Tag: Lukas Koenig
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Mopcut – RYOK

Albums
On the third full-length album by the trio of Audrey Chen, Julien Desprez and Lukas Koenig a heady blend of pitches between the wailing signals of the guitar, crashing drums and the murkier siren calls of the bass synthesizer plus others keys and effects creates a kind of mesh which rolls out over a series of compositions always in...

drank (Ingrid Schmoliner & Alexander Kranabetter) – Breath in Definition

Albums
On 'Min', the second track from Ingrid Schmoliner and Alexander Kranabetter's debut album as drank, an arpeggiated piano loop takes us on a sinuous and disorientating rollercoaster ride amid the screws and sputtering, the drills and hammering of Schmoliner's prepared piano while Kranabetter's trumpet trills and splutters and whistles in spurts over the top. Those piano preparations add a...

Tracks of the Week 17.09.22

Tracks of the Week
With oblique references to 'The Anchor Song' and 'Hyperballad' plus the Georges Bataille favourite Story of the Eye, this week through the fanfare of retreating horns and a subterranean bass squelch Björk steadies the glass submersible of a romantic relationship. Expanding the space for contemporary Black art through a blend of popular forms with cutting-edge music production, Kelela returns...