by eyes cast down | Apr 4, 2011 | Album Reviews
On Soniq Variants (Harmonic Resonance Recordings), Alpha Wave Movement (Gregory Kyryluk), delivers an hour of vintage electronic and atmospheric delights. Working mostly with vintage Ensoniq synths (VFX-SD (modified to SD-1), ESQ-1 and SQ-R+), Greg presents an...
by eyes cast down | Mar 28, 2011 | Album Reviews
Ari Porki has just released Dimension, his first album with the Hungarian netlabel Limitless. Over eight tracks spanning 53 minutes, Ari channels the northern seasons of his native Finland. Like his predecessor, Jean Sibelius, he skillfully evokes their extremes of...
by eyes cast down | Mar 22, 2011 | Album Reviews
Bob Ohrum, whose 2010 release Elevated I recently reviewed, returns with a reissue of his 2005 album Subliminal Listening, also on the Relaxed Machinery label. This album is Bob’s love letter to his hometown of Buffalo, NY. It plays like an urban version of the...
by eyes cast down | Mar 16, 2011 | Album Reviews
Lucette Bourdin’s 2010 album Horse Heaven, her seventh release on the Earth Mantra netlabel, is excellently described on the album’s release page as one of Lucette’s most mystical, intimate, reflective and spiritual albums. At the same time, it...
by eyes cast down | Mar 10, 2011 | Poems
We end this cycle the way we began, with a fascinating but tortured personality. From my first reading of John Nathan’s biography of Yukio Mishima, the legendary Japanese writer haunted me for years. I read over a dozen of his novels in translation including, of...