MusiqueMachine.com Reviews

These reviews were written for the MusiqueMachine.com website. My tastes and theirs coincide often, so a lot of what I cover for them may echo things I review here on my own.

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Music for Gardening (Maja S. K. Ratkje & Lasse Marhaug) Audio samples available

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Noise and junk sonic collage that never rises above being a mere collision.


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Demian (Rose Rovine E Amanti)

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Rousing and energetic folk that extends on where Current 93 and its ilk leave off.


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European Music And Ballads From Renaissance And Baroque Era (Damiano Mercuri)

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One example of how indie music’s past may be classical music’s future.


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The Harmonic Series (Various Artists)

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Music in "just intonation" that's more than fusty academic exercises.


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Navigare (Simon Scott) Audio samples available

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Invigorating sonic fog with a lot more to it than just pure volume.


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Miniatures (Asher)

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An heir to William Basinski’s throne creates his own crumbling loops.


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Heated (Jana Winderen) Audio samples available

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A microphone in a fault line? — Much more than that on close listening.


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144 Pulsations of Light (Ethernet) Audio samples available

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Gentle pulses in the vein of Apex Twin's early “Ambient Works”.


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Chromatophore (Anthony Pateras) Audio samples available

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Academic and abstract, but not actually all that interesting.


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The Breathing of Statues (Gordon Grdinia’s East Van Strings) Audio samples available

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Lively and colorful work from an indie band that puts musicianship first.


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