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Daniel Bürkner, Who Are You, Planet, (Vinyl, CD, Digital album), osc lc 27, oscarson, 2024

Previously on the Borders series … In the first episode we covered the launch of Glacis‘ epic four-album project, released six months at a time and now culminating in a four-LP box set (with each segment also available separately).  The project began as Euan Alexander Millar McMeeken moved to the Scottish border and began to think about the concept of borders and the multiple crises raging around…

If the album title looks slightly but not completely familiar, it’s because we reviewed Almost Home If I’m Still Alive last year.  That LAAPS LP included Dalton Alexander‘s entire first album, plus three tracks from his second.  This year, I Wonder How Many Are Still Alive appears in physical form for the first time and includes all ten tracks, courtesy of oscarson. We’re thrilled to be able to…

This spring, the LAAPS label brought our attention to Yukon artist Dalton Alexander with Almost Home If I’m Still Alive, combining tracks from two previous releases.  This fall, the artist justifies the attention with a short but memorable set of new material. The feature that sets Alexander apart from other artists is the space he provides for field recordings: not just nature sounds, but…

Perseverance is the first part of the ambitious four-part Borders series, with a new movement unveiled every six months until the series is complete.  The album titles are inspired by Yoko Ono and refer to the four seasons; the initial installment matches up with winter.  The overall project, however, tackles much more immediate issues. When hearing the word borders, one thinks of the various…

What could be more appealing than the sight of two space dogs on an album cover?  Belka & Strelka are perhaps the lesser-known space dogs, because they lived; their unfortunate predecessor Laika died a horrible death.  Sputnik 5 also held space mice, space rats and space flies, a small menagerie that circled the earth on August 19, 1960 and returned safely. The duo Brueder Selke (also known as…