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Fathom Tides is an LP of incremental change.  Best heard as a single, slowly-developing piece, the album reflects the pace of nature over that of humanity.  The earth is in no hurry; the trees are not multi-tasking; the streams do have somewhere to go, but save for times of torrent, they are in no rush. The album begins with a trickle of water, a rustle of wood, a suggestion of wind.  One must…

This second album from the Belgian violinist and composer introduces haunted shreds of voice.  Unlike her more cerebral debut Picture a Frame, Chronotopia threads soft wordless lullabies among the plucking, gliding, thumping improvised string tones.  It plays with time, as the title suggests, but also with memory and perception. 

Various Artists ~ Epiphanies

A compilation album is a tricky beast.  Swiss record label Hallow Ground’s Epiphanies appropriately deploys the form to illustrate the hopelessly subjective nature of an epiphanic experience.  The featured artists, many of whom have worked with Hallow Ground before, were each invited to contribute work created using a ‘non-rational compositional process’ which would approach the phenomenon of an…

Lawrence English - Observation of Breath (2021)

Siavash Amini - A Mimesis of Nothingness

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Maria W Horn - Epistasis

Slowly evolving melodies and chords, piano, strings, organ, and other sounds. Hypnotic, melancholic, beautiful, sometimes peaceful, sometimes dark.

Favourite track: "Konvektion".