Articles by Eric Hill

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  Father Murphy

  ...and He told us to Turn to the Sun

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  Recently watching the 1974 "classic" Nude for Satan confirmed that A: Italian art can often be simultaneously Catholic and subversive and B...

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  Pedestrian Deposit

  Austere

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  Early 2000's emergence of neo-noise punks like Wolf Eyes appeared to spell a trip to the sidelines for Merzbow-derived noise artists. Meanw...

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  Yoshi Wada

  Earth Horns with Electronic Drone

  PUBLISHED Sep 17, 2009

  The long drone is a meditative musical form that rewards patience and, ultimately, forgetting. This fourth and final EM Records reissue of...

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  Black Feather

  Silhouette

  PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2009

  The talent pool of Norway's Jaga Jazzist was incontestably fjord deep, though the evidence we North Americans witnessed usually had to do w...

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  Porn Sword Tobacco

  Everything is Music to the Ear

  PUBLISHED Aug 31, 2009

  Henrik Jonsson admits that his third full-length for City Centre was a largely unplanned exercise of in-studio improvisation. The dog's bre...

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  Stade

  Freewheel

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2009

  From the cover photo that layers the faces of Pierre Audetat and Christophe Calpini of the Swiss duo Stade, it's clear that a cool fusion i...

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  Kreng

  L'Autopsie Phénoménale de Dieu

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2009

  Less ambitious artists might recycle the clichés of haunted house piano (obviously player-less) and the sharp wolfing of violins tha...

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  Risil

  Non Meters Vol. 1

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2009

  Murmuring, liquid burbles, melodic intonations over tasteful flute, glitchy electronics — despite a collaborative line-up that featur...