tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59125801615372804572012-02-06T21:02:53.769-08:00Think Rebel Think FreedomSarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.comBlogger1921100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-28378003617753063082011-10-15T16:59:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:02.304-08:00

Label: ShitkatapultReleased: 2011Style: Techno, Downtempo, Experimental"His new album for Shitkatapult is completely dedicated to the flow. Seven tracks, which have been recorded and arranged live at the studio. Seven tracks with an enormous depth and passion and love for detail on a straight beat, manifesting their own version of club music. Basically, Komet is a techno record, but it has been

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Label: Trunk DigitalReleased: 2011Style: Easy Listening"One of the earliest underwater music experiments, and bloody marvelous it is too, by the first composer I really fell in love with (but not in a sexual way)." - LabelTracklisting:1 Sunken City 2 Stars In The Sand 3 Sea Nymph 4 Singing Sea Shells 5 Dolphin 6 Dawn Under The Sea 7 The Enchanted Sea 8 Girl From Nassau 9 The Ancient

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Label: MiasmahReleased: 2010Style: Experimental, Neofolk"For his Miasmah debut, FNS treats us to a spectacular excursion into the world of psych-folk instrumentals, with a collection of semi-improvised multi-layered pieces, primarily for acoustic and electric guitar and voice. These lo-fi home recordings capture a sense of astral travel, though explorations into drone, raga-styled melodies and

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Label: Room40Released: 2009Style: Experimental, Ambient"A stunning set of micro-acoustic experiments from Asher Thal-Nir, an artist perhaps most notable for his recent release on the and/OAR label and a 2005 release for the 12k offshoot, term. This album sets out to capture the particular characteristics of rooms and spaces - something prompted by Asher's attempt to capture the kind of subtle,

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Label: Ghost BoxReleased: 2008Style: Experimental, Electronic, Library Music"The Advisory Circle bring us more timely advice on issues such as domestic isolation, tranquilliser addiction and the nuclear threat. Sumptuous booklet art by Julian House and beautifully evocative liner notes by Ken Hollings complement what we feel to be the strongest Ghost Box release so far.Light synthesizer melodies

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Label: Raster-NotonReleased: 2007Style: Abstract, Electronic"is there beauty in the threatening? with list senking introduces 40 minutes of the darkest matter and reckons: yes.on list he varies and experiments with a - for raster-noton - frightening diversity of sounds. he reveals the pieces as sound-collages, as quotes, which seem to refer to splatter movie and film noir. following the

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Label: Rune GrammofonReleased: 2010Style: Post Rock, Free Improvisation'”Half Nelson Courtship” is the third album and the first on Rune Grammofon from this young trio who musically started out as the younger cousins of Supersilent. The new album shows a group with a stronger identity, clearer focus, more mature and fully developed musical ideas and directions. It´s actually not so easy to

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Label: VHF RecordsReleased: 2003Style: Abstract, Experimental, Psychedelic"Bi-annual collection of pillow sound from Bower & Co. Fairly mellow and spacey, ala the "Embroidered Birdsong Nearly Meadows" disc from 2001's Bliss dbl CD. Layers of twinkling keyboard, guitar, unidentified fuzz, short wave, etc. Very much in the style of Harmonia/Cluster in spots. There's a couple of amped-up moments

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Label: Important RecordsReleased: 2007Style: Experimental"Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Allesandro Stefana. Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot & Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly

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Label: VHF RecordsReleased: 2008Style: Folk Rock, Drone, Experimental"Faint at the Loudest Hour is the astonishing solo debut by guitarist Alexander Turnquist, part of a young generation of guitar players who have taken their incredible virtuosity and turned it into something actually worth listening to. Like James Blackshaw, Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, etc, this could roughly be described as "raga"

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Label: Mille PlateauxReleased: 2001Style: Experimental, Minimal"Dan Abrams is probably better known to most of us as Shuttle 358 or more recently Fenton. This album was his first and only record under his own name and his first for the Mille Plateaux label. Although not hugely different from his work under the Shuttle 358 moniker, it certainly has enough to separate the projects like this. ‘

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Label: TouchReleased: 2001Style: Abstract, Experimental, Drone"More oceanic 'calm of acceptance' than 'violence of discovery', these ten Ambient meditations on treated electric guitar, gathered from the last seven years, are like a series of exquisitely poised and iridescent ragas. Hailing from Portugal, Toral's work has been compared to that of Robert Fripp in its exploration of the melodic

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Label: Important RecordsReleased: 2009Style: Jazz, Rock, Western"This band is tight but they are comfortable enough in each other’s playing to not sound formulaic or over-rehearsed. The music flows in a way that brings to mind the rougher side of surf music, leaving The Beach Boys out in the sun while unkempt youths play their guitars in the shade. The guitar playing of Dick Dale ghosts through

