textura

Albums
Alejandro & Aeron
Balustrade Ensemble
Jeremy Bible
F.S. Blumm
Cadence Weapon
Cataclyst
Cepia
Chloé
Cooler
Disinterested
edIT
Erik Enocksson
For Barry Ray
Ernest Gonzales
Grand National
Hakobune
Halou
Frode Haltli
Arve Henriksen
Ielasi & Ratti
Jumpel
Lawrence
Lickets
Manual
Melodium
Mono
My Fun
Marissa Nadler
Prints
Rekalix
Remote_ vs Ontayso
Will Saul
Sixtoo
Small Sails
Songs Of Green Pheasant
Christian Wallumrød
White Rainbow
Xeltrei
Yndi Halda

Compilations / Mixes
Paolo Mojo
Ewan Pearson
VA: 5 Years Get Physical
VA: Monza Vol. 2
VA: U-cover mix 01 [a]
VA: U-cover mix 02 [d]

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Ateleia
Pier Bucci
Cio D'Or
Cloudland Canyon
Curium
Laurine Frost
Dave Graham
Hakobune
The Infant Cycle
Lerosa
Lullaby Leagure
Mole Harness
Mowbray & Sullivan
Ontayso
School of Seven Bells
Science Teacher
Sleep Robot
Unwed Sailor
VA: Spies & Lies
Rick Wade

Cloudland Canyon: Silver Tongued Sisyphus
kranky

Cloudland Canyon's spectacularly-titled EP, Silver Tongued Sisyphus, offers a foretaste of the alchemical magic no doubt to come on the duo's upcoming kranky full-length (scheduled for an early 2008 release). A natural follow-up to its Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004 album, the EP finds Kip Uhlhorn and Simon Wojan surrendering to their music's hallucinatory pull in two trippy, long-form excursions. “Dambala” opens the set in a relentlessly churning state of hot-wired, serpentine restlessness, with looping rhythms intensifying and decompressing as they're shattered by guitar ruptures and cathedralesque organ flourishes; during its second half, “Dambala” metamorphosizes into a synthesizer-driven mix of blinding patterns and soaring string tones equally rooted in German Krautrock and classical Minimalism. The title piece awakens slowly with sparkling glissandi patterns but quickly works up a propulsive steam of mellotron haze, drums, and chanted vocals. The second piece is the more disorienting and feverish of the two, and rather more unhinged and psychedelic. The material here bodes well for what one anticipates will be an even more dizzying and transporting full-length.

October 2007