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FWD00 Graham Semark Conor Curran Paul Finn
CJC’s ‘Elastics’ with its clattering watery drums and fuzzy noises backed by poignant melodies and lush strings to build a superb track of trademark electronics. - Boomkat
FWD01 Graham Semark Conor Curran Fitzroy & Flynn Seven Months In E Minor is a record which unveils its profound beauty with great care, and requires a level of commitment to fully appreciate its depth. - themilkfactory
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The deep level of understanding between the two musicians makes it a wonderfully enjoyable record. - themilkfactory
FWD02 Mark Beazley James O’Sullivan Alexandra Hobson O'Sullivan manages to produce rich and varied music… that handsomely repays the time invested in listening to it - John Eyles - All About Jazz
FWD03 Jon Clayton Ian R. Watson, Peter Marsh, Paul May Peter Marsh The album reveals Elvers to have its own well-defined identity and sound…making it a group to watch. - John Eyles - All About Jazz
FWD04 Graham Semark Conor Curran Riccardo Arena There is something exhilarating about this modest yet perverse album and its refusal to conform. - Clive Bell - The Wire
FWD05 Ben Turner Charlie Beresford Charlie Beresford I thought it was perhaps the sort of song cycle Schubert might have written if he’d been around today. - Fiona Talkington, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3
FWD06 Conor Curran Conor Curran Maura Curran Sonnamble’s approach is an intellectual one…yet these ambient, floating minimalist soundscapes still have the ability to emote…Wyndham Wallace - BBC Music
FWD07 Patrick Fennelly, Cian Walker, Jason Joomun Conor Curran Anne Grön The trio has done well to exercise restraint…they imitate the best directors, who create tension without resorting to shock… - Richard Allen - A Closer Listen
FWD08 Charlie Beresford Charlie Beresford Hannes Jentsch The group blend elements of jazz, folk, classical and ambient music in a uniquely contemporary manner… - Ian Mann - The Jazz Mann
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Fourth Page seem to have discovered a whole new vocabulary… that sets them apart from the improv establishment. - Ian Mann - The Jazz Mann
FWD09 Conor Curran Tomonari Nozaki Hannes Jentsch North Palace is the sound of ambient drift and temporal collapse...the effect is muzzy and narcotic. - Tim Owen - Dalston Sound
FWD10 Jeff Carey Jeff Carey Hannes Jentsch Jeff has forged a signature sound. I haven’t hear anything quite like it. - Guttermag
FWD11 James Aparicio Elsie Martins, James Aparicio Oliver Barton Elsie Martins’ enthusiasm for her medium is addictive. There’s something phantom-like about her music – a sense of suspension and unresolve... - ATTN:MAGAZINE
FWD12 Denis Blackham Tomonari Nozaki Jakob Brondum On the surface, this is ambient music, but with a more intricate lattice than one might observe at softer volumes. - Richard Allen - A Closer Listen
FWD13 Denis Blackham Tomonari Nozaki Jakob Brondum “Pt. 2” of “Decadence” is most likely my favourite track of the whole trilogy...in the final conclusion it’s all swept away by the rumbling sound of the wasteland echoes. - Santa Sangre
FWD14 Denis Blackham Tomonari Nozaki Jakob Brondum The vortex sucks in all that is–cathedral tones and chorales buried beneath chthonic drones. Leaving just vestiges… echoes of what once was. - Alan Lockett - Igloo Magazine
FWD15 Rutger Zuydervelt, Philippe Petit Rutger Zuydervelt, Philippe Petit British Library archive Angry Ambient Artists is a reaction to the label, akin to turning a rock and finding worms underneath...but “Graniet” is still accidentally gorgeous. - Richard Allen - A Closer Listen
FWD16 Conor Curran Svetlana Maraš, George Royle British Library archive Angry Ambient Artists Vol. 2 has plenty of “oomph,” but its violent fuzz is able to masquerade as soothing drone. This is a lullaby of the worst kind. - Sly Vinyl
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One starts to wonder if any voice could be understood above the noise, a metaphor for these dissonant times. - Richard Allen - A Closer Listen
FWD17 Denis Blackham, Conor Curran Tomonari Nozaki Jakob Brondum The man needs to be given a film to match the scope of his cinematic music right now. Stunning music. - Richard Johnson - Adverse Effect
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This stunning EP series is tied together thematically by the art of Jakob Brondum. His swirling paints produce a sense of synaesthesia that is reflected in the music. - Richard Allen - A Closer Listen
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The whole is re-imagined into a dish fit to set before Basinski buffs and Hecker checkers. The series’ sheer sweep sees Nozaki’s sound gather in sono-dramatic force, cementing detail, texture and integration of its parts. Alan Lockett - Igloo Magazine
FWD18 Conor Curran Linus Schrab, Johan Fotmeijer Hannes Jentsch Schrab and Fotmeijer’s dark offering characterizes a set of uneasy emotions that are felt not only in the Rust Belt, but anywhere that industry is in decline. - Avant Music News
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There’s a balance across the 39-minute album between ambience and percussion that results in an appropriately combined sense of loss and genuine angst. - Kevin Press - Badd Press Blog
FWD19 Conor Curran Jeremy Keenan Martina O'Shea Scripts features four deeply satisfying pieces. Music in this genre doesn’t often inspire listeners to turn the volume knob clockwise. This one absolutely does. - Kevin Press - Badd Press Blog
FWD20 Conor Curran, Dieter Kovacic Childe Grangier, Gabriel Ghebrezghi, Billy Roisz British Library archive It is less a response to the mainstream of ambient music than it is a part of where the real action is...These recordings are all imaginative and beautifully produced. - Kevin Press - Badd Press Blog