Not gonna lie

I don't know what else to upload now. It's not that I don't have anything to upload, but rather a) I don't think I have what anyone wants or b) you can already get them from other blogs, sites, etc.

With that being said I probably try to upload something here a bit more often as it has been several weeks since the last post.

Also the AX anthology seems to be taking longer than what was originally thought. Not sure when that's going to be finished.

Michael Tanner & Sharron Kraus - In The Rheidol Valley

"Compared to the previous albums by Sharron Kraus the starting point for it fits best with the release she did with Christian Kiefer and with the project Rusalnaia, where she also retreated from this world to come to a musical project’s own musical environment. This was a project with Michael Tanner (Plinth). The intro in the first track only shows the sheep sounds and the environment itself, being the Rheidol Valley in Wales, as far as we hear, a silent deserted place. But from then on, this minimal setting like a rock without much growth becomes almost shocking for me because this comes hardly outside of its skin. We hear simple dual pickings on two zithers not leading to anything, or not much. There’s a bit of use of hand bells and hand drums, and some background noise participates in the recording. Mostly we hear two close picking instruments, zither-like, finding a ghostly harmony side by site. The rhythm is like the cradle of death with the wind of no return and the minimal chords and notes are from an almost spooky stagnant position. The last track where it becomes too much for me is too much of a repetition of this, and I am bored, not understanding the effort of having put this on a mini- LP, even though I like the drawing on the front cover, and it could have led to something when only having gone a bit deeper with some effort, nutrition, challenge or philosophy. Now this sounds like funeral music preparations before a nearby suicide."

DF

Dense Reduction - Fictive Agriculture

"Travis Bird and Evan Lindorff-Ellery caught my attention straight away on their first trio of releases on the label they run together, Notice Recordings. “Fictive Agriculture” finds them spewing new organic sonar trails through hazy concrete forests. This is music that requires repeated listens to fully digest all the layers. Things start off minimal and almost-melodic before bursting into a blown-out, churning mess. Things go back & forth, covered in tape hiss and full of tonal warmth. It’s like unsuspectingly tuning into lost radio transmissions from the past half-century, sending out maydays from a distant planet.

The flipside opens things up a bit with some harmonic sand castles from the start. Eventually the tide rolls in and smashes the whole thing into bits, but the cleansing is all well and good because bleak, dissonant electronic triumph emerges from the ashes. It coalesces into a feedback labyrinth, unsafe for those with delicate ears."

oh hai