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Jeff Carey - laptop
Robert van Heumen - laptop
Bas van Koolwijk - laptop (visuals)
Recorded at STEIM in 2008 a trio of "laptop" ( I don't like catgorizing this way) musicians gives a rich and eclectic overview of how music generated via laptops can be. Assembled with van Koolwijk visuals is a viable and flashy base for sonic explorations which don't seem boring at all as in many cases of improvised laptop music can be. The tracks are nicely put into the form of more and less dynamic passages. I like its quivering and rustling bit which is harsh in a nice way. Steady way of work, I like it a lot...

Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon "The Trees, The Sea in a Lunar Stream" Rusted Rail records 2010 RR22

Phantom Dog is an Irish duo - Aaron Hurley and Scott McLaughlin which is usually labelled as avant-folk/shoegaze/indie rock.
"The Trees, The Sea in a Lunar Stream" is actually their first album - a debut following by "In a Light" as Snowmachine released on Deserted Village and a 3" EP "Through a forest only" under current alias.
Vocals, guitars, piano, cello, glockenspiel, bass guitar, melodica, double bass, harpsichord, vibraphone and a slight touch of electronics make their way to the point where singer/songwriter etiquette loses with psychedelia and fragile sphere of inner journey.
There is a great deal of poetry in this which isn't suppresive by any means and has enough power to become more than a music wallpaper which is a usual fact in case of songs of this type.
Two gentlemen refer to Nick Drake's archetype in their own manner and style - very much retro and gets everything what is good from that.
Time to chill out...

Franz Fjödor "Exhibition", "Glorious Days" - Vatican Analog

Wouter Jaspers working under the moniker Franz Fjodor as well as Preliminary Saturation (with Staplefahrer Steffan de Turck) has been into experimental music for a few years. Young might he be but the level of advancement in his musical endeavours is really high which for such young musician sets up a really nice impression. Yet you can feel a great deal of determination joined by his own way of expression.
His last two albums have a year gap in between - a time good for reconciliating Your experiences and working out individual formula of the style.
Wouter revolves in the field of drone music mingled with rich and creamy field recordings and utility of electroacuostic means. I have a deep feeling that what gives this kind of music a sort of freshness is the way he combines sound in a far off from academical style way. He himself derives his music from non-typical dark ambient folk chasm a very auto-didact one, bedroom made but in a hi-fi style.
What else gives me a clue to Wouter's music is the journey - which he, quite literally travels all the time and metaphorically transposes it into his work. The destination is way unknown which isn't a flaw at all, quite opposite...
http://wouterjaspers.nl/