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Under the Island: A Compilation of Experimental Music in Ireland 1960-1994 – CD/digital (Nyahh Records 2023)

04/10/2023 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This compilation is a multigenerational exploration of fringe recordings by Irish artists and the result of very deep digging into the dertritus of recorded sound. Some of these people I’m …

Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Irish Music / Jazz / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise

ZEROPUNKT (formerly ¡NO!) – Bitch Nails – digital single (self-released 2019)

02/03/201902/03/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

When you are willfully divergent and askew to the point that logic dictates your bandname as ¡NO!, its ungooglability is going to bite you sooner or later. In my clunky …

Ambient / Experimental / Folk / Irish Music / modern classical / New Reviews / Noise / Prog

MICHAEL O’SHEA – Michael O’Shea – vinyl reissue (Allchival 2018)

24/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

All City Records continues its worthy Allchival series with a long overdue reissue of the one and only album by street musician Michael O’Shea, originally released in 1982. Beyond the …

Electronic / Experimental / Industrial / Martial / modern classical / New Reviews

LAIBACH – The Sound Of Music (2018 MUTE RECORDS)

21/12/201821/12/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

Strange is the world of Laibach that it has taken 3 years for an audio document of this project to emerge. Given the publicity surrounding Laibach’s high adventures in the …

Ambient / Electronic / modern classical / New Reviews

HAWKSMOOR – HAWKSMOOR (Negative Drive Records 2018)

27/03/201827/03/2018 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

As a long-term enthusiast of what could be loosely termed Berlin school electronics, my ears are constantly peeled for contemporary material observing the original gene pool as a reference point, …

Ambient / Electronic / modern classical / Music / New Reviews / Reviews

LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET – Landfall (Nonesuch Records 2018)

15/03/201812/02/2019 - by bozmugabe - Leave a Comment

This is an exciting prospect. Kronos Quartet was always one of those entities that just kept popping up on my radar, not because (at least initially) I went looking for …