Articles by Eric Hill

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  Fires Were Shot

  Solace

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  The best practitioners of ambient or drone music usually come from geographically open and big-skied places: Australia’s Roy Montgomery, Ic...

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  Leandre / Maneri / Marguet / Ryan

  For Flowers

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004

  The opening track of this deceptively titled album might best accompany science show time lapse footage of a plant’s life cycle condensed i...

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  John Oswald

  Chronophotic: The Arc of Apparition

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  John Oswald has long been known as a musical innovator, both as a free jazz saxophonist and pioneer of sound sampling. His Plunderphonics p...

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  Cheval de Frise

  Fresques Sur Les Parois Secrètes Du Crâne

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  The post-rock genre does not breathe as deeply now as it did in the mid- to late ’90s, but neither does it appear to be going the way of al...

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  Steffen Basho Junghans

  7 Books

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Steffen Basho-Junghans’ steel string guitar, the traditional tool of western blues, drifts far, far east of its origins into a place where...

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  Danny Ben-Israel

  "The Kathmandu Sessions"

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  The extended family of "long lost” recordings recently welcomed a new cousin in the form of Danny Ben-Israel. A native Israeli who sang pri...

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  Charalambides

  Joy Shapes

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Charalambides follow last years’ reissue of Unknown Spin with a new and equally wonderful recording. Where Unknown Spin presented the sound...

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  Mike Hansen / Tomasz Krakowiak / John Butcher

  Relay

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2004

  Does Canadian politeness reside even in the worlds of sound art? Relay would seem to indicate so. Following last year’s collaborative relea...