Ears For Eyes

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3172292427/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=3/transparent=true/A deep-space probe beams back the latest OH/EX/OH album from the Oort Cloud.  The extreme distance entails a lengthy downloading time of several decades.  In the intervening years between its initial arrival and its sonic tail crashing into the hard-drives of the automated laboratory equipment absorbing its weak signal, wars, droughts, and political upheavals have… Continue reading OH/EX/OH – New Horizon (no label) →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3553276212/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=1/transparent=true/The Chapel Yard label’s most recent release is ‘Fallen’, a 25 minute single-track collaboration between Raining Leaf and Wizards Tell Lies.  It awakes with tenuous sonar traces, like a musical substance hunted and pursued, a submarine sweeping an oceanic trench, stumbling upon a whistling tone of unnatural beauty.  Echoing guitar lines are cut through with… Continue reading Raining Leaf / Wizards Tell Lies – Fallen (Chapel Yard) →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1765258135/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=3/transparent=true/‘Nails’ is the second album from Predicate; a band led by Alex Ward (guitar), and featuring Tim Hill (alto, baritone, and sopranino sax), Mark Sanders (drums), and Dominic Lash (double bass).  The first piece launches straight into Ward’s contorted riffing, a dense thicket of sharp needle points, molten string bending eruptions, and thrashing violence; Sanders… Continue reading Predicate – Nails (Gaffer Records) →

Ears For Eyes, finding itself unable to attend this by all accounts thunderously good gig, is extremely pleased to host the wonderful pictures of Dawid Laskowski.  His work will hopefully feature in future live reviews.  Readers of this blog will know of the awesomeness of N.E.W; they are one of the very best improvising groups currently operating and are… Continue reading Picture gallery by Dawid Laskowski: N.E.W. live at Cafe Oto, 7th March 2014 →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1815578246/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=1/transparent=true/‘IKB’ is the second release by Solvognen for Disco Insolence following a spilt-tape with Chaz Dolo last year.  The full album treatment suits this artist, allowing them to display a variety of interesting sounds.  ‘Vermillion’ has something of the all-surface sense-rush of Oneohtrix Point Never but with less of the plush plasticity, this is gnarlier… Continue reading Solvognen – IKB (Disco Insolence) →

There is a collection of amazing non-genre electronics-focussed music coalescing around various sonic nodal points at the moment: the Outer Church club night in Brighton; London’s Horse Hospital venue; several labels - Exotic Pylon, The Geography Trip, Front & Follow; the ‘Down to the Silver Sea’ compilation; and the ‘Collision/Detection’ EP series.  All these places… Continue reading Time Attendant – Treachorous Orb (More Than Human) →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1666704962/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=3/transparent=true/A brief missive from dusty corridors, ‘A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints’ finds Black Classical summoning haunting and desolate piano rumblings, obscured by vinyl crackle and tape hiss.  Desolate and lonely, the music sounds dredged rather than recorded, scooped from a fallow existence on some forgotten floor; discovered on… Continue reading Black Classical – A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints (self released) →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4131129429/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=1/transparent=true/‘Large Electric Ensemble’ by Ex-Easter Island Head comprises four movements of no-wave infused chamber klang-symphony; lushly realised and rich in reverberating overtones.  The album was recorded live over two days with local Nottingham musicians after a commission from the World Event Young Artist festival; this piece has evolved from its first inception, debuted at the… Continue reading Ex-Easter Island Head – Large Electric Ensemble (Low Point) →

http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1846134349/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/t=2/transparent=true/Electronica imbued with the outdoors; tunes structured like a lattice of bare branches; clicks, beats, ticks, all settling in place like rain on a pond, a sympathetic clash of complex ripples, a chaotic natural order; ‘Low Fantasy EP’ by The Resource Centre is a masterpiece.Opening song ‘Low Fantasy’ introduces this EP perfectly; spooky frosted folkish… Continue reading The Resource Centre – Low Fantasy EP (The Geography Trip) →