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Album Review: Brin & Dustin Wong – Texture II : An intense connection of micro-beats and shifting loops with a free jazz spirit.

Imagining the outcome of this collaboration is in many ways a bit of a stretch. First there is guitarist Dustin Wong, in the past a key member of the under-valued…

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Album Review: MAREENA & JAKOJAKO – ATLAS DER GEDANKEN (Edition DUR 13)

Mareena is a DJ and runs her own ambient label Unrush, and JakoJako, also a DJ, recently released an EP on Mute. Two years ago, they made a joint album “Atlas…

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EP Review: Matilda Bond – Home For 24 Hours

A beautiful blend of jazz tendencies, soulful-pop melodies and an indie-post-punk freshness, Matilda Bond’s new EP ‘Home For 24 Hours’ is truly fascinating. From the off with ‘Charm’, the EP…

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Album Review: Oiro Pena – ‘Puna’ : An intense and essential take on spiritual jazz-tones.

You have to be paying close attention to pick up on the whispers and murmurings from the dynamic Finnish underground scene but when you catch the signals it’s usually something…

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Symbol Soup release dreamy, lush and poetic new album: ‘Slow Puncture’.

Symbol Soup is the indie-folk project of musician Michael Rea, and their new record: Slow Puncture is an album that can be linked to a lot of buzzwords that are…

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EP Review: ‘Get Back To Me When It’s Over’ – Blanco Tranco inject a shimmering jingle jangle warmth into the universe with their new EP.

It may well be the depths of winter in the southern hemisphere, but Melbourne band Blanco Tranco are paying no heed to the clouds and gale force winds blowing over…

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Album Review: Berlin Strings – On a dark night (Edition DUR 12)

Edwards Berlin Strings is a classically trained chamber ensemble specializing in collaborations with pop and indie musicians, as well as cinematic compositions. The quartet consists of Lisa Marie Vogel (violin), Johanna…

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Album Review: Yelka – 1976

Berlin’s most productive band – no less than 10 albums in three years is their mission – Yelka announces its second album release in the current season. We are talking…

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Album Review: Jim Wallis – In Huge Gesturing Loops: moving ‘ambient country’ way beyond passive mood music.

Drumming and making ambient soundscapes is not a well populated intersection on the musician directory Venn diagram but Jim Wallis sits comfortably within that quirky enclave. Perhaps best known for…

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EP Review: T.G. Shand’s ‘Cinnamon’ is a shimmering kaleidoscope of sound that leaves an indelible impression.

Recently New Zealand resident musician and songwriter Annemarie Duff published a detailed Spotify List celebrating the plethora of extraordinarily brilliant antipodean female-fronted dream pop/shoegaze artists currently releasing music at the…

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