Edgar Froese was planning for Tangerine Dream to continue after his death, as we now know from the release of Particles and Quantum Gate in 2017, but this interview took place about 8 months before he sadly died in January…
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Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari is a singer with an impressive range and enough drama in his highly expressive voice to fill the Old Vic several times over. Having appeared with various bands on numerous releases on the RareNoise label, LEF now…
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Suffering from a surfeit of weltschmerz recently? What you need is to give it a no-man soundtrack, then everything becomes clear, and by transposing your suffering and crushing ennui onto the surprisingly strong shoulders of the deceptively elfin-like Tim Bowness,…
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Greetings, fellow misanthropes! Like me, do you loathe the way Christmas has become a “season” that seems to start the second after the autumn equinox, and goes on until January 7th or thereabouts? And do you detest the ever-growing tacky…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London Wednesday, 15th November 2017 Islington, long since gentrified by incremental Hipster Creep, is the sort of place where, if so inclined, Tarquin and Jemima could waste their ludicrous salaries from Perfect Curve* in sundry branches of…
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Three years after the heady sounds of IV, Danish metronomically precise, but altogether human instrumentalists Papir return with V, unsurprisingly their fifth studio album. The titular minimalism continues into the track titles, which are simply numbers, continuing a tradition from…
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Italian bass guitarist Lorenzo Feliciati, in between supplying the lower register for several bands from the RareNoise stable including Mumpbeak, Berserk!, Naked Truth, and Twinscape, has found the time to make his own records, the last being the highly engaging…
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There is something gloriously primal about this recording, evident from the moment the jagged edges of the otherwise chooglin’ pop moves of spiky album opener Dark Sleep Fortress rip out the speakers and tear at your consciousness. Don’t make the…
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It is good to see a new album from Dusan Jevtovic, some four years on from the rather feisty Am I Walking Wrong? A truly multi-national project, this recording shows what can be done in the spirit of international co-operation…
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Lighthouse is a companion album to the mighty fine The Stone House, released earlier in the year but actually recorded before it during a marathon session in 2016, from which three albums will eventually emerge blinking into the uncaring daylight.…
View More Wingfield Reuter Sirkis – Lighthouse