As Neil’s Heavy Concept Album had been unavailable for many years the Esoteric Recordings (Cherry Red Records) team took it upon themselves to restore this missing whimsical oddment and along with the customary re-mastering this reissue reprises the cassette version…
View More Neil’s Heavy Concept AlbumMonth: August 2014
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFO
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff 29th August 2014 I wasn’t intending on writing a report of this gig but as it was notable for a number of different reasons I think it is more than worth a few words, if only…
View More Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso UFOSunn O))) & Ulver – Terrestrials
Four years in the making, Terrestrials is a collaboration between two beacons of alternative music, shining their black light at one another across the vastness of the tumultuous Atlantic Ocean and the entire uncaring width of the North American continent.…
View More Sunn O))) & Ulver – TerrestrialsFarpoint – Paint The Dark
This is the sixth studio album from a South Carolina five-piece who have been plying their trade since way back in 1997, but who have evaded my attention until now, and who state that their vision is “to create melodic…
View More Farpoint – Paint The DarkRichard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi – Tikkun
The currently prolific Richard Pinhas, French electronic music pioneer and otherworldly guitar wrangler famed for his exploratory ambient/rock band Heldon returns with a double release on the esteemed Cuneiform label. Whereas Welcome In The Void, created in partnership with drummer…
View More Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi – TikkunRichard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya – Welcome In The Void
With sheets of sound whistling around the listener’s ears this is an intergalactic trip like no other. It is certainly a visceral experience that shows the power of both of the artists involved to their full potential. And what artists…
View More Richard Pinhas & Yoshida Tatsuya – Welcome In The VoidAlex Carpani – 4 Destinies
A name that has regularly cropped up in recent years, is Swiss-born Italian keyboardist and composer Alex Carpani. I’ve heard a couple of pieces by him previously, but for whatever reason he seems to have always remained on my to…
View More Alex Carpani – 4 DestiniesFred Laird – Earthling Society
“Out here in the perimeter there are no stars” said Mr Morrison, and where Fleetwood in Lancashire is concerned the metaphor becomes soot flecked reality if we are to believe the various hideous epithets appended to his home town by…
View More Fred Laird – Earthling SocietyThe United States Of America – The United States Of America
Originating in the New York experimental music scene of the mid to late 1960s, The United States Of America shared a radical outlook with fellow Big Apple dwellers The Velvet Underground, and, according to legend, Nico once tried to join…
View More The United States Of America – The United States Of AmericaPingvinorkestern – Push
Hailing from Malmö in southern Sweden, Pingvinorkestern unsurprisingly take their name and ethos from that mildly eccentric English institution, the Penguin Café Orchestra. Similarly fusing pop, folk, classical and general quirkiness, but with a modernistic bent, Pingvinorkestern with their debut…
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