Reviews

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      Weekend. ANDREW HAYLECK (Winds Measure Recordings 2011) For this work Andrew Hayleck, sound artist from Baltimore Maryland, works under a very interesting premisse: he explores how he’d hear things if he was an insect. He takes in consideration that sound…

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    Donadea forest. TOM LAWRENCE (Touch 2008) Tom Lawrence, who died unexpectedly in October 2011, had begun to make a significant impact in the field recording community with his excellent work Water Beetles of Pollardstown Fen, released on Gruenrekorder. He also…

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    Lignes d’erre & randons. KASSEL JAEGER (Unfathomless 2010) I had never listened to any of Kassel Jaeger’s works before approaching to “Lignes d’erre & randons” and after just a couple of listenings I was completely blown away. Working with natural…

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    L-C (loop-coil). DARIUS CIUTA (Impulsive Habitat 2011) This release is a tricky butterfly to catch and pin down. Despite several listens (it’s quite long at nigh on an hour in duration) to me it remains elusive, and that is an…

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    Where once we walked. MARK PETER WRIGHT (Another Space 2011) “Where once we walked” is Mark Peter Wright’s commissioned specific ode/tribute to child survivors who escaped in extremis from Holocaust by being harbored in Cumbria (Lake District), in Britain on…

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      St Livres, Switzerland, Binaural Phonographic Documentary. DALLAS SIMPSON (Green Field Recordings 2011) St Livres, Switzerland, Binaural Phonographic Documentary by Dallas Simpson is a phonographic documentary entirely recorded with binaural in-ear mics that give a personal perspective of the location.…