#452

Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi - Each side has a depth of 5 seconds · A polka dot pattern in horizontal array · A flickering that moves vertically (Black Truffle)



The resulting music is sparser and lighter in an immediate musical sense, but emotionally heavier as serrated, squiggly noises traverse over and collide with modulating static and trembling low frequencies. — Antonio Poscic

#451

Consorts - Distinctions (Spoonhunt)



His orchestral approach is inspired, with a focus on particular combinations of voices – bowed strings, bass clarinet, mysterious amplified scritches at one point, fluttering electronics and braying baritone saxophones at another – while the combined mass of the full ensemble looms in and out of view. — Stewart Smith