Articles by Eric Hill

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  Harold Budd & Clive Wright

  A Song for Lost Blossoms

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  Harold Budd’s reputation as progenitor of ambient electronic music, his career having started in the late ’70s and early ’80s, is undisputa...

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  Christina Carter

  Original Darkness

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  On Christina Carter’s last solo release for Kranky, Electrice, she wrote and recorded the four long pieces in a single key and tuning to ex...

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  Anla Courtis / Seiichi Yamamoto / Yoshimi

  Live at Kanadian

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  In terms of classifying this group of improvisers, the term "shaggy dog” is the first that leaps to mind. Slapping together two Boredoms me...

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  Galerie Stratique

  Faux World

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  There are many ways to incorporate exotic instruments into experimental music but I’ve not heard any that are as immediately striking and b...

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  Grails

  Doomsdayer's Holiday

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  As it turns out, their EP for Important Records, Take Refuge in Clean Living, was not Grails’ shoring up a direction but seemingly a cap on...

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  Growing

  All the Way

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo of Growing seem like the types of guys who’d use vice grips to pull out a nail. On their first full-length for...

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  Jóhann Jóhannsson

  Fordlandia

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  Iceland is alive with the sound of string composers of late. Hildur Guðnadóttir, Ólafur Arnalds and Amiina have all released lovely albums...

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  Agathe Max

  This Silver String

  PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2008

  Throwing off the mantle of traditional classical music, this French violinist has stepped laterally into the worlds of improvisation and so...