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Album Review: All Around Me by Bob Ohrum

By Greg M, on October 24th, 2011

Bob Ohrum’s albums combine urban field recordings with drones, bass and keyboards in a highly personal, alchemical fusion. (I’ve reviewed Bob’s albums Elevated and Subliminal Listening.) Bob’s

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Album Review: Worlds, Afterworlds by Zero Ohms

By Greg M, on September 23rd, 2011

Richard Roberts (Zero Ohms) has just released Worlds, Afterworlds, his debut on the Relaxed Machinery label (rM_0019).

Richard is a veteran performer on flutes, wind-synth and

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Review of Scáth M’anam by Stephen Fruitman

By Greg M, on September 6th, 2011

Under the woebegone alias I’ve Lost, Bobby Jones unspools a long, drawn-out cry into the wilderness. Scáth M’anam is divided into an eight-part suite called “I Wish I Could Fly”,

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Album Review: Upwelling by Steve Brand

By Greg M, on September 2nd, 2011

Steve Brand has just released his first “lost pieces” collection, on his own Pioneer Light label. Upwelling (PL 0002) is a gathering of nine remixed and reimagined

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Album Review: Lowell Levene-Sims – A Thing of Beauty To An Object of Regret

By John Koch-Northrup, on August 22nd, 2011

It would be far too easy to simply describe Lowell Levene-Sims as an “intrepid bass explorer”, as that really does not do him, or his music, any justice, as this,

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Album Review: Home by Chris Russell

By Greg M, on August 5th, 2011

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’

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