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Iosonouncane :: Zustissia
Film score: Iosonouncane on the Zuncheddu case, titled like a court file.
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Records are followed back into the things that made them: rooms, instruments, damaged tape, field recordings, weather, family histories and particular stretches of land. Folk, ambient, experimental music, electronics and song meet here without a fixed hierarchy. Hwael listens closely to the music, and to everything that has entered the recording with it.
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Ex:Re :: Save As
Art pop: Elena Tonra’s second Ex:Re album keeps its demos inside the finished songs.
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MANAS :: The most yielding thing in the world will overcome the most rigid
Experimental: MANAS turn a film score and a line of Lao Tzu into a duo record.
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Sam Grassie :: Grassie & Band, live
Folk blues live set: a fingerstyle guitarist hands his songs to a band.
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Clara Mann :: Wishbone
Folk ballads on trust: Clara Mann stops carrying her songs alone.
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Bow and Arrow :: Bow and Arrow
Devotional folk and electronics: repetition has to earn every return.
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Wendy Eisenberg :: Wweennddyy Eeiisseennbbeerrgg
Experimental folk: two memory songs stretched until the band becomes the form.
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Eric Angelo Bessel :: Illusion of an Inland Ocean
Ambient from a Mellotron, a field job in Oregon and the inland side of a coast.
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From A Harbour Softly Drawn :: Shepherds
Ambient jazz: a summer of attic sessions with friends, resampled years later.
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Polonius :: Anaxia (Original Soundtrack)
Film score and cassette fantasy: Polonius builds Razooli’s Oskexis out of tape.
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Darren Hayman :: I’m Your Team
Pop elegy: Darren Hayman makes three discarded machines learn to stay.
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devonwho :: tv2
Drumless electronica: devonwho lets arpeggios do the work of the beat.