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Label: Blast FirstReleased: 2001Style: Abstract, Minimal, Ambient"Probably my favourite of all the Pan Sonic albums, this showed a slight departure from their previous efforts. Instead of focussing mainly on distorted technoid beats and extreme sounds, Altopiiri interspersed the hypnotic analogue techno mainstays with gorgeous atmospheric compositions reflecting influences from early electronic

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Label: Kosmische KuriereReleased: 1973Style: Krautrock, Prog Rock"This massive double album is cosmic Krautrock at its finest hour, as visionary Walter Wegmuller leads a tour through the entire major arcane of the Tarot deck while the Cosmic Couriers -- basically Ash Ra Tempel, Wallenstein, and whoever else producer Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser could rope in -- create a remarkable soundtrack encompassing

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Label: ECM RecordsReleased: 2009Style: Jazz, Ambient"...Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street is Hassell's first recording since 2005's Maarifa Street: Magic Realism, Vol. 2; it's an assembled montage of sessions recorded in France and Los Angeles, and concerts are also woven into the rich fabric here. Hassell's music, even now, sounds alien, beguiling, mercurial, seemingly

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Label: Rune GrammofonReleased: 2006Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient"True story, as told by Per Henrik Svalastog himself: “I found an old Norwegian zither laying around my grandfather´s barn in the mountains. It appeared that he had been a fiddler before he lost all his fingers at the sawmill and convertet to become a hardcore pietist setting down a prohibition against music, dancing,

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Label: Modern LoveReleased: 2008Style: Techno, House, IDM, Tech House, Electro, Dub Techno, Minimal"Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator. His first release, ‘Replace’

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Label: Die SchachtelReleased: 2008Style: Drone, Minimal, Ambient"Radioland is Stephan Mathieu's long awaited 5th full length studio work, following his acclaimed The Sad Mac CD from 2004. Exclusively based on real-time processed shortwave radio signals, Radioland takes the listener on a carpet ride across endless, majestic shimmering landscapes. Radioland is a mesmerizing reflection on the bubble

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Label: Rune GrammofonReleased: 2006Style: Experimental, Ambient"This is a rather beautifully packaged re-issue of Espen Sommer Eide's debut album, originally released in a limited run on Biosphere's 'Biophon' imprint in 1998. I must say although I am familiar with most of the Norwegian artist's output I have never come across this album before, and it is a pleasure to explore the murky depths now

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Label: ECM RecordsReleased: 1991Style: Modern Classical, Minimal"After the Requiem continued Gavin Bryars' journey away from the more experimental work that made his reputation early in his career toward pieces possessing a more melancholic and romantic quality. In two of the works herein, "The Old Tower of Lobenicht" and "Allegrasco," one can hear echoes of his brilliant composing on the

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Label: Biophon RecordsReleased: 2001Style: Techno, Ambient"Only the second release so far on Biosphere's Biophon label. Tom Opdahl of Bergen - a picturesque town nestled among seven hills on the west coast of Norway, where it always, always rains - is a hitherto unheard name among the plethora of excellent ambient and electronica coming out of that country. But his debut 'Black Smoker' should

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Label: Type RecordsReleased: 2006Style: Post-Rock"Based in Stockholm, Sweden; Sickoakes are a six piece instrumental rock band and Seawards is their long awaited debut release. Since the release of an early recording of ‘Wedding Rings & Bullets in the Same Golden Shrine’ on the Pleasedosomething net-label some years ago there has been a bubbling interest in their next move, so it is an absolute

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Label: ECM RecordsReleased: 2010Style: Jazz"Food has defined a new kind of lyrical electro-acoustic improvisation in the course of its twelve year existence. Founded as a quartet in 1998, since 2006 the group has been a core duo of UK saxophonist Iain Ballamy and Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen joined by guests for diverse projects. At the Molde Jazz Festival and the Oslo Blå club in 2007/8

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Label: Type RecordsReleased: 2005Style: Modern Classical"Residing in Cambridge, UK Ryan Teague has grown up with classical music. Learning classical guitar from an early age, and also becoming proficient in clarinet and a number of other obscure instruments, it was not long before Teague tried his hand at composing. However the trappings of standard classical composition were not of any interest

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Label: Modern LoveReleased: 2009Style: Techno, Dub Techno"Since their 2003 debut ‘Trouble At Mill’, Pendle Coven have produced seven exceptional, restless twelves for the Modern Love label, not including work undertaken by one half of the recording duo under the MLZ moniker and a handful of projects produced and delivered under the radar. Typified by an inability to rest on their laurels, Pendle

