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By Volume Review
Essays In Idleness is a translation of Tsurezuregusa, a collection of medieval Japanese essays, penned as streams of consciousness by the monk Yoshida Kenkō. Its casual, thematically miscellaneous...
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The Quietus Review
The continual crossover between the wings of academically trained electronic experimentalism and what can generally still be called “indie music” – at least in the sense of independent labels, if not...
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Futuresequence Review
The work of Christopher Bissonnette is, even to those who do not find his particular brand of contemplatively-minded electroacoustic work riveting, a worthy flag to hoist in the argument for the...
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Fluid-Radio Review
Essays In Idleness, the third album from Canadian composer Christopher Bissonnette, is a refreshing change from the international school of ambient music and its widely held belief that the sweet...
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Brainwashed Review
This album is a bit of an experiment in simplicity for Bissonnette, as he decided to limit himself solely to sounds generated from a synthesizer that he built himself. While I was initially dismayed...
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A Few Year End Lists
I’ve been fortunate enough to be included on some great year end lists. Music is Good Surachai.org The Awl Magnet Magazine DeerDiary Year End Mix: Silence and Light hearfeel.co.uk
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Ear Influxion: Review of Essays in Idleness
Christopher Bissonnette’s first album for Kranky in seven years is fairly different from the more patient, pastoral ambient terrain he’s traversed on past releases. InsteadEssays in Idleness finds...
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Pocket Fields : VA – Touching Down Lightly
Album: Touching Down Lightly Label: Pocket Fields Format: CDr Catalogue N°: PF050 Release date: December 2014 1. Field Rotation – Cloud Observation (05:23) 2. Offthesky – Upside Drown (05:27) 3. Segue...
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