martin corey
Blimey! Tenter ground! Cheered me right up, that did. Fabulous, repetitive, hypnotic stuff with beautiful textures of industrial electronic sounds. Like the man says, it's familiar but so gloriously full of tiny details. Standing on the shoulders of giants, but finally reaching the sky!
richardw27
Hypnotic, dark, atmospheric. Great stuff that suits it's setting very well. Thanks to Gideon Coe and his superb 6 Music show for bringing this to my attention
Netherfield Works is the debut release from Craven Faults.
Two long form pieces for half-remembered journeys across post-industrial Yorkshire. On first impression it appears to be a journey through a uniform landscape, past familiar mills, peaks and dales. Until you start to notice the details. The devil’s in the details. It occupies your peripheral vision. It leaves you questioning how you arrived where you did. How did we get here?
It almost certainly started in Düsseldorf or Köln. Or possibly The San Francisco Tape Music Centre. It’s not important. The journey to Yorkshire is somewhat hazy. Hansa by the Wall, 1977. Stockholm’s Museum Of Modern Art, 1968. Maida Vale, 1963. Rugby, 1986. It enters Yorkshire via Kingston-upon-Hull. Although, even that isn’t set in stone. It’s not important. It’s important to ask the question every now and then. The answers less so.
Banks of vintage equipment. A master craftsman at work in a nest of patch cables within an old textile mill. The tracks appear at their own pace. They gestate between recording sessions for other artists. There are guests on ‘Tenter Ground’. The single take drums deserve a special mention: a study in restraint and execution. ‘Eller Ghyll’ is perhaps a better signpost. From humble beginnings: a trickle into a mighty torrent.
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This album caught my eye and ear as someone who grew up living in a new town in Hertfordshire and now lives in new city in Egypt. The album encapsulates a sense of the doomed promise of such ventures, and the way in which such synthetic managerial ways to constructing a culture through architecture always sow the seeds of their own failure. The music resonates this duality perfectly - the beauty of the utopian dreams that birthed such cities, but the grim experience of their realities. nujumi
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Was lucky enough to catch and meet, live in Coventry on 16/10. I had already listened to a few tracks. Love the dark atmospheric tones. Stunning work. Gaz gaziola
Electronic pioneer Steve Roach is at his finest on this 11-track live record, recorded as part of the celebrated Ambient Church series. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 24, 2020
MinaeMinae, from Germany, make psychedelic electronic music with a dense collage of sound and giddy, skittering beats. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 22, 2020
The chilled product of a snowed-in weekend in the Swiss Alps, the debut EP from this ambient duo is a winter wonderland in and of itself. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 6, 2018