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ALBUM REVIEW: Less Bells – ‘Mourning Jewelry’: absolutely affecting drone-post classical forged in loss

JULIE CARPENTER, who records for Texas’ home of boundary-pushing out-rock and drone beauty Kranky, has journeyed from musical academia at the University of North Texas, through session work as a…

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ALBUM REVIEWS: Andrew Elaban – ‘Variegated Tributary’/Claire Rousay – ‘Tuufuhhoowaah’: by turns, handsomely dronesome and fiercely plunderphonic

WHITED SEPULCHRE is one of those loving little curators of out-musics that play nuanced and important roles in our lives: their guiding light is that these creations are out there,…

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Track: Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith – Knowledge Of The Self

With their new album Peradam due for release on September 4th, 2020 via Bella Union, Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith have shared new track “Knowledge Of The Self” and an accompanying video that features editing and a…

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SEE: Less Bells – ‘The Fang’: fashioning beauty from grief for Kranky

YOU may well have heard Julie Carpenter, if you have not yet heard of her. A graduate of the University of North Texas, multi-instrumentalist and composer Julie has been called…

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TRACK: Mary Lattimore – ‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams’: ethereal delicacy with Slowdive’s Neil

IT’S a collaboration to make any lover of ethereal soundscapery’s mouth water. Last heard of, solo, with her luscious Hundreds of Days set back in 2018, Los Angeleno harpist Mary…

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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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ALBUM REVIEW: Bing & Ruth – ‘Species’ – majestic and meditative

SOMETIMES the cliches can ring true. It’s a marriage made in heaven. Take 4AD, Ivo Watts-Russell beautiful stable, which has given us such moments as … well, Victorialand. Need we…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Eternell – ‘Imagined Distances’: fine, glimmering ambient drone

SOUND IN SILENCE is a label concerned with the liminal and ambient fringes of music. Operating out of Athens for nigh on a decade and a half, it can boast…

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Track: Erland Cooper – A Nightingale Sings Outside Our Window

To highlight Mental Health week; BBC Radio 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins invited composer and multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper to write a piece of music that highlights how music and sound can…

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TRACK: bathe in the sun of PELA’s ‘South Of’

OFF THE back of their debut single, “You Got Me” last month, South London’s PELA have shared their second outing, “South Of”. It’s a beguiling, dazed bliss of a track,…

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