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Label: Rune GrammofonReleased: 2002Style: Glitch, Dub Techno, Minimal, Ambient"Third and easily the best album from these veterans of arctic ambient electronica. A beautiful and razorsharp production with plenty of depth and detail, this is an album that should most definitely appeal to Biosphere fans. Information is Per Henrik Svalastog and Jørgen Knudsen." - LabelTracklisting:1 Plot Ratio (

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Label: ApolloReleased: 1998Style: Abstract, Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient"Fifth and best album of elegant electronica from the ex-Seefeel man.From the breathy and mysterious opener Real Love to the marathon finale Love Is All, Playing With Time displays an impressive range of instrumentation and clever application of technology. Its 10 tracks draw on techno, trance and ambient influences

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Label: Rune GrammofonReleased: 2004Style: Future Jazz, Experimental, Ambient"To get straight to the point, "Chiarsocuro" is probably the most startling and moving album I've heard this year. Arve Henriksen is a founding member of freestyle jazz experimentalists Supersilent, his inimitable trumpet playing and indescribable wordless vocalising has gained him a feverishly dedicated following,

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Label: Darla RecordsReleased: 2007Style: Ambient, Instrumental"A companion piece to 'Before the Day Breaks', 'After the Night Falls' is a gorgeous soundtrack to the twilight hours by two of the most gifted producers of blissed-out music the world has ever known. The last we had heard from Harold Budd was that "Avalon Sutra" was going to be his final album and that he was ready for retirement, but

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Label: Darla RecordsReleased: 2007Style: Ambient, Instrumental"To say we've been eagerly waiting for this pair of albums would be a serious understatement...These are two artists that should really need no introduction - Harold Budd, the legendary pianist who defined a whole genre with his peerless piano-led soundscaping and Robin Guthrie, the guitarist who as part of the Cocteau Twins introduced

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Label: Important RecordsReleased: 2009Style: Psychedelic Rock"Mixing equal parts Can and Stereolab (who, of course, took more than a bit from Can themselves) with a grooving and cruise-worthy psychedelicism propagated by the likes of Funkadelic, Cave manage to sound at once immediately familiar and entirely original, a trait uncommon in today's increasingly oversaturated music landscape. Where

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Label: MiasmahReleased: 2006Style: Modern Classical"Hearing the expertly constructed and deeply sensitive post-classical pieces featured on ‘Slumber Tides’ it is difficult to comprehend that the musician is only a mere 18 years of age. Harking from the boredom filled lands of Greater Surrey in England, Haines quickly tired of school life and found himself immersed in music, and in a move

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Label: A Made Up SoundReleased: 2009Style: Techno, Dubstep"Dave Huismans aka 2562 unloads the second release for his A Made Up Sound imprint. Compared to the outright Detroit ebullience of AMS 001, this plate acts as an outlet for his more esoteric leanings, constructing three tracks that don't feel like immediate 'floor hits, but burn with a more cosmic and atmospheric abstraction while still

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Label: Digitalis RecordingsReleased: 2008Style: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental"Steve Gunn is probably best known as a key component to the mighty GHQ with Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards) and Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), but his solo efforts have been even more impressive. With a couple limited & hard-to-find CDRs under his belt and a few offerings under the moniker Moongang, Gunn is

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Label: Digitalis RecordingsReleased: 2009Style: Drone, Experimental, Ambient"Gordon Ashworth is Concern and this is his manifesto. "Truth & Distance" is a mini-epic, a minor masterpiece. Within these sonic walls lies a stunning landscape, adrift in golden tones and silver siren songs. Ashworth creates beautiful, shimmering music that defies categorization. It stands on its own, droning away into

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Label: Ipecac RecordingsReleased: 2008Style: Jazz, Ambient"Everything, as David Lynch would say, is never quite what it seems. Bohren and Der Club of Gore are a real connoisseurs band, their intense blend of heaving doom reductions and late night Badalemanti style midnight jazz has bought them a fanatical following in both the Avant-Metal and Jazz communities. Their sound really can be best

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Label: KrankyReleased: 2004Style: Drone, Minimal, Ambient"Recorded by the band in Olympia, WA from 2003 to early 2004 and mixed with Rex Ritter (Jessamine, Fontanelle and SUNN) at Magnetic Park in Portland, OR in March and April 2004, The Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light takes Growing's expansive palette, blurring and disguising instrumental points of origin to a point where sheer

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Label: Modern LoveReleased: 2009Style: Dub, Experimental, Minimal, Ambient"Demdike Stare is a long-in-the-making hookup between two shady characters operating at the fringes of Manchester’s fragmented music scene: Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty. Miles has been a longtime affiliate of Modern Love as one half of Pendle Coven and under his own MLZ alias, while Canty is one of the city’s most

