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Album review: Field Works – ‘Cedars’: Stuart Hyatt fuses cosmic Americana and Arabic sounds; the results are luscious

  • March 1, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Cedars is quite a record - two records really; the first more orange and various other colours of the sun's framing of the beginning and the ending of the day, alive with a heartfelt yearning and cosmic sonic thrill. The second is far more verdant, deep green, homespun, and focuses in very much in on the wonder of the simple; the moments we all return to, perhaps, at least us rural dwellers. If you're at all conceptually familiar with the work of William Blake, his Songs Of Innocence And Experience, you'll see; the twining and correspondences. Climb into Cedars, join the two worlds for yourself; the album is long on thought and also on beauty.
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Album review: Neil Cowley – ‘Hall Of Mirrors’: A love letter to a city and an instrument

  • March 1, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
Neil Cowley has been on a journey away from, and returning to, the piano; Hall Of Mirrors is a striking love letter to the instrument, and also to his adopted city of Berlin. But all these conceptual asides fade away beneath the main thrust: it's a truly bloody great record. Buy.
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TRACK: Balmorhea – ‘The Myth’: Texan duo reveal a first track from their forthcoming album for Deutsche Grammophon

  • February 14, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
BALMORHEA, the Texan duo of Rob Lowe and Michael A. Muller, whose particular take on the modern compositional form nods to the American West, have signed to Deutsche Grammophon for…
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NEWS: Chihei Hatakeyama announces a beautiful new ambient album for Gearbox; hear ‘Sound Of Air’

  • February 14, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA is one of those sonic voyagers who have the muse whispering seemingly constantly. He’s one of those artists, like The Fall, Sun Ra, John Dwyer and the spiral…
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TRACK: Field Works – ‘Ḥalaqah ’Azaliyyah’: a beyond-pretty exploration of Americana and Arabic poetry

  • February 11, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
FIELD WORKS is less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse,…
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Album Review: The Superceded Sounds Of…The New Obsolescents

  • February 9, 2021
  • Adrian Barr
A brand new deep space travelogue from the collective minds of DJ Food and Howlround from an Improvised live session at the Museum Of London in 2016. This album began…
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SEE: Rachika Nayar – ‘Losing Too Is Still Ours’: a fiery, otherworldly study in processed guitar and voice

  • February 7, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
THE BROOKLYN-based ambient composer and audio-visual artist Rachika Nayar, who we’ve covered in these pages previously when we took a look at her previous single drop, “The Trembling Of Glass”,…
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SEE: Art & Spencer – ‘Caravan’: guitar soli steps into ambient atmospheres

  • January 31, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
ART & SPENCER is a newly forged collaboration between Juan Martínez Pérez, aka Elson Complex, a fingerstyle acoustic guitarist of Andalusian and Catalonian heritage who loves soundscapes with acres of…
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SEE: Nick Schofield – ‘Ambient Architect’: modular retro-futurism full of light and grace

  • January 27, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
NICK SCHOFIELD is a Montréalais composer in love with modular synths, and who has a new album, Glass Gallery, coming out early next month, composed entirely on the legendary Prophet…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Aaron Cupples – ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ original soundtrack: a sonic film in itself

  • January 25, 2021
  • Chris Sawle
There's always that caveat with a soundtrack that this is music in service to another artform. But Island Of The Hungry Ghosts is a sonic film in itself. It wholly lets the soul of the island through and onto your record deck. If you're a fan of labels like Touch, Kranky, this is so a record for you.
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