Mar 18, 2013 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
[Translated excerpts from the original German review] “Off, as with the two preceding parts [In & On], is available as a download & a stylishly designed CD-R in digipak on Australian label Hidden Shoal Recordings… Markus Mehr, a native of Augsburg,...
Mar 5, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“…I would almost hesitate to call this new release post-rock. Post-rock music in its purest form is highly processed and heavily distorted instrumental rock music that more often than not hints at a coming apocalypse. Apricot Rail has crafted an...
Mar 5, 2013 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
“The suffused and vaguely crepuscolar opening on gentle piano strokes and thin chinks of the initial “Velar” and the charmingly rustic twining of string saw, warm deep tones, accordion and banjo flowerheads, a dainty percussive nixer on the following...
Mar 5, 2013 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“Third part of the Augsburg-based ambient composer’s conceptual trilogy (following In and On), which consists of a single 42 minute opus. It’s hard to do justice to the range of sounds you’ll find here – tremendous, rumbling, industrial atmospherics forming most...
Feb 26, 2013 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
“Years ago, I had a college professor who described the effect of words in poetry as taking one palmful of rose petals, which have their own scent, and one palmful of some other flower petals, rubbing them together and then opening your hands again to discover...
Feb 16, 2013 | Apricot Rail Reviews, Reviews
“After almost four years, post-rock sextet Apricot Rail have put twelve more tracks to record. Fronted by Ambrose Nock, Rail’s eponymous debut back in 2008 hurled like a bolt into an explosion of acclaim; the afterglow of which gradually dimmed into an Apricot...