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Label: Students Of DecayReleased: 2009Style: Acoustic, Drone, Experimental, Ambient"We've been trying to get these in stock for a while now, solo record number two from Evan Caminiti, one half of psychedelic doom drone duo Barn Owl. The other Caminiti solo record, Psychic Mud Shrine, introduced us to a world not all that far removed from Barn Owl, or Elm, the solo project from Caminiti's partner

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Label: Digitalis RecordingsReleased: 2006Style: Folk Rock, Acoustic, Experimental"Self released albums often get overlooked by most media outlets. This is a crime, especially considering that there is a lot of high quality stuff being put out by people with no money. You burn the CDs at home, you make the covers yourself, and you send out copies just hoping someone will listen. And I know from

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Label: VirginReleased: 1976Style: Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock"Gazeuse! was the first in a successful line of strictly jazz-rock sessions for percussionist Pierre Moerlen and company -- compositions that stressed jazz more than rock and which generally strayed away from lyrical content. This 1976 recording, also released under the title Expresso, was the band's first completely instrumental album

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-22807503024273023642010-01-17T20:35:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:06.436-08:00

Label: Southern LordReleased: 2007Style: Experimental, Avant Garde"'Hibernaculum'is the next chapter in Earth's revitalised story, and interestingly it sees the band (fronted by founding member Dylan Carlson) re-visting some of their old classics and bringing them bang up to date with the fresh 'Hex' style. Fittingly, the opening track is a rendition of 'Ouroboros is Broken' which first appeared

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Label: TypeReleased: 2009Style: Modern Classical, Score, Ambient"You might be surprised by the number of film soundtracks Jóhann Jóhannsson has completed over the course of his career. While his hugely popular and influential catalogue of work for labels like Touch and 4AD tends to dictate how we think about his music, the volume of documentary, short and feature film scores he's penned is

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Label: Barge RecordingsReleased: 2009Style: Abstract, Rock, Post-Rock, Experimental"The people behind Brooklyn's Barge imprint have clearly spent the last six months trying to work out how to follow up last year's jaw-dropping "Baby, It's Cold Inside" album from the oddly monikered 'The Fun Years', one of the most satisfying and immersive releases of the year. Their response? Why they've only

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-82534423382942484582010-01-10T12:33:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:06.762-08:00

Label: Blackest RainbowReleased: 2008Style: Experimental"Wow! Two minutes in and I'm thoroughly taken by 'Woven Into Light' by Elm which is the solo project of Jon Porras who is half of duo Barn Owl (Not Not Fun). This was recorded at home in San Francisco during the summer of 2008. Porras uses guitars, vocals, harmonium, harmonica, drum and flute combined with a huge amount of talent and

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Label: VirginReleased: 2003Style: Abstract, Art Rock, Experimental, Ambient"This newly compiled collection features the gorgeously ethereal Words With The Shamen mini album (recorded 1985) together with several rarities recorded during this period with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Also featuring the likes of Jon Hassell, Holger Czukay, Steve Jansen, Robert Fripp, etc., 'Alchemy An Index Of Possibilities' is

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-54941278578637677702009-12-17T19:54:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:06.968-08:00

Label: Root StrataReleased: 2008Style: Psychedelic Rock, Avantgarde"Root Strata is proud to present the reissue of The Anchorite, a dazzling jewel in Smith's substantial discography. Performed live to two track with the aid of tape loops and prerecorded takes, the music maintains a drifting, painterly quality that easily evokes the American west as much as the European east which Smith so

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-27521003916040425712009-12-13T10:18:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.074-08:00

Label: TouchReleased: 2002Style: Experimental, Ambient"Geir Jenssen aka Biosphere often appears to need a creative cue, if not a concept, to kickstart an album. One inspiration for the glacial textures of his first set for Touch, Cirque (2000) was the story of the ill-fated Chris McCandless, who hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992, skimped on is food supply, and was found dead four months later.

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Label: FarioReleased: 2009Style: Experimental, Ambient"There are few artists in the world of recorded music who have such an innate understanding of the use of silence and atmosphere as Thomas Köner. Next to Helge Sten, The Hafler Trio or Mika Vainio, Köner is an acclaimed master of ultra-subtle ambient acoustics, providing some of the finest records on labels like Mille Plateaux, Die Stadt and

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Label: DeccaReleased: 2004Style: ClassicalThis doesn't need a review. Just download it.Tracklisting:More accurate tracklisting on the actual songs1. Printemps - 1. Très Modéré 9:42 2. Printemps - 2. Modéré 6:18 3. Fantasy for piano and orchestra - Andante ma non troppo-Allegro giusto 7:54 4. Fantasy for piano and orchestra - Lento e molto espressivo 16:015. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 10:

