IN THE NUMBERS: It’s 03/03, double digits as it were. So why not celebrate, for no reason. For the first time we are leading with not one, but three simultaneous podcasts, over three hours of new music from multiple continents! The moods may sway, but if you keep your ears open you will be transported […]
Here we open a new week, and hopefully your ears, by continuing to keep cool and somewhat collected. But what you don’t hear you may only imagine. Let’s keep it that simple. TRACKLIST Nurse With Wound/The James Worse Public Address Method – Suspific Hellibesque Of The Poagenbloke Matt Shoemaker – mercurial horizon one Imbued Vagary […]
This is, I hope you don’t mind me saying, an extremely eclectic selection of works that were recently released while some are sneak peeks (er earfuls) slowly being rolled out between now and March. Enclosed are tracks that will beguile some, tease and taunt of distant pop, digital disturbances, edited field recordings and other radio-like […]
Hosoo | MistLine (DL) Mist (유백색 안개) is a series of improvisations (as pages) made up of a combination of multiple instruments, samples and processes by South Korean duo Hosoo (Hohyun Baek and Woongsoo Byun). Their name is derived from 호수 which can mean both ‘lake’ and ‘room number’ in their tongue. This has elements […]
This week we have just released Episode 10 of our weekly podcast (sixteen in all with the Origins subseries, and others to come). You are welcome to listen (above) and please let us know what you think by Following the podcast or Sharing on your social media. We dug deep into the latest and forthcoming […]
Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid | SûrLine (DL) Nothing is more frustrating for this reviewer than being aware of a release’s historical and technical details, yet finding the content inscrutable despite the reiteration of the listening experience. But this is exactly what is happening with Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid’s Sûr, which I have been absorbing throughout the last days. The […]
Pinkcourtesyphone + Gwyneth WentinkWhen She Had No Mirror… She Watched Her Shadow Line (DL) Pinkcourtesyphone is the sonic alter ego of Richard Chartier. His abilities in redesigning a listening space to enhance its characteristics have impressed time and again, either in solitude or across disparate partnerships. For instance, the one with analogue synth specialist Eleh: […]
Six Microphones (Robert Gerard Pietrusko) | Six MicrophonesLine/Counter Audition (DL/2xLP) Six Microphones is being co-released on Line (download) and on double milky white vinyl via Counter Audition. Massachusetts-based landscape architecture professor and composer Robert Gerard Pietrusko has created something of an anomaly of feedback for installation and it’s quite unique in terms of its minimalist […]
Valerio Camporini F. | Multitemporal Designs Line (DL) Roman artist Valerio Camporini F. has been involved as a label runner, in interactive projects, soundtracks and other collaborations. Multitemporal Designs was mastered by Stephan Mathieu and poses some big conceptual questions about: “Impossible devices, made with metallic spheres weighting a tonne, hitting 100 meters long strings, […]
An On Bast | Nothing Shapes Everything Marcus Fischer + Burke Jam | Vanitas øjeRum | on the swollen lips of the horizon Sonmi451 | Nachtmuziek Sven Laux + Daniela Orvin | The Writings Ambient is nothing new and its true roots are likely a bit of a mystery, cast in the shadows between a […]
Yves De Mey | SuedaLine (DL) It’s nice to see Yves De Mey returning to the LINE imprint. His previous work with the label, Lichtung, was a single long form piece that was the original score for a dance solo. This new album finds the Belgian artist exploring the robust sound world of FM and […]
Duenn | BgmLine (DL) “Sound soaking in excellence” Though it goes without saying, Japanese electronic music in all it’s sub-genres, is a treasure trove of gems. Our world would not be the same without the involvement and the contribution of Japanese artists in every discipline! Duenn, hailing from Fukuoka, Japan, is a sound artist, […]
Monty Adkins Empire (Line, DL) Still Juniper Snow (Huddersfield Contemporary Records, CD/DL) This month sees two releases featuring British sound artist Monty Adkins, both finding their origins and inspiration in the visual arts. Empire, released on Richard Chartier’s LINE imprint, attempts to create a soundtrack to Andy Warhol’s famous black and white silent film of […]
Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid Sustain (Line; DL) This three track full length by Argentine artist Joaquín Gutiérrez Hadid will be out on August 30th. It’s quite invisible at first, but el dorado slowly opens with a wee twinkle of electronic shimmer and a few pops. Clocking in with a running time of nearly twenty minutes the […]
pinkcourtesyphone Romantic Threat EP (Line; DL) pinkcourtesyphone is not necessarily the softer side of Richard Chartier, quite the contrary. Don’t let the feminine mystique and hex-toned cover fool you, this is the funkier (though not so much here), more melodic alter ego of the man behind the Line imprint. The ep is a spin-off of […]
Just out is an EP by Italian trio Triac (Rossano Polidoro, Marco Seracini, Augusto Tatone), Departure on Richard Chartier’s fine Line (Digital only). This is their fourth release (mini and full releases), and from the start of Departure One (of five similar excursions) we are let go into an ambient cloud of pure light. The […]
For two decades Richard Chartier has been releasing minimal sound art that has ranged from nearly inaudible sine waves to the flounce and circumstance of smart post-techno records from his alter ego, Pinkcourtesytelephone. Here, on his respectable LINE imprint of sound art editions comes his tribute to a peer in the industry who we lost […]
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