This cassette is part of the lovely series Pan Thorarensen has put out over the last few years featuring live electronic performances at Space Odyssey, his record-store-meets-music-space in Reykjavik. Artists perform live in the intimate setting and the sessions are made available to the world on the Spacey Odyssey Bandcamp page. A limited number of […]
Tag: 2022
Kham Meslien – “Fantômes… Futurs” (2022)
One of the wonderful things about attending a music festival is being exposed to artists you would otherwise never come across. Sometimes this is an interesting diversion. Sometimes it’s fun. And every once in a while, if you’re really fortunate, you experience something… seminal. That’s what happened to me in the late afternoon in a […]
Mondernte – “Canticles Of Ecstasy” (2022)
Mondernte is one of those performers for who one day I randomly realize I have almost all their releases even without being sure how that happened. The one-woman black metal performer from Iceland first came to my attention via her debut cassette RÅ (2020) and I picked up all her other releases along the way […]
Chaucerian Myth – “St. George And The Dragon” (2022 / 2024)
On April 23 a good man breathed his last, or as Chaucer himself might have written, he tooketh his last sote brethe. His name was Dr. Gary Culbert and he was 80 years old. Almost as far back in history as Chaucer’s own times, in an era known as “the late 1980s”, he was my […]
Konjuro’s Keep – “Konjuro’s Keep” (2022)
Konjuro’s Keep is the final post in my little Malfortune Discs tetrad. Like the previously reviewed Frogzard, Konjuro’s Keep is another project by Andrew Oliver of Chaucerian Myth fame. Also similar is the style, with a very video-game-soundtrack feel, which is only amplified by the 8-bit-ish blocky image of a knight on the cover. The […]