Articles by Eric Hill

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  Warren Burt

  The Animation of Lists and the Archytan Transposit

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  With a title that warns of an ass-numbing academic exercise, the sound of this Australian minimalist’s two-disc exploration is surprisingly...

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  Grails

  Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1, 2 & 3

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  An expanded digital version of a European vinyl release, this album highlights even more shifts in the Grails’ never-stable roster and soun...

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  Various

  Touch 25

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Perhaps a key to the content of this 25th anniversary collection of tracks by the Touch roster is the accompanying booklet of photographs b...

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  Eluvium

  When I Live By the Garden and the Sea

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  For a quiet album, Eluvium’s Talk Amongst the Trees made a lot of noise on a variety of 2005 top ten lists. And rightfully so, as Matthew C...

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  Bardo Pond

  Ticket Crystals

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Philadelphia’s proud psychedelic sons and daughter continue their long sunward trek via riff and drone express. Like most ensembles that la...

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  North Sea & Rameses III

  Night of the Ankou

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  With hands across the ocean, free folk CD-R label guru Brad Rose (the North Sea) reaches out from Tulsa, OK to London-based trio Rameses II...

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  Daniel Menche

  Jugularis

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  The polarised concepts of restraint and extremity become all too relative when describing shifty-sand artists like Menche. Definitely more...

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  Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville

  Victoriaville, QC - May 18 to 22, 2006

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

  The 23rd edition of the festival opened with a (strangely) rare focus on voice in a panoply of forms, beginning with a performance by a cap...