Headless Men and Yeti Attacks
Simon Wickham-Smith A Hidden Life And Other Works BELGIUM TANUKI RECORDS #13 CD (2016) Back in the late eighties, my discovery of Simon Wickham-Smith was certainly a weirdly circuitous one. The trail...
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Scripture Union
We last heard from Professor John Harvey at the University of Aberystwyth in 2015, with his excellent work RRBVEETNSOA, an electro-acoustic composition that made use of an old wax cylinder recording of...
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Phurpa Rituals Of Bön I POLAND ZOHARUM ZOHAR 126-1 12” (2016) Led by Alexei Tegin, Phurpa are a group of Russian musicians/scholars whose first album arrived on the Invisible Hand imprint in 2007 and...
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Unusual and touching album of songs and spoken word from Bipolar Explorer, a band in NYC calling themselves a “dreampop trio”…Til Morning Is Nigh: A Dream Of Christmas (SLUGG RECORDS) offers their...
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You wait years for an album of obscure early Christmas Carols reinterpreted in an avant-garde context, and then two come along at once…well, almost. We recently noted the unusual record by Bipolar...
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To The Power of Three
The Empty Mirror Christian Meaas Svendsen with Nakama New Rituals NORWAY NAKAMA RECORDS NKM016 3 x CD (2019) Norwegian bass player Christian Meaas Svendsen is highly regarded in these pages, whether...
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Another excellent and unique piece of sound art, rich in content and meaning, from John Harvey at the University of Aberystwyth. The Biblical Record (NATIONAL SCREEN AND SOUND ARCHIVE OF WALES...
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Hervé Perez has joined up with Alexandru Hegvesi to produce Garden Of Secrets (DISCUS MUSIC DISCUS 97CD), a new release on Discus Music. Hervé Perez has often played with Martin Archer (label boss of...
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Latest release from Tibetan Red shows our man teaming up with Tomaso Corbetta to produce Transition (ANTAHKARANA RECORDS), a three-part work of gentle and mysterious sounds. Tibetan Red (i.e. Salvador...
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Unusual album is Pozgarria Da (BELARRI KD-2021-02), a musical setting for the Basque poems of Father Bitoriano Gandiaga…it was composed by Petar Klanac, a Canadian composer born in Montreal who studied...
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