HUMANBEING

The Italian composer-keyboardist Rossano Baldini's HUMANBEING project is part Aphex Twin-inspired electronica, part chamber acoustic and is much closer to...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Free Nelson Mandoomjazz: The Organ Grinder

Patrick Darley | Rebecca Sneddon | Paul Archibald | Luc Klein | Colin Stewart

All credit to RareNoise who continue to give voice to bands that roam like rogue asteroids between planets jazz, rock...

Reviewed in issue November/2016

Spin Marvel: Infolding

Nils Petter Molvær | Tim Harries | Nils Petter Molvaer | Martin France | Terje Evensen

So prolific are RareNoise's releases you can miss the quality amid the quantity, but there's no doubting the Genoa-based label...

Reviewed in issue March/2015

Indigo Mist: That the Days Go By and Never Come Again

Cuong Vu | Joshua Parmenter | Shih-Wei Lo | Richard Karpen | Luke Berman | Ted Poor | Douglas Niemela | Ivan Arteaga

There's nothing that whets the appetite for digging into a new release quite like discovering that it features a ‘live...

Reviewed in issue August/2014

Brainkiller: Colourless Green Superheroes

Coppe | Hernan Hecht | Jacob Koller | Brian Allen

Colourless Green Superheroes follows faithfully in the footsteps of Brainkiller’s Rare Noise debut, The Infiltrator. Detailed, even joyous themes and...

Reviewed in issue September/2013

Berserk: Berserk!

Lorenzo Feliciati | Jamie Saft | Fabrizio Puglisi | Cristiano Calcagnile | Sandro Satta | Eivind Aarset | Gianluca Petrella | Pat Mastelotto | Simone Cavina | Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari

Berserk! is precisely that, a bonkers mix of Goth death thrash electro-opera spliced with ambient grooves. Born from a collaboration...

Reviewed in issue May/2013

Bob Belden's Animation: Transparent Heart

Jacob Smith | Bob Belden | Matt Young | Roberto Verastegui | Peter Clagett

Bob Belden's latest album might be considered programmatic or impressionistic, it might be said to employ music concrète techniques, or...

Reviewed in issue September/2012

Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie: Winter Garden

Robin Guthrie | Eraldo Bernocchi | Harold Budd

I was lucky to first hear Winter Garden while trapped in the middle of a Siberian snow storm. Just as...

Reviewed in issue April/2012