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concern - Caesarean
*Beautiful album of aged recordings, drones and field recordings - a must for followers of William Basinski* Caesarean's lead track, 'Discrete Memorial' is a real rarity within the field of ambient music: it's a piece that instantly takes hold of you, dragging you deeply into its faded, tape-eroded realm. Rather than stringing out drones from analogue synths, soft synths or field recordings, Concern's Gordon Ashworth instead calls upon the services of various acoustic sound sources (clarinet, banjo, guitars, organs and more), all collaged together in an almost tangibly physical recording environment that seems a million miles away from the computer-dominated soundscapes this genre generally throws your way. It's only the start of a very long journey (the album isn't too far off maxing out the disc), but you might have trouble moving on from 'Discrete Memorial'. It's really quite wonderful; full of faults and dropouts, an introductory piano riff fires up in a stuttering loop, before languid woodwind tones join in. In theory this would all sound a bit derivative of William Basinski, but Ashworth ably asserts a very different voice on these pieces and certainly doesn't adhere to any strictly repetitious loop-driven formula. Even on more conventionally drone-driven compositions like 'Mending' or 'Leaving Gold' there's very evidently something special about those shimmering harmonics and endlessly sustaining strings; as much as the music itself, it's to do with the production and the way the instruments dissolve into one another as Ashworth pieces the different elements together. Using both cassettes and quarter-inch tape, the album layers various crumbling stretches of acoustic sounds - perhaps never more adeptly than on the finely spliced 'From Warmth And From Violence' and its half-hour-plus follow-up 'Immersed In Envy, Porous With Forgetfulness', a formidable, slow-moving montage of ideas and sonic environments. Opening with ten minutes or so of dazzling metallic thrum, Ashworth goes on to pool sparse, untreated concrete sounds with overspilling harmonium chords to tremendous effect. Like Caesarian as a whole, it's not easy to pinpoint precisely what it is about all this that distinguishes Concern as something special, but take a listen and it'll soon become self-evident. Highly recommended.
MIASMAH
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Aged, haunted sounding recordings, fusing modern classical composition with the darkest hues of ambience
BARGE
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Long-awaited new album from this amazing project, somewhere between Ben Frost and Fennesz
Touch
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Exalted sonic alchemist and sound artist Philip Jeck presents his wonderful sixth solo album for Touch.
Type Recordings
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Like an all-analogue take on Fennesz's noisier moments, complete with drone-pop and shoegaze signatures.
Type Recordings
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Incredible synth/drone works from Geoff Mullen
Root Strata
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Superb ambient dronescapes on the always exemplary Root Strata imprint
Helen Scarsdale Agency
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A wonderful 2005 album from this Scandinavian drone/field-recording super-group
Type Recordings
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New album from one of America's most persistently interesting avant-garde percussionists,
Rhizomatique
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One of the outstanding entries in Thomas Koner's catalogue: 2003's Zyklop, digitally reissued
Rhizomatique
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Thomas Koner's Greenlandic epic, given a much-needed digital reissue
SLOW FLOW REC
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Lilting synth-strings, layered drone-ambience and soaring ascents toward amped-up dissonance. Recommended.
SLOW FLOW REC
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Calm and drifting drone and acousmatic sentiments from Richard Ginns on his sophomore release.
SLOW FLOW REC
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Beautiful post-ambient textures from the wonderful Celer...
Plague Recordings
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Darkest drone and blackened post-industrial ambience from Martin Kränzel aka Wicked Messenger.
DIGITALIS
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'Coasts' is the compelling collaboration between John Twells (Xela) and Matt Christensen (Zelienople).
ROOM 40
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Excellent new album from Rafael Anton Irisarri, aka The Sight Below.
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
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Mindblowing and highly sought after collaboration, not to be missed!
Type Recordings
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Incredible Kosmische variants situated somewhere between the early 70s and the early 10s...
Root Strata
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Total darkness channeled into long waves of sound.
All Are Guests In the House Of The Lord
HOSPITAL PRODUCTIONS
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ROOM 40
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Two brand new, utterly compelling tracks from Liz harris' wonderful Grouper.
Sacred Bones Records
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Emaciated drum machines somewhere between Siouxsie Sioux and Cold Cave. Highly Recommended!
My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
Young God
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Michael Gira resurrects his seminal no-wave/industrial band for a superb new album following a 14-year hiatus
