In this episode, the machines take over.
Ensemble De Cadavres Exquis / Apparitions & Phenomena
News from the Conning Tower: Micrographia
So we have a brand new release tomorrow (10th July) and it's a split release from two artists new to the submarine, qualchan and Dogs versus Shadows. The split has been named Micrographia after the book (as per Wikipedia: Micrographia or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon …
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New Release: GOATS ‘Far Out’
We've been publicising the new GOATS album for a couple of months now, so we're absolutely delighted to announce its general release. Far Out is GOATS' second album, with a change of personnel and a change of direction. The core members Alan Morse Davies and Declan Owen remain and are augmented by Jorge Mario Zuleta …
News from the Conning Tower: GOATS ‘Far Out’
Next month we have another big release, the much anticipated new album from experimental supergroup GOATS. Far Out is GOATS' second album, and it is a different beast from the first album. There has been a change of personnel, and this time the album is a single 38 minute piece; chief goat herder Alan Morse Davies …
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News from the Conning Tower: t.r. hand and Glauber K. de Souza
Ah, autumn, season of mists and mellow fruitlessness. Our release for the tail end of September is 'Suburban Solitude' from our resident mystic t.r. hand in collaboration with Glauber K. de Souza of the Amao Quartet. The album contains the field recordings and sound collages you've come to expect from t.r hand, but taken in …
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August Releases: Cottura 8 Minuti and Manipulant
Two releases this month, both somewhat unusual. First up is the various artists compilation, Cottura 8 Minuti (or C8M). This is compilation of music made in, or at least centered around, the kitchen. We'd love to take credit for C8M, but the truth is the curation and heavy-lifting was done by Lezet and Razrook, both …
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News from the Conning Tower: June releases
After the madness that was May, it has been a blessed relief to release a mere two albums in June, but blimey Charlie, what a pair of albums they are! First out of the traps was the second installment of Martin Neuhold & Friends 'Dialogue' series, cunningly entitled 'Dialogue 2'. Like the first Dialogue album, …
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Review: Pendro/Figmentland
Pendro is the name of Tim Jones' experimental music and sound design project. He released his latest album, 'Figmentland', in March. It's unapologetically experimental, but that's no left-handed compliment; it's a fiercely creative album, full of textures, cinematic sound-staging, and even emotion. It's also an album that rewards repeated listens as familiarity with the basic …
Monolith Cocktail review: Post:Soc
Monolith Cocktail’s detailed review of Post:Soc. Definitely +1hp for use of “moiety”.
NEW MUSIC REVIEW ROUNDUP
WORDS: DOMINIC VALVONA
A somewhat shorter selection but just as much quality and eclecticism, my final roundup of the year includes the cinematic pop and harrowing void explorations of Alpine Those Myriads; the latest compilations from Edinburgh label of alternative and post rock mavericks and sonic explorers, Bearsuit Records’ The Invisible & Divided Sea, and the altruistic, charity driven Submarine Broadcasting Company’s latest sprawling collection, Post:Soc; the fourth edition of Knitting Factory’s curated Fela Kuti box sets, with albums chosen by that rebel soul songstress and polymath Erykah Badu; and for the first time ever the entire – admittedly small – 1970s recorded oeuvre of one of Cameroon’s leading Gandjal rhythm providers, Hamad Kalkaba and his Golden Sounds band.
Alpine Those Myriads ‘Visions & Disorders’
See Hear Feel Smell, out now.
Set adrift out into the void, though…
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Review: Dream Topography
Rob from SBC and Beltism reviews Argali Records' new experimental compilation, Dream Topography: In the interests of full disclosure, I should point out I was delighted to have a Beltism track included on this compilation. But let's pretend I'm impartial and concentrate on the other tracks. Argali Records is the brainchild of John Lithium (aka …
