Feb 3, 2016 | Reviews, Todd Tobias Reviews
Todd Tobias isn’t new to SRM, I have very fond memories of listening to his Calvino-inspired album, Impossible Cities. Therefore, I entered listening to this album with some rather high expectations, which I am glad to report were not dashed in the slightest. The long, winding songs are all sublimely amorphous soundscapes. It is astounding how much weight is packed into every one of them despite their relatively sparse composition. It causes a transformative affect to occur in the diligent listener, altering mundane happenings into something absolutely poetic. For my second listen I sat on my balcony on a cloudy morning, watching birds peck around for food. With the help of Tobias’s music, it was pretty damn epic.
Feb 3, 2016 | Medard Fischer Reviews, Reviews
Whichever point in day you choose to listen to Medard Fischer’s Four Songs for the City of New York will simply be the most beautiful 18 minutes of your day. Moving neo-classical tinted with the soft light of ambient, these are graceful and gorgeous comments that, though brief, come through with strong, human resonance.
Feb 3, 2016 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
We discover Markus Mehr with this live album, a live transcription of the Off album which concluded the trilogy In / On / Off published between January 2012 and January 2013 through Hidden Shoal Recordings. The concert was recorded in November 2012 as part of the festival Time Zones Bari (Italy) that will have its 30th anniversary this year.
Jan 25, 2016 | Reviews, Todd Tobias Reviews
Once the conceptual track permeates a Todd Tobias album, which after producing and starred opposite Robert Pollard, has now dropped steadily in the instrumental composer robes.
If ” Impossible Cities ” (2014) retraced “Invisible Cities” by Calvino, “Tristes Tropiques” echoes the melancholy tropical namesake of Claude Levi Strauss essay
Jan 22, 2016 | Antonymes Reviews, Cheekbone Reviews, Chloë March Review, Elisa Luu Reviews, Erik Nilsson Reviews, Gilded Reviews, Kryshe Reviews, Markus Mehr Reviews, Medard Fischer Reviews, My Majestic Star Reviews, Reviews, Sleeping Me Reviews, Slow Dancing Society Reviews, Todd Tobias Reviews
“I am an unabashed Hidden Shoal fan. The Australian label has been pumping out releases of lush, cinematic aspirations of ambient and neo-classical artists for a better part of it’s existence that, at times, is overcome by its eclectic output ranging from...
Jan 21, 2016 | Kramies Reviews, Reviews
Dutch-American Kramies Windt has presented his romantic, big-and-open-hearted pop songs through a line of fine EPs: The European (2011); The Wooden Heart (2013, promoted by its title track The Wooden Heart); and the splendid The Folklore Sessions (2014). This spring, Kramies launched a brand new single, The Fate That Never Favored Us (produced by Jason Lytle) before he went on tour in France and recorded this live EP called Forêts Antiques.