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Label: Grönland RecordsReleased: 2008Style: Modern Classical"Describing the dream-inducing wash of sounds that is 'Inlandish', it is, at first listen, perhaps easy to call it ambient. Roedelius suggests that we should try a bit harder though: 'Ambient doesn't really express 'Inlandish''s complexity and beauty. 'Inlandish' is not easy to put in the category of what ambient music normally appears

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-12516388728212684892009-11-25T22:25:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.493-08:00

Label: Hefty RecordsReleased: 2006Style: Free Improvisation, Experimental, Minimal"A very welcome contribution to Hefty's catalogue from this Australian duo, Fyris Swan is a distinctly cinematic affair. The pair conjure the most delicate and wistful of acoustic-electronic landscapes. At times there's only the most spartan of sonic elements at work and the whole album seems to be held together by

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-60334401246254437422009-11-15T14:31:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.595-08:00

Label: ECM RecordsReleased: 1978Style: Post-Modern, Minimal"How is it possible to write a 'review' of this record? It seems futile as Reich's influence, especially from this record, sent shockwaves across the music scene and seeped into genres far and wide. Without Reich would post rock sound the same? Would New York's experimental rock scene have developed so fully? Would experimental music have

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-78512598722084093112009-11-15T14:20:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.691-08:00

Label: TresorReleased: 1999Style: Electro, Techno"Though a quick glance at the track titles -- "Organic Hydropoly Spores," "Polymono Plexusgel," "Triangular Hydrogen Strain," "Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam" -- lends the impression that this is yet another Drexciyan work wherein the music, though stellar enough, isn't quite as important as the sub-aquatic science-fiction themes, Neptune's Lair proves

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-87381533376263086482009-11-10T11:05:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.786-08:00

Label: The Consumers Research & Development LabelReleased: 2005Style: Leftfield, House, Ambient "Though Set Design is ten tracks long, six of those are brief, seemingly improvisational ambient interludes in between the four longer and more constructed -- though still pretty spacy -- pieces. Mastermind Franz Buchholtz plays almost all the instruments save for a

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-72063442285912634462009-11-06T22:57:00.000-08:002012-02-02T03:51:07.910-08:00

Label: KompaktReleased: 2005Style: House, Minimal, Ambient"Just prior to 1981's release, Markus Guentner's Kompakt labelmate Justus Köhncke produced an album titled Doppelleben (German for "Double Life"). Köhncke's title was appropriate, signifying his constant fluctuations between dance tracks and pop songs, but Guentner's own recording career is more deserving of the

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-64659624105305410572009-10-30T18:29:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.015-08:00

Label: Editions EGReleased: 1986Style: Ambient"The phrase 'Lovely Thunder' suggests a beautiful sound with an undertone of menace. One need go no farther than "Gypsy Violin," the last song and centerpiece of the album Lovely Thunder, to hear how Harold Budd takes the phrase and forges a musical equivalent. Underneath the plaintive melody of the synthesized violin and an occasional

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Label: VirginReleased: 1975Style: Ambient"As lush and entrancing as listeners are led to believe from the exotic foliage on the cover, Epsilon in Malaysian Pale is the Froese solo record closest in sound to Tangerine Dream. The light sequencer trance and waves of statuesque synthesizer effects on "Maroubra Bay" are quite similar to TD's work on Rubycon (released that same year), and it's just as

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-80444763115763874732009-10-26T11:28:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.222-08:00

Label: Beyond, BeyondReleased: 1996Style: Ambient"A collaboration between Biosphere's Geir Jenssen and Bobby Bird of Higher Intelligence Agency, commissioned by the Norwegian government for live performance at the 1995 Polar Music Festival. Suitably frosty melodies and glacial textures provide the framework for compositions utilizing the natural environment of the Arctic Circle for inspiration

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-78993949362433172842009-10-23T11:40:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.337-08:00

Label: Spalax MusicReleased: 1991Style: Krautrock, Electro, Downtempo, Minimal "The '70s were a fertile period for Manuel Göttsching. Having pioneered the kosmische guitar freakout with Ash Ra Tempel, he had embarked on a new phase by mid-decade. Inspired by minimalist composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass, Göttsching traded musical visions of

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-87510336451187809472009-10-19T11:42:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.444-08:00

Label: Ninja TuneReleased: 2001Style: Leftfield, Breaks, IDM, Downtempo "Vibert Returns, this time round on Ninja Tune, with a follow up to his Virgin-released 'Tally-HO' LP. Marking a return to upright feelgood funkiness that made his name with 'Throbbing Pouch' and 'Big Soup', this is purely joyful, easy music. Elements of Hip-Hop, breaks and

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Label: RelativityReleased: 1987Style: Space-Age, Fusion "Brit guitar hero Allan Holdsworth, ex of the Soft Machine, Gong, U.K., and Bill Bruford and Annette Peacock's solo projects, has been wildly inconsistent when it comes to his solo projects. Completely bonkers for technology, he's employed every gadget he can get his hands on own records, and has gotten results that

