Articles
Robert Henke
Deepchord and Soultek

Albums
Amoebazoid
Boy Is Fiction
BTB
Calika
Vic Chesnutt
Enrico Coniglio
Eric Copeland
Deadbeat
Deepchord : Echospace
Ditch
Terrence Dixon
Brian Ellis
Reinhold Friedl
The Green Kingdom
Marc Hannaford
Hrsta
K. Leimer
Lights Out Asia
Nebula 3
Netherworld
Le Peuplier de Simon
Po
Portable
Lou Reed
Jeffrey Roden
Skallander
Swod
Gregory Taylor
Telephone Jim Jesus
Pau Torres
Tunng
Rolan Vega
Robert Vincs
Warmth
Otomo Yoshihide

Compilations / Mixes
Sander Kleinenberg
One Point Two
Total 8

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
Adultnapper
Arrow!!!
Ascoltare
Beneva vs. Clark Nova
Cinematic Orchestra
Deepchord : Echospace
Easy Changes
Fink
Peter Grummich
The Heavy
Isomer Transition
Laptik
Larytta
Nadja
Pendle Coven
Polvere
Redhooker
Spied
Andy Stott
Torrance & Hochstrate
Andy Vaz

Polvere: Polvere
Minority Records

The material on Polvere's self-titled 10-inch exemplifies the kind of experimental open-endedness one associates with Matmos and a psychedelic folk-blues style one sometimes encounters on kranky releases by artists like Lichens and Bird Show. Italian avant-gardists Xabier Iriondo (A Short Apnea, Uncode Duello) and Mattia Coletti (Christa Pfangen, Sedia), who recorded the disc's six electro-acoustic collages following a two-week Japan tour, often anchor their tracks with acoustic guitar motifs and then dirty them up with multiple layers of free-spirited mayhem. In the opener “Rumors Around Polvere,” ukulele plucks and strums collide with the sour squawk of an electric guitar army and drums, while 1920s Japanese records get taken for a sped-up spin on “78 [Traditional],” with female chipmunk vocalizing the result. “...And If You Slam the Door [To Fabio Magistrali]” pushes Polvere's sound furthest towards psychedelic folk-blues, especially when its hot-wired base of bells and squealing whistles escalates into a drum-battering wail at its close. It's a limited vinyl release (500 copies only) so move quickly if electro-acoustic experimentalism's your thing.

September 2007