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See: Dialect – ‘Flame Not Stone’: humanist, wayward and open ambient experimenta

WE’VE covered Dialect before in recent weeks, this outfit being the wholly otherly, seductive, beguiling, blissful and unusual project of Liverpool’s Andrew PM Hunt. That was a month or so…

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Track: John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Greg Coates, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins share ‘No Flutter/Goose’; more loose, free impro from the Osees nexus

WE NEED not look any further here at just how productive John Dwyer and the whole O Sees nexus is – suffice to say, wow; and just weeks on from…

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Track: Lisel + Booker Stardrum – ‘In The Dome’: fractured, space-age experimental pop

ELIZA BEGG, the vocalist and composer who guises as Lisel musically, and electronica creator and percussionist Booker Stardrum, have been friends a long time, circulating in each other’s musical orbit.…

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SEE: Toulouse post-rockers BRUIT ≤ announce April album; see the video for ‘Renaissance’

ITS MEMBERS having been through the major label wringer, Toulousain post-rock outfit BRUIT ≤ had no desire to make the same mistakes again; and its members decided to strip back…

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See: the video for Masayoshi Fujita’s ‘Thunder’; a flow of sonic delight for electronica and marimba on Erased Tapes

IF YOU like your music deliciously abstract, abstractedly delicious; arranged beautifully, an absolute world of evocative sound; fell hard, for instance, for the albums Ryuichi Sakamoto made with Alva Noto,…

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Track: Ueda Takasayu – ‘Every Clouds Calls My Name’: Phantom Limb debutante’s impressionistic, psychotropic odyssey

BORN in Hiroshima and raised partly in Germany and Austria, debuting Phantom Limb artist Ueda Takayasu says he spent his childhood feeling stateless, distant from his own cultural identity and curiously “un-Japanese”.…

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See: Conrad Clipper – ‘Heron’s Book Of Dreams’: piano pastoralism from Berlin composer hiding in pseudonymity

CONRAD CLIPPER is the pseudonymous venture of a Berlin composer and multi-instrumentalist who has a focus on prepared, programmed and played piano. He’s lauded over at BBC Radio 3’s Late…

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Premiere: Christine Ott – ‘Landscape’: haunting modern compositional pastoralism

THE FRENCH composer and multi-instrumentalist Christine Ott can never be accused of running with the pack in her compositional aesthetic; down the years since her first release, Solitude Nomade, in…

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See: The video for Matt Emery’s ‘Anxiety Mist’: a samurai waiting for battle as told by solo cello

BRITISH composer Matt Emery, who calls the lovely Injazero Records home, has launched a series of recordings focusing on one instrument at a time; and for his first EP in…

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News: Secrets of Elements announces April album; hear the grand electronic sweep of ‘Cassini’

THE GERMAN composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Johann Pätzold, who records as Secret of Elements, has announced the release of his first album since 2011’s Minds. It’s to be entitled Chronos, and it’ll be…

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