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-37260730961169772362009-10-14T10:53:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.668-08:00

Label: VirginReleased: 1977Style: Leftfield, Krautrock, Experimental, Minimal, Ambient "The first album for Virgin was New Age of Earth, an album that since became a classic. Although it is credited under the group name Ashra, New Age of Earth is actually performed by Manuel Göttsching alone. Relying more on synthesizers than his usual

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-44558108966580886532009-10-13T09:39:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:08.988-08:00

Label: Plug ResearchReleased: 2004Style: IDM, Dub, Electro, Downtempo "After extensive forays into more physical, club-related tracks with his series of releases (on Kompakt) Lowflow, recorded on and off over the last years, now heralds a return to his slower, more experimental side and provides a surprisingly concise description of the album's

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-64260331871990573392009-10-08T11:32:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.091-08:00

Label: Dealmaker RecordsReleased: 2008Style: Instrumental Hip-Hop, Downtempo"Wonky heads take note - if you're into the whole Flying Lotus / Samiyam / Rustie / Lukid thing - this is just the ticket. Deriving its name from a lost, mythical continent, Lemurian has little to do with lost undersea cities and the like, although there is something ever so slightly fantastical about these heavily

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-57423552125940992902009-10-08T11:22:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.193-08:00

Label: LidarReleased: 2008Style: Dark Ambient, Modern Classical, Ambient "Some lovely modern classical/electronic stuff now with Bersarin Quartett. Opener 'Oktober' is a fine track that manages to bridge the gaps betwen hip-hop, classical and dub. A gorgeous track with lazy beats, lush strings and effects washes. Max Richter, Johan Johannsen, Sylvain Chaveau,

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Label: VirginReleased: 1975Style: Electro, Experimental"Dedicated to Richard Wagner, Timewind is a 60-minute electronic expedition that is broken up into two half-hour tracks, "Bayreuth Return" and "Wahnfried 1883." The first 30 minutes involves icy pulsations and lengthy tonal flights that unnoticeably converge into each other. While one rhythm gains momentum, the other one slowly fades into a

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-64083618758995477882009-09-28T16:55:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.401-08:00

Label: Venture RecordsReleased: 1989Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient"David Sylvian and Holger Czukay are fairly eclectic and diverse musicians. In the European ambient scene, they are fixtures. Flux + Mutability is an album with two long-form compositions. "Flux" is "a big, bright, colorful world" and "Mutability" is "a new beginning...in the offing." These pieces are deep, expansive

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-61630789115004340162009-09-25T11:46:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.497-08:00

Label: TectonicReleased: 2008Style: Dubstep"The man like Peverelist drops an absolute killer joint for Tectonic. This producer has been a delight to watch in development recently, from the early shockwaves emitted from the 'Erstwhile rhythm' just over a year ago, the Bristol scene stalwart has kept us on the edge of our collective seat waiting for more of his patented hybrid dubstep techno

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-26198445970158523412009-09-24T16:21:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.608-08:00

Label: TectonicReleased: 2009Style: Techno, Dubstep "Dubstep release of the week comes from 2562 with the shocking 'Love In Outer Space' and 'Third Wave' cuts dropping smart and heavy on Tectonic. It's hard not to fall for 'Love In Outer Space', easily one of the most abstract and stylish cuts we've heard from Dave Huismans casuallystepping forward from the

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Label: Important RecordsReleased: 2007Style: Abstract, Psychedelic Rock "Guitarist, violinist, performer on numerous traditional instruments, composer, leader of the Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata Makoto expresses in this solo performance all his mantric cosmical vocations and spins them into space sonorities! He took inspiration

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-47623940967545022742009-09-16T22:43:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:09.819-08:00

Label: SamadhisoundReleased: 2004Style: Modern Classical, Ambient"On Avalon Sutra, Budd’s valedictory release, he has created brief, snapshot like compositions, made all the more fragile and impermanent by his glistening piano work, Avalon Sutra has a bittersweet, autumnal quality – the composer’s trademark “loveliness” deepened and perturbed by the brevity of these pieces. If “ambient” music

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Label: Inteam GmbHReleased: 1984Style: Minimal, Ambient, House"E2-E4, one of the few records Göttsching released under his own name, has earned its place as one of the most important, influential electronic records ever released. It's also the earliest album to set the tone for electronic dance music; simply put, it just sounds like the mainstream house produced during the next two decades.

