by eyes cast down | Aug 5, 2011 | Album Reviews
Chris Russell has released his third album on the Relaxed Machinery label, and fifth overall. Home is a double-CD and definitely a significant step forward in Chris’ musical progression. It’s easily his most personal and intimate album yet – his own River...
by eyes cast down | Jul 25, 2011 | Album Reviews
John Koch-Northrup has re-released his album Temporal Arc on his own Relaxed Machinery label (rM_0002). Originally released in 2001 under his Interstitial alter ego on the Red Antenna label, the album finally comes home under John’s own name, heralding the end...
by eyes cast down | Jul 11, 2011 | Album Reviews
What is Memory? is the fifth collaboration between Disturbed Earth (Dean Richards) and Steve Brand, following a trilogy (Broken Gold, Busy With Dreams and The Rest of Time) and followup album (The First Day Unnamed). See their Bandcamp pages… This release is a...
by eyes cast down | Jun 24, 2011 | Album Reviews
Lost Links (Relaxed Machinery 0018) is a new collection of “lost pieces” from ambient-electronic wizard Max Corbacho, created during 2003-09 for other albums, but left out “for various reasons”. Fortunately, Max saved them for another day....
by eyes cast down | Jun 6, 2011 | Intrinsic Beauty
What is it about a sunrise or sunset that attracts us? What is it about a particular piece of music that makes us feel at peace, grounded, and uplifted? What is it that we love about being out in nature? It’s easy – banal, even – to say there is beauty in all of...
by eyes cast down | May 21, 2011 | Working That Studio
Two years ago, a friend of mine committed suicide at the age of 43. When I found out, I knew at once that I would have to deal with the shock by shaping it into music. Shock was far from being my only response to this disaster. Grief – of course, for this was a...
by eyes cast down | May 13, 2011 | Album Reviews
Steve Brand has just released a remastered edition of his 2008 release SoulSpiral, the first offering on his own Pioneer Light label. On the album’s initial release, Steve wrote: “SoulSpiral represents a new phase of work for me, in which I felt the desire...
by eyes cast down | Apr 28, 2011 | Album Reviews
I think Max Corbacho is driven by a love of life’s great mysteries. His music is fully informed and animated by this, by (as I’m hearing it) a quest for something transcendent, something far beyond our conventional, mundane states of being. I believe that,...
by eyes cast down | Apr 18, 2011 | Album Reviews
Russian atmospheric maestro Rudy Ensueno released Domestic Aerospace in mid-December 2010. Its ten pieces, ranging from under four to over twelve minutes, are very distinct from each other, their titles ranging from wistful to borderline-absurd. Each track conjures up...
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...