Articles
Slow Six
Label Profile: Fällt
Alexander Turnquist

Albums
4 Bonjour's Parties
AGF
Atlas Sound
Autistic Daughters
Baja
Evan Bartholomew
Sylvain Chauveau
Destroyalldreamers
DoF
Dot Tape Dot
Fessenden
Floriana vs. Màcro
Florian Hecker
I Am A Vowel
Jaermulk Manhattan
Steve Jansen
LabField
Liar's Rosebush
Eliot Lipp
Luminous
Mojib
Monocle
Nicolay & Kay
Panda Riot
Ghislain Poirier
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
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Sambassadeur
Starting Teeth
Carl Stone
Strings of Consciousness
Suite Crude Revue
Text Adventure
Alexander Turnquist
Valet
Viirus
Willits + Sakamoto
Yaporigami

Compilations/Mixes
Armin Van Buuren
Caroline
Goodbye Said the Rain
Sieben Mal Solo
A Weevil in a Biscuit

3"/ 7"/ 10"/ 12"/ EPs
0>1
A Setting Sun
The Bug ft. Warrior Queen
Myungho Choi
Deadbeat
Entsounds
Itosha
JDSY
l'Objet
Noah Pred
Repair
The Retail Sectors
Socks & Sandals
Someone Else
Trembling Blue Stars
.xtrak

Willits + Sakamoto: Ocean Fire
12k

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the one-time Yellow Magic Orchestra member celebrated for recent recordings with Alva Noto (Insen) and Fennesz (Cendre), adds another strong addition to his CV with this beautiful collaboration with innovative guitarist-sound sculptor Christopher Willits. A seven-track suite dedicated to the healing and restoration of our fragile oceans recorded live at Sakamoto's NYC studio in spring 2006, Ocean Fire may be earthbound in its thematic focus but, sonically, verges on celestial; geographical details aside, the material itself is typically immense in character. Sheets of sound dotted with pointillistic speckles of guitar swell into oceanic masses that glacially roll forth, with digital processing blending the guitar and piano into shimmering (“Toward Water”) and sometimes turbulent (“Sea Plains”) drones. Processing treatments downplay the conventionally recognizable character of the piano and guitar as the musicians' playing merges into reverberant, textural streams. With one exception, all of the pieces are eight minutes or longer, with the stirring “Ocean Sky Remains” more than eleven (the album's sole jarring moment comes with the abrupt end of the brief “Umi”). One more in a long line of superb 12k releases, Ocean Fire is a must-listen for devotees of deeply-textured ambient dronescaping

February 2008