Recommendation: Field Rotation - Acoustic Tales (2011)

Utter beauty...

Recommendation: Fugato Orchestra - Noe

Stop whatever music it is that you're listening to and play this!

Musician/Composer in the Spotlight: Annie Gosfield

Annie Gosfield is a magnificent composer and a superb manipulator of non-musical sounds into coherent musical pieces. She has an uncanny skill creating melody where one would not think it exists, using samples and industrial sounds in mixture with classical instruments. She also writes chamber and solo works.

Recommendation: Steve Martland - Horses Of Instruction (2001)

You have to at least give this a try!

Review: Breznev Fun Club - L'onda vertebrata: Lost + Found Vol. 1 (2010, AMS Records)

There are releases that I struggle to come up with adequate words that would somehow be worthy of the music. 

Usually after writing these reviews I feel lousy for not being able to match my abstract impressions of the album with the verbal and thought-processing part of my brain which seems to be incapacitated and barely capable of finding the right descriptions and praises. 

So in case it’s not clear from this review, know this – I am very impressed with this album. And I find the music on it to be as lovely as it is captivating. But know this, it takes time and concentration to fully absorb all of it. There, a direct and simple way to praise an album, bypassing all the verbose and loquacious long-winded and pompous reviewing I usually aim for.

But I can’t leave it at that, right. You may very well want to know what this sounds like? And perhaps a bit more on what I think of it, what I hear special in the music?

An early morning tune...: Hauschka - Freibad

Here's a tune called Freibad from the 2008 alum Ferndorf by Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann)