Olivia Block / Petra Klusmeyer - Untitled (Boxmedia, 2001)

1 Olivia Block - Oil And Water 19:54
2 Petra Klusmeyer - Pandora's Box 19:57

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Alial Straa - Tunnels / Stairwell (Alluvial Recordings, 1996 (2001 reissue))

1 Tunnels (14:18)
2 Tunnels (15:10)
3 Stairwell (16:07)
4 Stairwell (13:50)

Some great work is being done in the vast silence of this under-distributed, experimental frontier, particularly on cdr. Its like the taper underground of the 80's that involved Illusion Of Safety, Tietchens, Greif, Jeph Jerman and countless others is starting silently again but with new artists and perspectives. Seth Nehil and John Grzinich work with Mnortham on this one, a grey, naturalist work in two sections. Struck stones, rubbed sticks, pale, ragged instrumentation as minimal ornaments in the background. We go from lair to city, cave to tunnel, sky to stairwell in sound. All progression and change, but staying within a composed Jeph Jerman/His Masters Voice sound, natural and barely affected. Like being hypnotized by the wise ghosts of ancient animals, moving with them in spirit through the structures of humankind, feeling the smooth stone and concrete of sidewalls, nature badly transformed into temporary spaces. A hard one to describe, but one that promisesmany plays before its secrets even begin to be revealed.
Manifold Records

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Seth Nehil - From Cloud To Seed (Alluvial Recordings, 2000)

A1 Cloud
A2 Leaf
A3 Soil
B1 Crystal
B2 Stone
B3 Seed

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