Dedicated 21st Century polymath Kay Logan continues to expand her soundworld in every direction at once with her Helena Celle alias. A maximalist internal landscape of broken jungle patterns, distorted synths and heavily warped instrumentation bent out of cognisance, 'If You Can't Handle You At Your Worst, Then I Don't Deserve Me At My Best'...
Although Akustikkoppler is a project that has been active for a little over a decade, its two members are veteran artists and great connoisseurs of the avant-garde music scene. This project is the result of the union of two avid minds: Malte Steiner, a German artist based in Denmark who launched his first...
Change, experimentation, going forward with a new direction, seem to be the themes of “La Disciplina Dell’Anima” (The Discipline Of The Soul). And changes are many here, indeed. A duo no more, Costume becomes the solo effort of MauSS presenting instrumental music between psychedelic rock, noir and jazzy tunes, nightly ambiances and even...
Electronic music composer and modular synthesist Bart Hawkins’ dedication to inner sonic exploration began in the early ’80s when his practice of Zen Meditation and love of the Berlin School style of electronic music launched him into a world of musical landscapes, sonic textures, and silence, sparking a spiritual awakening into the power of sound....
40 Octaves Below is the solo project of Drake Moore, a Vancouver-based artist who in just under 4 years has managed to self-release several albums showcasing over 15 years of career. 40 Octaves Below is the culmination and the journey itself, it is about programming and reprogramming; updates, deletions and refactorings to reflect new information,...
Takahiro Kinoshita aka 99Letters has been making music for a few years now, originally in and around his native Osaka, and latterly in Shiga prefecture. He started out making fairly functional club-oriented house and techno tracks, but has gradually been getting more experimental with his approach as time has gone by. His music...
Tendril is a sonic landscape, its formations are taking the shape of a constantly rearranging mechanical organism. The Hungarian label Exiles is recording this first meeting of the two musicians on an album that was recorded in the course of two sessions held in the slums of Budapest's 8th district. Adam Czitrom...
Spanish label Oigovisiones opens 2023 with an album by pianist and improviser Carmen Morales aka Dode, a release produced by the artist herself and recorded live at the stunning Bodega Descalzos Viejos in the Andalusian town of Ronda. Undoubtedly, the choice of this location has determined the final sound of this work, the...
Obwigszyh returns to Exiles after releasing Personal Data in 2020, an album on which he was conditioned by the isolation suffered during the first months of confinement due to Covid-19. However, the Hungarian producer had debuted on the label a year earlier, sharing a release with his partner and fellow producer...
With a musical career spanning two decades, Kateryna Zavoloka can be considered one of the great promoters of avant-garde electronic music in Eastern Europe, although she is originally from Kiev and lives in Berlin. Zavoloka first shaped her artistic figure among complex sound fields, polyrhythms, leathery textures and empirical developments, and then, together...
