ARTICLES
Benoît Pioulard's Précis
Label: Dynamophone
Label: Hidden Shoal

ALBUMS
Aemae
A Lily
Arc Lab
Blotnik Brothers
Gui Boratto
Cagesan
Jeremy Caulfield
Loren Dent
Do Make Say Think
Eats Tapes
Enduser
Domink Eulberg
Explosions in the Sky
Michael Fahres
The Field
Frivolous
Maximilian Hecker
Hug
Hush Arbors
Jan-M. Iversen
Espen Jørgensen
Kattoo
O.Lamm
Bruce Levingston
Tobias Lilja
Lusine
Marcia Blaine School
The Missing Ensemble
Nebulo
Ölvis
Charlemagne Palestine
Palomar
Pornopop
The Postmarks
Propergol Y Colargol
The Retail Sectors
R/R Coseboom
Sankt Otten
Scratch Massive
Slow Dancing Society
Stars of the Lid
subtractiveLAD
Sunosis
Aoki Takamasa
Amon Tobin
Tokyo Mask
Kate Wax
Wes Willenbring
Windmill

COMPILATIONS/MIXES
Chaos.Lovers
Cryosphere
Hub: 2004-2005
Rufs
Satoshi Tomiie

3" /7" /10"/12"/EPs
Agnes
AM/PM
Arctic Sunrise
Audion
Characterize 1
Dartriix
Death is Nothing To Fear
Don't Be A Stranger
Einóma
Fusiphorm
Heartthrob
Human Nature
Infant Cycle / Antmanuv
Lilienweiss
Luci
Mauve
Paco Osuna
Ben Parris
Carola Pisaturo
Portable
Sutekh
System
Aoki Takamasa
Cortney Tidwell
Andy Vaz

Lilienweiss: Silent Night
October Man

Silent Night by electro-acoustic practitioners Lilienweiss (German duo Thorsten Scheerer on guitar and bass and Dorothea Herrmann on clarinet) collects five pieces on a three-inch CDR in a criminally small run of fifty copies. Bolstering their already considerable musical abilities, Scheerer and Herrmann exploit their instruments' sonic potential with software tools that allow the clarinet to mimic a chorus of screeching golems in “Silent Night 2.1 (Stille Nacht 2.1).” It's the ruminative compositions—equally rooted in experimental and classical music—and the explorative interplay between Scheerer's bass patterns and Herrmann's assertive woodwind playing that impresses most, however. A shame, though, that “Rectified 4.3” had to be soiled by the inclusion of metal guitar shenanigans but, thankfully, the piece lasts a minute only, and its memory is banished by the spirited, bluesy soloing in “Tomorrow Comes 1.1.” Enhancing Silent Night's appeal is that each release includes a different b & w cover photograph shot at a different locale.

April 2007