June 2011
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“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is...”
– James Joyce: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man
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Marcus Fjellström: In Between Darkness
Marcus Fjellström, Swedish composer and multimedia artist, can’t hide his inclination to cinema and theater in his imaginative music. After last year’s landmark Schattenspieler, an extraordinary release on Norwegian label Miasmah, he put together a pastiche of eighteen fragments under the concept called Library Music. Noir, dramatic and brisk emotions are inseparable part of his...
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Lamb: 5 (review) →
Fans of Lou Rhodes and Andy Barlow’s electronic duo would argue that, in the mid- to late-’90s, Lamb were to drum and bass what Portishead were to a peculiarly English branch of hip hop. Their signature sound twinned Barlow’s chilly beats and wild percussion with Rhodes’s reflective lyrics and idiosyncratic singing, a strange symbiosis achieved only through a continuous process of quarrelling....
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WatchGrouper’s music has always been a mixture of uncertainty, gloominess and imminent sadness with occasional trips to thrill. Droning guitar, undecipherable, buried vocals and reverberated musical mass are Liz Harris’ most recognizable characteristic. Still, her darkness and mystery are narcotic, almost hallucinating, but not subduing or dolorous. This has changed with this new video for...
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WatchErik K Skodvin finally decided to release an album under his own name after several years of different projects (Deaf Center) and monikers (Svarte Greiner). Although Flare, his debut for Sonic Pieces, was released in silence and without much attention from alternative media, it broke many dark hearts, among others, musicAddicted’s too (read my review in Slovak). Skodvin’s more acoustic...
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Donato Wharton: Silence and space
Donato Wharton’s new piece of music can be best described with words like subtle, spare, tacit. This Cardiff-born artist is artistically more focused on production for theatre and sound designing and therefore he comes just rarely with his own solo material. If you expect theatric grotesque or cinematic landscape, A White Rainbow Spanning The Dark will surprise you. Warton’s new EP doesn’t...
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WatchThere was written quite a lot about Kyle Bobby Dunn’s music on this blog, but relentless nature of this young artist always ends up in new article on his work. However, for the first time, it’s a video contribution. At first, Canyon Meadows served as an appetizer before releasing his new full-length, Ways Of Meaning. After listening to this album in its entirety, Canyon Meadows turned...
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