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ALBUM REVIEW: Dmitry Evgrafov – ‘Surrender’: fashioning post-classical into new shapes

FATCAT’S boutique 130701 imprint is neck and neck with Erased Tapes as the stable of the sometimes rarified, always immensely listenable world of modern- and post-classical; especially the piano-based end…

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Album Review: Jon Hassell – Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume 2)

When Brian Eno has touted you as ‘the most influential composer of the last 50 years’, when you’re credited as raising cultural awareness with your ground- breaking Fourth World Music,…

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ALBUM REVIEW: William Tyler – ‘Music From First Cow’: chiming soundtrackery from Tennessee gent

IT SHOULDN’T really come as a surprise to anyone who has followed William Tyler’s solo career, or heard him give the background to any of his seductive, chiming guitar odysseys, that…

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Album Review: Even As We Speak – Adelphi

There is a fragile and elegant beauty in Even As We Speak‘s new album ‘Adelphi’ that leaves the listener swooning with bliss. The entire architecture of the album is built…

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EP REVIEW: Devendra Banhart – ‘Vast Ovoid’: bursting with ideas

DEVENDRA BANHART was one of the main beneficiaries of the American acid-folk explosion just after the turn of the century. He came in as part of that movement with bands…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Nest Egg – Dislocation

Nest Egg were formed in 2011 and hail from Asheville, North Carolina. The band have honed their sound on the live circuit and new LP Dislocation to be released on…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Gunther Wüsthoff – ‘[to|dig]ital’: deep tronica from the Faust man’s vault

BUREAU B is one of those beautifully interesting labels – nein, curators – out there on the fringes, lovingly delving in the depths of the crates, remastering and compiling, making…

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Album Review: Lianne La Havas – Lianne La Havas

Lianne La Havas makes her triumphant return from a semi-unintentional five year hiatus with her third self-titled album, released 17th July on Warner Records/Nonesuch. She first broke into our consciousness…

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Droppin’ Knowledge: On His New Album, L.A. Salami Wrestles With Doubt But Embraces Faith: An Interview & Review

British artist L.A. Salami is a guitar-slinging troubadour, a man for whom words are the primary currency of his trade. The words spill out of him, a cascade of words…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Laraaji – ‘Sun Piano’: solo piano from Eno’s stable

LARAAJI, the ambient musician, laughter therapist and even one-time stand-up born Edward Larry Gordon – who has even rubbed celluloid shoulders with Antonio Fargas, aka ‘Huggy Bear’, from Starsky and…

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