May 2011
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The most apt word for describing Puzzle Muteson’s artistic entity is fragile. His exquisite tenor flies over delicately finger-plucked tones of tender guitar with warm and gentle orchestration in the background. Not too vivid, but still distinct. Not only do these words sound like heaven for romantic hearts, but Puzzle Muteson’s music is heaven for their ears as well. And fortunately,...
May 30th
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May 29th
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In the recent re-review of Dustin O’Halloran’s stunning acoustic album Vorleben, I likened its Opus 28 to the work of Philip Glass, “thanks to the flowing sound of piano; [and] moreover, Dustin evolves this song in the same direction Glass would do.” On Vorleben, this beautifully vivacious piece was performed on piano solely, but in the live footage from HBC Berlin,...
May 28th
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May 26th
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May 25th
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May 24th
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When initially writing about Tropic Of Cancer’s new EP, I described its opening song A Color as “coldly stark and bit frightening.” Blackness and mystic darkness were mentioned too. Now, new video to A Color (made by Rachel Evans) just emphasizes their aim to cause unease and uncertainty. Camella Lobo’s reverberated vocals, impossible to decode, are aptly visualized through bunch of cold,...
May 23rd
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Det Vackra Livet are another appealing signee to Swedish imprint Labrador, home for musicAddicted’s beloved The Radio Dept., dream poppers Sambassadeur and indie rockers [ingenting]. Brothers Philip and Henrik Ekström create shiny, vivacious pop with nicely layered and reverberated guitars, softly ringing synthesizers topped by soulful vocals. True to the name, The Beautiful Life, their...
May 21st
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May 20th
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May 18th
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Dustin O’Halloran: Painter of piano calmness
Dustin O’Halloran is an American composer of piano music balancing somewhere between contemporary classic and chamber pop. He compares his works to colours and defines the emotions evaporating from his songs as a collage of blue, violet with white spaces and small black elements poured by rusty brown. Besides these calming colours there are many meditative pictures and dreams present....
May 18th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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There is something incredibly blue in Sindri Már Sigfússon’s soft voice who performs as Sin Fang. It’s not mourn or weepy sadness that induces his neat melancholy; rather, it may be a combination of gentle intonation, whispery tenor and calm vocal execution that even multiply Sin Fang’s inherent sorrow. This feeling of serene sadness is amazingly expressed in a simple, but...
May 10th
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May 8th
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Jóhann Jóhannsson, Icelandic acclaimed composer, is back with new album, The Miner’s Hymns (out on May 23rd, via Fat-Cat). This new piece is a score to the same-named movie which is a patchwork of old film footages from North East England capturing declining coal miner’s industry. While all the visual work was done by excellent experimentalist Bill Morrison, the music background which...
May 7th
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May 5th
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May 4th
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Kyle Bobby Dunn: Pastoral, harmonious beauty
Abstract, non-linear and atonal music are in their cryptic, demanding nature probably easiest to understand through visualization. Tones and harmonies evoke numerous images - often very vague and incoherent - that work together with just a great amount of fantasy and deep love for loose-textured music. Obviously, tones that are floating in musical vacuum for several minutes and harmonies that...
May 3rd
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May 1st
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