Jul 13, 2012 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
It’s a discordant and perhaps even disorienting series of sounds that open On, a combination of grinding industrial rhythms, sampled keyboard orchestrations, what I think is a Japanese Koto, shouted and unintelligible voices – as introductions go, “I’m Gonna Make You...
Jul 10, 2012 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Markus Mehr’s music is hard to pin down. It crosses through multiple genres, equally comfortable with industrial noise, lilting ambience and electronica-style sampling. On is also the second part in a triptych of albums (the previous one titled In, the next to be...
Jul 10, 2012 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Markus Mehr creates hypnotic experimental ambient music. Musical compositions that come in waves; swirling, twisting and turning quite slowly. Often pleasing, but also with noise parts that tickle and prick your skin and ears. Here are layers of sound,...
Jun 29, 2012 | Elisa Luu Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt (translated from the Italian): “While her bright debut Chromatic Sigh (2009) had all the contours of startling revelation, in the three years since that disc, the Roman artist has refined the familiar juxtaposition and manipulation of sounds… Un...
Jun 27, 2012 | Reviews, Todd Tobias Reviews
Welcome into the world of music manipulator, producer and long-time Robert Pollard collaborator Todd Tobias. Medicine Show is his solo debut of 16 instrumental tracks that will be very familiar and exciting to all the Circus Devils fans out there, perplexing to...
Jun 27, 2012 | Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
On is Mr. Mehr’s third record working under his own name; it is filled with immaculately constructed instrumentals, appointed with imaginative instrumentation and illuminating samples, that are as soothing as they are transporting. While much...
