Category: Album Reviews

May 21, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

SOMETIMES HOME CAN GROW STRANGER THAN SPACE (AAO) 8/10 Originally premiered in 2018 for the centenary of the end of the Great War, Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger than Space contains highly personalised perspectives by three composers: Peter Knight evokes the irreparable grief of the parents of the dead, Tilman…

May 16, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

NOW THEN (Tao Forms) 9/10 Raindrops on a window move with glacial slowness until two or three converge, whereupon they race as one with extraordinary velocity. This trio is like that. When the music converges, all sense of self is lost in the exhilarating rush of collective music-making: a spiral…

May 13, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

HAVEN (Earshift) 7/10 They found the ideal title in Haven. The opening lament, No Shepherds Live Here, has, like most of the pieces, such a profound stillness at its centre that it’s as if, just by pressing play, you step out of the world for its duration and into a…