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Review: Cisfinitum - Devotio (2006)

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artist: Cisfinitum release: Devotio format: 10″ year of release: 2006 label: Substantia Innominata duration: 23:49

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One of the ways in which experimental music can be thought-provoking is to take a familiar sound source and bend, stretch, twist or mangle it until it achieves a whole new level of expression. Listening to such [...]

Review: Birch Book - Volume III: A Hand Full of Days (2009)

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artist: Birch Book release: Volume III: A Hand Full of Days format: CD, LP year of release: 2009 label: Little Somebody (CD), Ahnstern (LP) duration: 60:41

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After releasing the excellent second Birch Book album in 2007, and a couple of successful tours with the likes of Woven Hand, Faun, and Sieben, it [...]

In Memoriam: Arjen Grolleman (August 22nd 1972- January 20th 2010)

Only recently, after reading his necrology for a local bookstore, we complimented him on the way he was able to fill such memorial texts with true poetry and touching words. “Yes,” he said, “but why does it always have to be necrologies?” Perhaps because we only realise what we’ve lost [...]

Review: Rose Rovine e Amanti - Demian (2009)

artist: Rose Rovine E Amanti release: Demian format: CD year of release: 2009 label: Cold Spring duration: 42:52

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Recorded in Rome in 2008, Demian is the second full length album by Rose Rovine E Amanti (mastermind: Damiano Mercuri) on Cold Spring Records. The album collects ten tracks of hot-blooded neofolk with a [...]

Review: Seasonal Sevens: Summer & Autumn (2009)

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artist: Emily Scott / Hélène Renaut; Pamela Wyn Shannon / The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree release: Seasonal Sevens: Summer; Autumn format: 7″ year of release: 2009 label: Autumn Ferment duration: 6:27; 5:55

detailed info: discogs.com (summer; autumn)

The Seasonal Sevens are a series of 7″ double A-sides released by Autumn Ferment Records. Starting [...]

State-X New Forms presents first 10-inch: Machinist & Mendel Kaelen / Boom Boom du Terre

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The State-X New Forms festival for experimental music, based in The Hague, introduced its very own band and artist contest in 2009: X-Vektor. Two aspiring Dutch artists were the winners of the contest, and the reward was not only a performance on the festival itself, last December, but [...]