Stephen Fruitman review Collected Recordings over at sonomu.net An armful of songs and a handful of instrumentals recorded at home. Glaswegian Gareth Dickson has spent the last few years touring as Vashti Bunyan´s guitarist, has contributed to works by Juana Molina and Max Richter, and is slowly but surely gaining a reputation as an artist […]
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Robin Babb of Space City Rock shares her thoughts on regen:tropfen by zazie von einem anderen stern. The first time I heard a John Cage piece, I was floored. Being in a pretty steady post-punk revival phase at the time (give me a break, I was fifteen), the idea of music that was non-melodic was […]
Review of Kontakte’s album We Move Through Negative Spaces at contactmusic.com Kontakte follow-up their debut Soundtrack For Lost Road Movies with ‘We Move Through Negative Spaces’ their most accomplished work to date. No evidence of any difficult second album syndrome here. Indeed evidence points to the contrary with an EP release prior to the album […]
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The new Kontakte album “We Move Through Negative Spaces” was reviewed by Future Sequence Intensity and emotion are two really difficult elements to marry effectively in music. Too often, you hear records that fall too far on either side of the line; too focused on what’s pushed out sonically, or on cheap chord sequences – cliched […]
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A preview of the Islet EP from Pawn. […]
Kontake to play a couple of UK shows over the next few days Sat 12th FebMagic Pudding Avenue @<Mama Liz’s Voodoo Lounge9a North StreetStamfordLincs9pm £3 Mon 14th FebMelting Borderline @Cafe 100191 Brick Lane, E1 6QLLondon, United Kingdom7pm *FREE Entry* […]
Review of Kontakte’s “We Move Through Negative Spaces” from Tasty fanzine. London-based instrumental 4-piece taking their name from the piece by electronica pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen, release their follow-up to 2008’s “Soundtracks to Lost Road Movies”. Consisting of electro-beat led instrumental mood-pieces that are texturally guitar-heavy, they tick most of the usual post-rock boxes (although judging […]
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45. Zazie Von Einem Anderen Stern – Regen:Tropfen..if you’re into Neo Classical music (VERY gorgeous stuff here) […]
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Here’s a really good interview with Kontakte from At The Sinema discussing the new album, ‘We Move Through Negative Space’. KONTAKTE’s second studio album ‘We Move Through Negative Space’ hits the airwaves this April 11th and we here at ATS were lucky enough to get a sneaky peak. We loved it so much, we begged […]
A glowing review of “We Move Through Negative Spaces” by Textura, one of our very favorite publications. When Kontakte visited London’s Metropolis Studios to have its newly completed We Move Through Negative Spaces mastered, they heard the album played back through speakers standing eight feet tall. One can only begin to imagine how incredible the […]
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