February 2011
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WatchJuv are Norwegian duo consisting of Are Mokkelbost and Marius Von Der Fehr who recently released their self-titled debut on Miasmah (my review comes very soon). The source material for Juv was recorded between 1996 and 1998 and after their ended friendship duo’s music fell into oblivion. Just last year Are decided to look back into the past and together with Marius they refurbished, cut and...
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Strom Noir: Serene and joyful harmony
Strom Noir is Slovak musician Emil Maťko who has been composing ambient and experimental music for ten years. Writing about him feels very special to me as he lives in the same city as I do, but his work is much better known abroad than at home. Maťko’s albums were released on bunch of interesting labels, such as Hibernate and Resting Bell which carefully select just very talented and...
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Svarte Greiner presents two new forthcoming...
Erik Skodvin, who most often performs as Svarte Greiner, experiences highly prolific season. It started with last year’s stunning Flare (musicAddicted’s 4th favourite album), his mostly acoustic album released via Sonic Pieces, than his second album with Otto Totland as Deaf Center (review coming very soon), except of that a split EP with Le Corbeau, innovative gig at Unitarian...
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Conquering Animal Sound: Kammerspiel →
True to its name, which translates roughly from German to mean ‘chamber play’, Kammerspiel is a subtle collection of eleven songs that, to the listener, sound as though Conquering Animal Sound were playing them right there in the same room. The Glasgow-based duo of Anneke Kampman and James Scott imbues their music with such natural warmth that it feels as if these songs were composed and played...
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Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek: Let the shadows...
Machinefabriek, Dutch ambient and experimental musician, is well-known for his almost unbelievable productivity and versatility. Rutger Zuydervelt, the brain and heart behind Machinefabriek, lives inside his music. It captures his frequent trips (among them is also EP Slovensko which was recorded while visiting Slovak Republic, my home country), socializing and meeting other, similarly...
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WatchDaníel Bjarnason, Icelandic composer and conductor, released one of the most impressive contemporary classical albums last year (musicAddicted’s second favourite album; also read my Slovak review). Processions is not only staggering and subduing collection of two of his symphonic triptychs, but also defines direction where the classical scene should move at best. Bjarnason’s talents...
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WatchAustra, Canadian gothic synthpop trio, are releasing their first EP, Beat And The Pulse which plays in the musical vein of Zola Jesus, Fever Ray and iamamiwhoami. The trio gathered around Katie Stelmanis, charismatic singer with Italian and Latvian roots, explores decadent sexuality and dark instincts with somewhat lighter and catchier layered electronics and 80’s synthesizers. Yesterday,...
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Marissa Nadler: Entire album of yet unreleased,...
Marissa Nadler, American singer-songwriter, painter and woodcarver, is interestingly active these days. Along with recording her fifth studio album and publishing video for Rosary, beautiful ballad from her impressive Little Hells, she created her own Bandcamp page today, where she offers an entire album of yet unreleased songs among other rarities. Ivy and the Clovers, name of this cute...
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WatchNils Frahm is young pianist and composer who along with his own solo career does engineering and mixing to other artists at his studio in Germany. Today, his home label Erased Tapes, published a video capturing his live performance of beautiful composition Said And Done at Haldern Pop Festival 2010. Taken from his staggering The Bells, musicAddicted’s 4th best album of 2009 (article written...
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WatchMarissa Nadler, American poet & songstress, is working on new material for yet untitled album that was partly subsidized by her fans thanks to Pledge project. While arranging another bunch of blue, dreamy songs, she published a video for Rosary, second song from awesome album Little Hells, one of musicAddicted’s favourite releases of 2009 (Slovak written). Rosary is a dreamy ballad of a...
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Simon Scott sings on his fragile Depart, Repeat...
Simon Scott’s release of his two new compositions comes as an interesting surprise for few reasons. The former drummer for legendary shoegaze, dream pop crew Slowdive who runs his own Kesh label came back to the alternative music scene in 2009 with his first solo work, Navigare, delivered via renowned Miasmah label and year later he came with shorter Traba EP and for falling asleep...
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WatchJames Blake is one of the hottest names this year and week before his self-titled debut album comes, video for its second song drops (the first one was Feist’s cover Limit To Your Love). The Wilhelm Scream, one of the best songs on highly anticipated James Blake, gets surreal and weirdly calm audio-visual form. The entire trick of the video beauty dwells in its unity and constancy. It shows...
