind and get reaquainted with its roots. Toronto´s Sleep Research Facility perversely approach the “comfort of encroaching hypothermia” with this sweeping, textbook example of true soundscaping craftsmanship. The… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 08:20, 17 Nov 2008

Jeremy Bible & Jason Henry, Vryashn (CDR Gears of Sand)
The present reviewer must confess to having no idea of this duo´s track record, but artistically at least it looks like a case of the old ketchup-effect: nothing, nothing for a long time and then suddenly, splat! Five releases on three different labels, including their own, in a matter of a few… [read]
Posted by Stephen Fruitman at 06:45, 05 Nov 2008

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