“Erotikon” reviewed by Drowned in Sound

Perhaps it’s the time of year or my inescapable decrepitude, but the armchair seems to be my destination more often than the dancefloor right now. Maybe it’s just that a lot of superb ambient/drone/slippercore music’s being released at the moment: Black To Comm (see AD015), cacao (see below), Rameses III (see below); I could go …

Stephan Mathieu’s highlights of 2009

Musical highlights Morton Feldmans “Coptic Light” performed by the 98-piece Deutsche Radio Philharmonie directed by Emilio Pomárico on Sunday, May 24 at Congresshalle Saarbrücken Anne Rolfs aka ALLROH She, her voice, her guitar, a cranked up amp on Thursday, September 17 at Sparte4 Saarbrücken Brilliant times in Toulouse Paris Zagreb Belgrade Saarbrücken Stuttgart Aalst Kortrijk …

“Erotikon” reviewed by Earlabs

Dreamy soundscapes telling a drone love story. Music for the time of the year where loved ones crawl close to each other in the dark evenings and nights. Sometimes it occurs that with a package the weirdest liner notes come. Nothing about the music it self or anything about the process. Like with this album …

Mosaique’s highlights of 2009

Mika Vaino @ CTM Michael Vorfeld “Glühlampenmusik” @ ClubJesus Martin NG @ T.I.T.O eRikm/ Martins Tetreault @ T.I.T.O Max Richter playing live soundtrack on Derek Jarman Films @ HAU2 Phillip Glass “Echnaton” @ Parochialkirche Andy Goldsworthy “Time”/”Rivers and Tides” Simone Weil “Gravity and Grace” Michael Hanneke “The White Ribbon” Climbing the Komovi Mountains in Montenegro …

“1001 Songs of eBay” reviewed by Terz

Dieses Projekt sammelt Ebay-Userdaten, steckt sie per Audio-Transformer-Bot in Supercollider 3 und generiert so neues Audio – klingt verrückt, ist es auch, ist aber vor allem kostenlos zu hören – falls ihr die Zeit und den Nerv für dieses faszinierende und aufwändige Projekt habt. Denn es ist mit einer bisherigen Laufzeit von zwei Tagen, drei …

Ephraim Wegner’s highlights of 2009

After longer consideration I finally decided to report about the events taking place in Freiburg. Beside many projects and a Cronicaster release of the trio Skug there were two remarkable highlights in 2009: a performance in the underground car park of the University of Freiburg and developing a prologue of Georges Aperghis „Le Petit chaperon …

“Ification” reviewed by The Sound Projector

On Ification Pure works with samples gathered from real musicians including the guitarist Christoph de Babalon, the drummer Martin Brandlmayr, and bassist Anke Eckardt; plus the memorable screams of Alexandra von Bolzn. Said samples are captured into Pure’s hard drive where he can perform his experimental transformations. His strategies vary, from making a simple loop …

Piotr Kurek’s highlights of 2009

maybe not everything new but just things i liked this year… releases moondog – more moondog (honest jons, 2009), shogun kunitoki – vinonaamakasio (fonal, 2009) biosphere – wireless – live at the arnolfini (touch, 2009) vincent gallo – when (warp, 2001) sun ra – atlantis (saturn, 1967) giuseppe ileasi – axis (12k, 2009), gesellschaft zur …

Natal dos Experimentais 2009

Next Saturday December 19 at Passos Manuel, Crónica presents the 2009 edition of the Natal dos Experimentais performances. This year featuring live performances of Nuno Aroso, Durán Vázquez, @c and Pal, followed by the Crónica DJs. Entrance if free, and there will be Crónica gifts for the first to arrive.