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 | 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,...