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Label: PolydorReleased: 1977Style: Leftfield, Krautrock, Minimal, Experimental"Blackouts is a classic CD from Ashra. (As an aside, it is included in the Ambient Three Pack box set along with Aqua by Edgar Froese and Blackdance by Klaus Schulze. While those are all excellent CDs, they are not, by any stretch of any imagination, ambient.) This disc features Manuel Göttsching at his best. His guitar

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-52295639874683783562009-08-28T21:35:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:10.142-08:00

Label: KrankyReleased: 2002Style: House, Abstract, Indie Rock, Experimental, Disco "Here it is, the first kranky release aimed at your ass as well as your head. Out Hud deliver the rhythm and the restraint; recalling the dry, brittle funk of early 80s UK post-punk, Sherwood’s beat-mashing across the On-U Sound catalog and even acid house

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-2857130370277539062009-08-22T23:03:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:10.243-08:00

Label: Room40Released: 2009Style: Ambient, Acoustic"Saunter is in some ways an auditory interpretation of the monochromatic Chinese painting style ‘Sansui-Ga’. An approach concerned with the themes of landscape, ‘Sansui-Ga’ seeks to express a sense of philosophical consideration for the form and shape.Saunter follows this approach, casting out lush layers of texture that seem to sound out the

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Label: BrainReleased: 1976Style: Electro, Experimental, Ambient"Klaus Schulze is one of the most legendary e-musicians of all time. He is also one of the best and most original. Moondawn is one of the true classics of the genre. For many serious listeners, this was the first and/or most important electronic music purchase. There is good reason for such sentiment — this is a great album. It is

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Label: Digitalis RecordingsReleased: 2009Style: Abstract, Drone, Folk, Experimental, Ambient "Weis is the drummer in Zelienople, and since Zelienople never had much cause for a proper drummer, Weis manages to be super creative behind the kit, or maybe more accurately, with an arsenal of cymbals and gongs and chimes, creating textures and

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Label: Editions EGReleased: 1987Style: Ambient"Laraaji uses an open-tuned instrument with some degree of electrification (and, presumably, with studio enhancements courtesy of Eno), which creates a brilliant, full sound. The first three pieces, "The Dance, Nos. 1-3," are rhythmically charged and propulsive, with tinges of Irish hammered dulcimer music mixed with a dash of Arabic influence. The

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Label: KompaktReleased: 2000Style: Ambient, Techno"What is beautiful? Flowers, butterflies, diamonds, fluffy clouds, sunset, Kylie Minogue.... and Pop Ambient! Especially if it comes from Buenos Aires' finest: Gustavo Lamas. Already known for his fantastic releases on Traum and Fragil Discos (Argentina) he now presents his guest performance for Kompakt. Amazing dreamy textures layered around a

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Label: VirginReleased: 1993Style: Leftfield, Abstract, Space Rock, Ambient "Although it seemed to arrive out of nowhere in the early '90s, ambient music actually has a long and varied history, leading back to Brian Eno and Kraftwerk's electronic experiments in the 1970s, right up to Aphex Twin's textural techno soundscapes. As an introduction and

Sarah Sweetz Akhzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15584629797459728817noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5912580161537280457.post-11695326445649475782009-05-21T15:56:00.000-07:002012-02-02T03:51:10.856-08:00

Label: KrankyReleased: 2006Style: Experimental, Ambient "Chihei Hatakeyama concentrated on the textures of sound in creating Minima Moralia, consciously avoiding the use of electronic sounds; instead using sound fragments made by guitars and vibraphone he played himself. The fragments were processed and reprocessed in live performances on laptop. The contention between the

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Label: Root StrataReleased: 2009Style: Lo-Fi, Folk "Portland, OR. bedroom wanderer Ilyas Ahmed emerges from the shadows and offers up his first new batch of songs in some time. Over a year in the making, 'Goner' sees Ahmed telescoping his previous acoustic wanderings into fuzzed out rockers and a hypnotic set of beautifully tight knit nocturnes. The kick off of 'Earn Your

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Label: 12kReleased: 2009Style: Abstract, Minimal, Ambient "Sleeping Pills is the debut release from Germany’s Pillowdiver, whose concepts of simplification and minimalism led him to self-imposed limitations for the creation of this work. Utilizing primarily a Fender Jazzmaster, with a small amount of synthesizer and field recording, Pillowdiver took advantage of

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Label: Raster-NotonReleased: 2009Style: Experimental, Ambient "Part two of Alva Noto's Xerrox series takes up right where the last one left off, continuing on in a much more buzzy, blissy, droney vein, way more textural and melodic than many of the AN records that have come before. In the review of volume one we mentioned Pop Ambient, and if anything volume 2 is even more

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Label: Essence MusicReleased: 2007Style: Noise, Psychedelic Rock "Motorik krautrock rhythms work side by side with interstellar signals, ghostly female voices and analog synths. Bursts of damaged psych brilliance and free guitars open and seal the album, healing the aural wounds for/from the mammoth droney, mysterious and transcendental ambient experience of the title track,

