Articles by I. Khider

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  Ghost Plants

  Thuja

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Shades of musical dissonance comprise this beautifully abstract instrumental album, which moves from astructural sounds to vestiges of reco...

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  Steffen Basho Junghans

  Waters in Azure

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Intoxicating musical fractal patterns articulated by six- and 12-string steel guitar solos via dense repetitions and chord patterns. Some p...

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  Francisco Lopez

  Untitled #123

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Untitled #123 is a continuous mechanical drone piece that juxtaposes long moments of silence with fragments of machine-generated noise, and...

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  Merzbow

  Dharma

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Four tracks of eardrum-wrecking, speaker-rattling noise that will send your stereo well into the red, if not blow the speakers outright. Me...

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  Shalabi Effect

  The Trial of St-Orange

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Shalabi Effect takes the preconceived notions that come with certain instruments and explores different contexts, such as transporting elec...

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  Tiny Hairs

  Subtle Invisible Bodie

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  A collection of musical doodles where some "songs" or "pieces" appear to be freeform musical sketches, like sonic ink blots, whereas other...

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  Lisa Walker

  Grooved Whale

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

  Grooved Whale opens up with the sound of a violin mimicking the feeding call of the humpback whale, before forming more drawn out violin no...

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  Jandek

  The Beginning

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2002

  Possibly Jandek’s most melodic album, The Beginning displays an impressive adeptness with his acoustic guitar and highly original songwriti...