Diorama – The Secret Vault of Lost Curiosities CD

goii (German Ocean 2) is the follow up to the Brighton post-ambient dronescape merchants’ eponymous debut. Where the first album took listeners to the cold deep seas, goii attempts to reach for the sky; the five tracks acting as an imagined map into a world of thinning oxygen and eerie silence, punctured by the external drones of engines, propellers, the rattle of mounted cannon and movements of air that sing their strange songs along to the inner voices, chants (or prayers?) of men and women experiencing the thrill and fear of altitudes their fleshy bodies were never meant to attain. The fields below are a patchwork quilt bounded by hedgerows and dotted with sheep, grazing without a care in the world or a single thought for the feats of bravery, love and bloodlust above.

dogs versus shadows teams up with there are no birds here on this split release from Lee Pylon’s TSOTH Records. Taking the title of the release as an inspirational phrase, each artist tells their own sonic tale: exploring the relationship between music, place and memory. The result: two interwoven stories in sound from two shining lights of experimental electronic music. These two long-form pieces make extensive use of an arsenal of home-brewed electronic experiments, field recordings, battered radios, kids walkie-talkies, violins with strings missing through to iPhone apps and weird and wild delay pedals. An essential release!