Spartak is project from Australia by jazz drummer/percussionist Evan Dorrian and multiinstrumentalist/electronic musician Shoeb Ahmad who's also director of small label HellosQuare Recordings on which the reviewed album No Signal was released. This record may attract attention most likely of the fans of jazz and free interesting improvisation...
Twice Worn is the first solo album by Adam Trainer released by Australian label HellosQuare Recordings in May 2009. Now, when outside it's 40 degrees Celsius, this album sounds accordingly to hot summer weather. Warm live sound, piano melody and field records on one scale pan balance with drone and rough, abrupt, abrasive electronic on the other...
My outlook about Greek electronic music gets wider. Earlier SP wrote about Mobthrow and A Wake A Week whose albums were released on Athenian Spectraliquid. Recently I got the debut work of another, unknown for me Greek project Eventless Plot. Music of this trio is a mixture of experimental ambient and various live instruments such as piano, clarinet, guitar, it all is skillfully filled with characteristic electronic microsounds...
Release of free full-value album Mercury by veterans of musical scene Somatic Responses turned to be unexpected and unpredicted. It was released on Irish net label Acroplane Recordings. Net release consists of 10 impressive compositions opening new horizons and deepness in team's creativity, darkness hid deep into tracks-paws catching and drawing listeners...
Like in previous album Trac(k)_t about which I wrote in 2007, Austrian Heribert Friedl keeps researching of some definite musical instrument in frame of one work. In Trac(k)_t he elicited sounds from Hackbrett so exotic nowadays, in the new album Recherche_00 he got down to vintage analogue synthesizer Yamaha CS-40m...
Despite Asmus Tietchens's creative work seems to me very interesting, I was always seriously afraid of his music. It doesn't mean I hide under bed listening for example to the series of -Menge releases. The thing is that sometimes this German musician's experiments get really terrible and you even wonder how he manages to produce such powerful effect...
...If you don't get rid of outside sounds it can be so that you just don't hear the music. That is the peculiarity of Chartier – work on the merge of audibility, very often it seems that he rules not sound but silence with the help of sounds, he modifies and transforms natural silence, paints it with different colors and makes different forms...
Recently I've been looking though one of blogs dedicated to ambient and I saw a beautiful picture with big figures 3 and 6. It was a coincidence that 36 is my favorite number, don't know why, I just always liked it, that is why I couldn't pass through release with such cover and visited the site of label 3six Recordings...
Common work of the famous Spanish audiodesigner Francisco López and Andrey Kiritchenko under laconic title Mavje appeared on Nexsound several years ago. This record is interesting not only for fans of absolute concrete music but also for everybody who wants to look into the depth of self inner world, to research new territories and feel new opportunities...
No labels, no distribution, no information about the project even no tracks' titles. All I know about Sturqen is that in project's team there are two people, they are from Portugal. CDr in transparent plastic envelope is the release made without outside help, can be ordered from these musicians. Well, such disputable approach to distribution of their music...