Articles
2010 Artist Picks
Francesco Tristano
Albums
36
Access To Arasaka
Aeroplane Trio
Christian Albrechsten
Gilles Aubry
Andreas Bick
Wil Bolton
Caroline
Chaim
Scott Cortez
Dead Voices On Air
Margaret Dygas
F. Gerard Errante
Seren Ffordd
Field Rotation
Marcus Fischer
The Ghost of 29 Megacycles
Tania Gill
Gord Grdina Trio
Herion
Hummingbird
Ironomi
Yoshio Machida
Machinefabriek / Liondialer
Phil Manley
Matta
Mem1
me:mo
Miko
Momus
Moshimoss
Roger O'Donnell
orchestramaxfieldparrish
Cédric Peyronnet
Resoe
Danny Saul
Dirk Serries
Shedding
Clive Tanaka y su orquesta
Robert Scott Thompson
Two People In A Room
Undermathic
Wires Under Tension
Clive Wright
Compilations
Joachim Spieth Selected 6
Playing with Words
Reconstruction of Fives
20 Centuries Stony Sleep
EPs
Balmorhea
Clara Moto
d_rradio
Deepgroove
Kyle Bobby Dunn
Fear Falls Burning
Hammock
ptr1
Quiroga
Sawako
d_rradio:
Seasons
Rural Colours
d_rradio (D. R. Radio, short for Death Row Radio) takes a Vivaldi-esque turn on its latest release, a beautiful four-track collection with each one named, of course, after a season. It's another fine release by the Hibernate sub-label Rural Colours in the likable three-inch CD-R format. In simplest terms, the tracks are orchestral in terms of musical character and hypnotic in their loop-like construction—strongly reminscent, in short, of both Ekkehard Ehler's Betrieb (Mille Plateaux, 2000) and d_rradio's own double-CD offering Leaves ( Symbolic Interaction, 2009) . Each of Seasons' pieces explores a different mood: “Autumn” is infused with a spirit of melancholy but one not bereft of hopefulness; “Winter” is suitably sombre in its withdrawn character; the gorgeous “Spring” exudes elegiac uplift through its every pore; and the pastoral “Summer” has a light-hearted spring in its quietly jubilant step. Throughout the nineteen-minute EP, strings are the dominant element, but woodwinds and piano appear too. The group's Facebook page describes d_rradio's music as graceful and mesmerizing, and of having “a subtle lightness of touch and a melancholic sense of hope,” and the description goes a long way towards capturing the tone of this lovely outing.
January 2011