DEMETRIO CECCHITELLI - JUMP The Dronarivm label mostly releases its albums on CD, but since 2020 there's also a sublabel named Le Mont Analogue, especially for cassette releases. The previous (five) releases all got a catalog number from the Dronarivm series (DR-*), but Demetrio Ceccitelli's Jump has catalog number LMA-01 - which feels a bit like the 'official start' of the sublabel. As if to celebrate this, there are two versions of the cassette, both limited to 35 copies: the 'classic' edition and the 'deluxe' edition. Of course, there is also a digital version available. Cecchitelli has r ..read more

Rainbow Clouds   00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:28 Plant43 - Incessant Circling The Unfading Spark, 2024, Quiet Details 03:06 Thom Yorke - Secret Clarinet Confidenza OST, 2024, XL Recordings 04:07 Rutger Zuydervelt - Dawn Banzo (Music For A Film By Margarida Cardoso), 2024, self-released 06:23 KRM/KMRU - Differ (edit) Disconnect, 2024, Phantom Limb 09:35 Niecy Blues - The Nite B4 Exit Simulation, 2024, Kranky 12:17 Trepaneringsritualen - The First Adam (edit) The Totality Of Death (Omega), 2024, Cold Spring 14:30 Sylvaine - Tussmørke Eg Er Fremand, 2024,Season Of Mist 16:54 B ..read more

ANDREW HEATH - THE CLOUD MACHINE After a spring that felt like autumn and a very wet start of summer, we finally had some warm/hot summer days here in Holland. And I immediately felt the need for some 'cooling' music, music like a refreshing morning breeze on a summer's day. The Cloud Machine proved to be exactly what I needed. Its freshness, by the way, came from the sound of ... rain in the first track. Oh, the irony! But it's not only that particular recording of rain - it is also the bright way the instruments (mainly piano and guitar) are recorded, how they are embedded in subtle electr ..read more

RUTGER ZUYDERVELT - BANZO Blink with your eyes and you have probably missed at least one new release by Rutger Zuydervelt (or his alter ego Machinefabriek). It's virtually impossible to keep track, and it's also unbelievable how he manages to come up with so many releases and maintain such high quality. When he uses his own name and not his alias, it often concerns a score for a play, a dance production, or a movie. Such is the case with Banzo (Music For A Film By Margarida Cardoso). Banzo is a movie about a group of workers on a tropical island, who are "plagued by a mysterious affliction c ..read more

EKIN FIL - SLEEPWALKERS "... Vaporous tone and forlorn, distant song, as if plucked from a dream" reads the description of the music of Ekin Fil (Ekin Üzeltüzenci, from Istanbul, Turkey). And that is exactly how it sounds on this new album - her 17th (according to Discogs) and the seventh for the Helen Scarsdale Agency label. Obviously, Ekin found a fitting place on this label 'dedicated to a particular thread of post-industrial research, surrealist collage, refined minimalism, caustic electro-acoustics, sublimated dream-pop, obfuscated field recordings, recombinant noise, existential vacanc ..read more

ARK ZEAD - NIPTAKTUK Everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - about this release breathes an extreme cold. Look at the album cover. Look at the track titles, that feel like they come from the Inuit language (although Båken Nunatak refers to a Norwegian-claimed mountain ridge in Antarctica). And - listen to the music! This music could not have been released on any óther label than Glacial Movements. No one knows a thing about Ark Zead. 'No reference sites, no biography, and no place of origin'. The artist describes himself (or herself, but I'll use him for simplicity's sake) as 'a gong and Tibeta ..read more

ARD BIT & RADBOUD MENS - MARKING A BOUNDARY WITH THE TURNING POINT Ard Bit (Ard Janssen) and Radboud Mens are two artists from the Netherlands, each with his own musical history. Ard Bit ('Electronic compost (sic!) and sounds artist', according to his Discogs profile) studied electronic music composition at the Institute of Sonology, and has released music since 2009. A lot of his works involve field recordings. Radboud Mens' musical history goes back further in time: he started creating noise machines in 1988; his first release appeared in 1999. Though their music definitely shares a co ..read more

"The Web Of Dreams"   TRACKLIST: 00:00 DreamScenes - Intro (Susanna) 00:44 Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola - Figures Decaying Light, 2024, Bigo & Twigetti 03:46 Fortresses - East (Preview Edit) East, 2024, Flaming Pines 07:54 Tashi Wada - What Is Not Strange? What Is Not Strange?, 2024, RVNG Intl 09:44 Copper Sounds - Sequenced Ceramics (Dan Thorman's Pseudo Spiritual Drone Mix) (edit) Sequenced Ceramics, 2024, TBC Editions 13:33 Juan J.G. Escudero - Sur La Pente Du Talis (fragment) Ice Door, 2024, Neuma 16:50 Michel Banabila - Darker And Darker Unspeakable Visions, 2024, Kne ..read more

CAT TYSON HUGHES - ROSES IN THE CASEMENT WINDOW I'm ashamed to admit: this one was left on the shelf for far too long. Roses In The Casement Window was already released in mid-December 2023 - and sold out quickly. The Quiet Details label even did a second run (announced on May, 8) but this is also gone by now. But there's still the digital download - so I guess this album is still worth mentioning for those of you who may have missed it too. Cat Tyson Hughes is a new name for me. This is her third album, following her (self-released) debut in 2019, and the follow-up Crossing Water in 2023 (o ..read more

CHRISTOPHER CERRONE - BEAUFORT SCALES The Beaufort Scale, devised in 1805 by Francis Beaufort, relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. It is a 13-part scale of increasing intensity. Experiencing wind is strongly subjective - 'one man's stiff breeze might be another's soft breeze' - which is why describing the conditions by sea or land conditions is helpful. For example: Beaufort 0 is described as 'sea like a mirror' and 'smoke rises vertically'. Beaufort 12 (the heaviest storm imaginable) as 'the air is filled with foam and spray; sea is completely white with driving spr ..read more