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Album Review: Andert Tysma – ‘Parallels’: An inspired, restorative walk across the classical/electronic intersection.

Dutch composer/ producer Andert Tysma’s uniquely crafted blend of post-classical, electro-acoustic and electronic music has always seemed fascinated with how and who we are. His soundscapes come peopled with stories…

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Album Review: Memory Noise – Time is a Dimension

Memory Noise is the electronic project of Fabio Servolo, a musician based in Italy. Hismusic explores mood, texture, and the passage of time, creating soundscapes that blurthe lines between memory…

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Album Review: Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth- ‘Allison de Groot & Rich Ruth’: bringing something singular to the ambient country soundscape.

Michael Ruth aka Rich Ruth has been at the hub of Nashville’s more experimental fringe for a while now. You may have caught him live as part of Spencer Cullum’s…

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Album Review: boycalledcrow – ‘the sprawl’: restless folktronica which goes darker and deeper.

Time to rummage once more in former folk-singer Carl M. Knott’s curious world of sound. As boycalledcrow his latest intriguing collection ‘the sprawl’ sees him working wonders from a trove…

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Album Review: fling ii – ‘3’: Expertly guiding Krautrock towards other possibilities.

Following Rich Aucoin and Kristen Roos, Toronto curators We Are Busy Bodies cornucopia of recorded sound bubbles over once more into the joys of synth music with fling ii. The…

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Album Review: Lawrence English – ‘The Rest Is My Ghost’: An enthralling ambient discussion from a composer who continues to push onwards.

The eminent ambient musician Lawrence English’s Bandcamp bio tags him as “a philosopher of listening”. It’s a description that captures the relationship between his intricate soundscapes and applied thinking. English…

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Album Review: Jad Atoui – ‘It Will Take Forever’: A challenging merger of electronics, noise and ambience from the Lebanese sound sculptor.

Beirut -based audio-artist Jad Atoui’s ‘It Will Take Forever’ takes you on a journey into the depths of sound. Experimental electronic music with the listener key to the experiment, it’s…

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Album Review: Jeff Mills – The Trip To Vega

The Trip To Vega is about deep outer space odyssey that occurs in the process of traveling from Earth through the Cosmos to another “favorable” star system 25.3 light-years away.…

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Album Review: AMAS X Frithjof -Martin Grabner – SRDGN X LPZG

What happens when the mathematical rigor of Johann Sebastian Bach is stripped of its classical facade? With the album SRDNG x LPZG, the duo AMAS, together with double bassist Frithjof…

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Live Review plus Gallery: All India Radio live broadcast their ethereal majesty, supported by Dvrkworld and Dededed, Altar Bar, Hobart, 14 May 2026

All may be dark and cold in the southern outpost of Australia, but in their first hometown gig in Hobart, All India Radio emanated a warm starburst of magic into…

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