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Premiere: We exclusively unveil the new video for Karen Vogt’s (Heligoland) track ‘Spirit’, off the shimmering album ‘Haunted Woodland Volume 5’.
Earlier this month I reviewed the new solo album from Paris-based Australian artist Karen Vogt, part of the much vaunted band Heligoland. Today we are proud to premiere the video for the track ‘Spirit’ off the album. The track has a spiritual, dreamy tone as Vogt’s yearning vocals enter above echoed, delayed crisp guitars – …
Album Review: Cole Pulice – ‘Land’s End Eternal’ : An electro-acoustic touchstone moment from the ambient saxophonist and composer.
Saxophonist/composer Cole Pulice often draws on metaphors to describe their alluring electro-acoustic music. For the 2021 solo debut ‘Gloam’ they suggested the music mirrored shifting patterns of a twisting kaleidoscope whereas the follow up ‘Scry’ was closer to gazing at a stained-glass crystal ball from different angles. You wonder what poetic phrases Pulice might be …
Album Review: Heligoland’s Karen Vogt releases the shimmering, ambient solo album ‘Haunted Woodland, Volume 5’.
Australian-born Karen Vogt plays in the Melbourne dream pop shoegaze band Heligoland – who a few years back toured Europe and forgot to return home, ending up based in Paris. And while Heligoland have been relatively quite (although there is movement on the horizon), Vogt has continued to explore the world of atmospheric, ambient dreamy …
Premiere: Tune in to the exquisite All India Radio with the video for their exquisite Slowdive cover ‘Catch The Breeze’, ahead of album release.
Reports of the demise of All India Radio have clearly been exaggerated with the various hints coming from All India Radio’s main presenter Martin Kennedy that fresh work was on the way, and today we are honoured to turn the dial to the video for the first single, ‘Catch The Breeze’, off the forthcoming album …
Premiere: Irish composer and songwriter Lōwli unveils the ethereal and haunting track ‘Ground Above You’ ahead of debut album
Lōwli is the nom de plume for Irish composer and songwriter Roisin Lowry and we are honoured to bring you a first listen to her new single ‘Ground Above You’, released through Veta Records. The track opens up with a raw insistent piano: so evocative and enigmatic you can hear the very mechanics of the …
Album Review: Cam Butler (Ron S Peno and the Superstitions) releases new solo album, the ethereal ‘Spirits Flying Home’, ahead of launch gig.
Cam Butler is a multi instrumentalist and producer who was also the co-writer of songs with the late and legendary Ron S Peno (Died Pretty) in the fabulous Ron S Peno and the Superstitions which he co-founded. Their album ‘Do The Understanding’ was one of my albums of the year in 2023. In addition, Butler is also a rather …
Album Review: Yann Tiersen – Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour; a immersive two part journey from solo expressive piano to urgent electronics
On Ninnog – out now via Mute Records, Yann Tiersen delivers an ambitious and deeply personal double album that journeys from delicate, introspective piano meditations to full-bodied electronic eruptions. Split into two distinct halves—Rathlin from a Distance and The Liquid Hour—the record captures both the serenity and turbulence of a life shaped by the sea, …
Track: Cole Pulice – “Fragments of a Slipstream Dream”; shimmering ambient jazz palette
Cole Pulice’s latest single, “Fragments of a Slipstream Dream,” feels like standing at the edge of a new world, watching the air shimmer just before you step through. As the opening track of the forthcoming Land’s End Eternal, it gently signals a shift in Pulice’s sonic universe, bridging the celestial ambient jazz of their previous …
Premiere: An atmospheric ambient/modern classical collaboration between Joachim Spieth and Andrew Thomas is launched with the shimmering single ‘Shine’
Joachim Spieth and Andrew Thomas are titans in the ambient/modern classical music scene and we are proud to premiere the single ‘Shine’ from their forthcoming collaboration ‘Nocturna’ on the German Affin label. Spieth is a German composer, DJ and producer, founder of the Affin label while Thomas is a New Zealand artist who has worked …
Album Review: T. Gowdy – ‘Trill Scan’: Inspired Early music and darkwave alchemy.
It was a question of time before Canadian producer/audio-visual artist T.Gowdy’s background filtered through to his engrossing electronic music and that time is now. Gowdy’s new album ‘Trill Scan’, his third for Constellation, with its ethereal vocal harmonics and sinuous acoustic instrumentation makes careful sonic connections with college years spent as a professional choral singer …