Articles by Eric Hill

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  Church Steps

  Jewelry EP

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  So as not to disturb their sleeping neighbours, Chris Douglas and Mike Donovan have transformed themselves into tiny (but muscular) mice-li...

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  Lull Account

  1

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  Parasol (distributor of this release) would have us believe that the Lull Account have managed to harness the powers of Scott Walker, the C...

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  Poem Rocket

  Psychogeography

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  Smart rock folks, these. All hooks and brains, Poem Rocket brings us their third full-length. Ignoring current currents and sticking to the...

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  Microstoria

  Model 3, Step 2

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2001

  For the last four years, Jan St. Werner and Markus Popp have been separately warming their zeroes and ones in Mouse on Mars and Oval, respe...

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  Mark Dresser / Fred Frith / Ikue Mori

  Later...

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  This is a 1994 recording by three giants in improvised/avant music. Dresser and Mori (on double bass and electronic percussion) have long b...

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  Illusion Of Safety / Life Garden / Voice Of Eye

  The Nature of Sand

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Two "long lost" live collaborations from 1995 between Illusion of Safety and the two above mentioned ensembles clock in at 40 and 36 minute...

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  Mari Kimura / Roberto Morales Manzanares

  Leyendas

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  A recording like this points to the reductionist nature of genre classification: world, jazz, classical - all could lay claim to this music...

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  Toe

  Variant

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2000

  Some neo-terminology will undoubtedly be generated to describe Toe's music: post-lounge, post-light jazz, post-Tortoise, etc. Led by drumme...