Articles by Roman Sokal

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  Hrsta

  L'éclat du Ciel Était Insoutenable

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  There is always beauty in sadness and Hrsta have captured it in all its reclusive and introspectively soaked manner. Headed by Godspeed You...

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  Robert Rich

  Bestiary

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Like some top-secret Eastern hemisphere experiment in creating new organisms and chemicals from sounds, Robert Rich's Bestiary CD is more l...

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  Nicky Skopelitis & Raoul Bjorkenheim

  Revelator

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  With the additional help of sound sculptors Bill Laswell and recording engineer of the highest depth and clarity Oz Fritz (Tom Waits par ex...

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  Ark

  Burn In The Sun

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  The Norwegian rock duo of John Macaluso (of TNT) and Tore Ostby make an album that has to do with "universal imbalance," or something like...

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  Brick Layer Cake

  Whatchamacallit

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  A singular entity of schizophrenically minimal yet chaotically coarse music from Todd Trainer, one of the non-Albini guys from Shellac. His...

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  Jason Raso

  The Bassman Cometh

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Although conforming to a drum machine, the multi-timbrel-like prancing of Jason Raso's bass is a full-on orchestra of ground vibrating plea...

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  Tarentel

  The Order of Things

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Tarentel takes the listener on a voyage into pure foreign darkness, mixing evil with light - a musical Tai Chi, if you will. Somewhat tradi...

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  vidnaObmana

  Tremor

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2002

  Sonically humid and airy (you can taste and feel it), vidnaObmana's tribally ambient and ancient music masterpiece inspired by Dante's Infe...