Monthly Archives: February 2015

amm | ammmusic (1966)

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Ed Howard

This extraordinary debut has become a legend, and with good reason. The importance of AMMMusic is difficult to overstate, particularly when considered as a prescient forerunner to certain strains of electroacoustic improvisation that would develop at the end of the … Continue reading →

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éric la casa / taku unami | parazoan mapping (2015)

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Ed Howard

Here’s another challenging, provocative album from the recent Erstwhile Records batch. Like a lot of records in this area of late, it’s a tricky blend of styles and approaches, seemingly highly conceptual in nature but without spelling out what its … Continue reading →

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graham lambkin / michael pisaro | schwarze riesenfalter (2015)

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Ed Howard

Lambkin and Pisaro are two of the most exciting musicians around, albeit in very different ways and for very different reasons. There is, on the surface, a sizeable gap between Lambkin’s raw, intense sound collages and the more studied, rigorous … Continue reading →

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