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Label: HyperdubReleased: 2009Style: Dubstep"Steve Goodman continues to shift his style towards the Funky light wih two more brilliant cuts for Hyperdub further removed from his previous dread bass dubstep explorations. 'Black Sun' is quite the shocker, sounding like the mutant basschild of Drexciya and 4 Hero with rippling junglist/dubstep subbass wrapped around a bobbling square-wave bassline

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Label: KrankyReleased: 1996Style: Minimal, Ambient"Though still wafting in a saline bath of 4AD-esque ambiance, Labradford have solidified into a more coherent whole by their third album. Labradford mixes the spare, whispered vocals of their previous LP, A Stable Reference, with smart bits of percussion and a warm, clean fusion of guitars, analog synths, a violin or two, and loads of effects

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Label: TouchReleased: 2009Style: Modern Classical, Contemporary, Experimental"Hildur Gudnadottir is a gifted cellist with an impressive history of collaborations that includes work with Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle, Johann Johannsson, Skúli Sverrisson and Ben Frost among many others, as well as being a member of Iceland's notable Kitchen Motors collective. She first came to our attention on Pan

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Label: KompaktReleased: 2001Style: Dub Techno, Minimal, Ambient "Squelches and whirrs nestle in rolling hills of fuzzy dreamy drones as clicks and pops struggle for air beneath a downy blanket of suffocatingly gorgeous billowy clouds of synth wash. Sound good? It does.In creating "In Moll," Markus Guentner has done more than his part to fill the void created by

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Label: SomniaReleased: 2008Style: Minimal, Ambient "“humus” unfolds slowly through a symphony of organic minimalism, evolving and growing over a course of 11 tracks. classical flourishes adorn warm and inviting textural sketches, and subtle electronic manipulation

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Label: KrankyReleased: 2009Style: Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Pop"Lockett Pundt's first full length is an expansive meditation on the modern history of the pop song with an obvious appreciation for the atmospheric vocal harmonies of the 50's, the Brill Building writers of the 60's, and the sounds of the early 80's postpunk uk scene. The production is multi-multi-layered with a seemingly endless

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Label: SomniaReleased: 2008Style: Minimal, Ambient"evan bartholomew brings another example of sonic storytelling to somnia, moving from atmospheric float into pulsing minimal electroid rhythms.fractaline analog grooves and micro beat construction establish a hypnotic base for a composed layer of ambient exploration to unfold. presenting a balance of analog moduler synth elements and complex dsp

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Label: Sentient Recognition ArchiveReleased: 2008Style: Ambient, Drone"Fabio Orsi is a name that every spacey-drone lover should recognize. He stands out as one who is truly able to capture an environment. His soft, light, airy textures remind me of the way I feel staring at a Mark Rothko painting. There are no clearly defined boundaries but rather all edges are fuzzy and limitless. Everything

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Label: Mille PlateauxReleased: 2002Style: Abstract, IDM, Minimal "Now with Tender Love, SND move in a far more melodic context than ever before. The results are striking but all the same familiar. The sensibilities of funk find it's way into syncopated rhythms, breakbeats and jittered

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Label: KompaktReleased: 2001Style: Minimal, Ambient"Excepting the mostly dancefloor-friendly Total 3 compilation, 2001 witnessed Cologne's Kompakt label blitzing the bins with a number of ambient releases. The ball began to roll with Pop Ambient 2001, a compilation that introduced Markus Guentner and Ulf Lohmann to those who hadn't kept up with the label's spate of 12" releases. Later in the year

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Label: SomniaReleased: 2008Style: Dub Techno, Ambient"diving deep with hypnotic rhythms, sub-aquatic bass pulsations and reverberant melodies, evan marc explores varying states of non-waking life on this full-length outing. his sensitive approach to sound design is woven perfectly with atmospheric guitar tones supplied by system7's steve hillage, crafting a unique and cinematic take on the dub

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Label: HyperdubReleased: 2008Style: Instrumental Hip Hop"Hiphop pressure beats this week from Hyperdub's first US signing and Flying Lotus collaborator Samiyam. With only a small handful of releases to his name for everyone from Fat City recs to Ninja Tune the styles sit very closely to his production brother Flylo with a superbly squashed selection of downtempo hiphop all carrying that

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Label: KrankyReleased: 1998Style: Post Rock, Minimal, Ambient, Shoegaze"Extended guitar figures float over Jessica's vocals, bass, drums, samples and percussion. Jessica is joined by Zak Sally and Mimi Parker of Low on a couple tracks. Alan Sparhawk made contributions to the seven tracks recorded in Duluth. The album is an affecting mix of instruments and Jessica's

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