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There’s music minus one, and then there’s music that’s little more than one. “Music Minus One” were those old LPs of arrangements lacking a single part, so you could practice your Dixieland clarinet playing or whatnot. “Little more than one” …
An eight-minute slice of glacial melodicism sandwiched between two half-hour vacuum-packed decanters of space music, Souns’ Scenarios for the Real Self is as expansive as it is ethereal. The relatively concise interlude, “Natreal” (MP3), is almost unbearably light ambience. …
Each of the six tracks on Gate Zero’s 6 Rooms is intended to suggest a different space, among them a living room, a kitchen and an illusory locale on the Star Trek holodek. The experiment is an interesting idea, though …
“Whereas the Limmat runs deep and fast and appears rather pure in its composition, the Sihl plunders along slowly, is comparatively shallow and interspersed with a good number of rocks jutting through its surface, small whirlpools and random clumps of …
Quick Links, News and Good Reads: (1) The Hafler Trio is planning a subscription service for limited-edition releases (brainwashed.com). … (2) Grooves magazine is ceasing to be a print publication, the website announced earlier this month, opting to become …
Quick Links and News: (1) Perhaps inevitably, a podcast of silence, for John Cage’s MP3 player (silentpodcast.com). … (2) Among Time magazine’s list of the best inventions of 2005: the Turtle Dance, a little plastic toy that, among other …
The podcasts from brainwashed.com are often like a good college radio show, a string of great songs casually strung together, but occasionally they’re much more, like when they plumb the depths of the record collection of the series’ host, Jon …