Tag Archives: ambient

KEVIN KASTNING & MARK WINGFIELD – Eleven Rooms

April 18, 2016

Greydisc 2015 Aural allusions of Johannes Vermeer’s work as treated in Transatlantic strokes – luminescent and elusive – by two six-strings stalwarts. Englishman Wingfield and American Kastning’s fifth collaborative album in five years is very difficult to grasp and very … Continue reading →

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MIKE METHENY – Twelve For The Road

April 15, 2016

3 Valve Music 2015 Ambient trip from famed jazz reedman who doesn’t blow his trumpet – well, almost – as he rolls the sound around the ears. He may joke about trying to crawl out of his younger brother Pat’s … Continue reading →

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CIRCLES – More Circles

March 28, 2016

Einhorn 1984 / Mental Experience 2016 Obscure, if shiny, artifact from post-Krautrock era with its zeitgeist intact. By the ’80s, the halcyon days of Deutschland take on prog were effectively over, which didn’t discourage occasional questing soul from tapping into … Continue reading →

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FINS A LUMINOUS – Setting Souls / Funeral Shake

January 27, 2016

Fins A Luminous 2015 Descending into dark recesses of psyche with buzz and blues, British electronica mavens mesmerize and trance. Whatever’s brewed on a computer can be perceived as dead music but, as such, it can open the doors to … Continue reading →

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ROCKET ROBERT – Rocket Robert

December 15, 2015

Future 1982 / Got Kinda Lost 2015 Spaced-out and out of time: obscure Oregon auteur’s curio gets into expanse. The notion of retrofuturism couldn’t bother Robert Moore less when he funded a private pressing of this home recording with the … Continue reading →

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