Nov 6, 2012 | Reviews, Slow Dancing Society Reviews
“Any artist five albums into a particular project might start getting restless and be tempted to change things up. But often doing so betrays the fundamental integrity of said project and the move ends up being a diminishment rather than enhancement. In that...
Oct 31, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
“Two old hands, post-rock deconstructor Adam Trainer and ambient guru Matt Rosner, have come together to form something new as Gilded. Whilst clearly not setting out to reinvent the wheel of experimental music, the merging of their two sympathetic skill sets –...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
I’m no geologist, but thanks to a bit of search-engine scholarship I can now tell you that a “terrane” is a land-mass phenomenon where a tectonic plate breaks off and fuses with another, leaving a fault-line where the two bits of Earth-crust have “sutured.” The...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
Piano. Bowed metal. Percussion. Repetition. Space. Texture… These are our basic ingredients; our oil, salt, pepper, spice, flour, water. We can draw on one tradition, or another – personal, geographic, familial. Our tools, our skillets, griddles, pans; these are our...
Oct 12, 2012 | Gilded Reviews, Reviews
Sometimes I’m unsure exactly where to start with writing about an album. On other occasions, the band/musicians make things if not exactly easy then perhaps at least partially apparent, signposting their music through identifiable types of genre and style, and...
Oct 12, 2012 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt (translated from the German): “On his new album On, Markus Mehr proves that he is a master of a variety of electronic styles. The sounds are so varied, from quiet, undulating movements to unclassifiable industrial sounds. The eight instrumental pieces...
