Blank Forms Editions レコード& CD

Review: Since the late 60s, Catherine Christer Hennix has been exploring innovations in minimal music, computer programming, poetry and more besides, and Blank Forms Editions has been on a mission to document and celebrate her work. The Swedish artist created a custom instrument comprised of a keyboard interface controlling a suite of 88 recordings of precision-tuned tambura, and the results are a mesmerising display of harmonic interplay. Heard in unison, these tambura become a drone-like mass with constantly shifting qualities - a fantastic display of Hennix's exacting and insightful methods, but equally a beautiful listening experience.

Review: Shadow Ring frontman Graham Lambkin recorded most of the music on Aphorisms during the start of the winter time back in 2022. He did so across locations in post-pandemic New York and post-Brexit London and in doing so captures the sound of daily life and reworking it into haunting and intimate soundscapes. It is his first real album in some seven-odd years and serves as an extended "transatlantic meditation" that focuses on processing that move back to the UK after almost 20 years living stateside. It's fragile and hypnotic and beautiful and another great work from this modern maestro.

Review: Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force throughout the decade of their existence. They operated on the international musical underground and had a shambolic post-rock sound that reflect the rag-bag group of rowdy teenagers who made it. The self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club came in 1992 and is getting its first ever vinyl pressing, as is the group's sophomore record Put the Music In Its Coffin. It is a more dark and sinister album that collides low-fidelity rock, noise, gauzy guitars and plenty of grit and sleaze. It has a dark and unsettling ambiance throughout and remains a truly unique record.