Bex Burch: There Is Only Love and Fear review – messy minimalism that grooves hard | Music

The artwork for There Is Only Love and Fear.

Minimalism is usually cool, detached, frictionless and mathematical. The music made by percussionist Bex Burch is not any of these things. What she calls “messy minimalism” shares some characteristics with the music of Steve Reich […]

Deathprod to Deliver New Album of Deeply Atmospheric, Grainy Minimalism on Smalltown Supersound

Deathprod to Deliver New Album of Deeply Atmospheric, Grainy Minimalism on Smalltown Supersound

Oslo’s Deathprod, born Helge Sten, will release a new album on Smalltown Supersound. The first new Deathprod studio project since 2019’s OCCULTING DISK, Compositions is the result of an intense period at Sten’s legendary Audio […]

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree review – disrupted piano minimalism at its most satisfying | Music

Duval Timothy: Meeting With a Judas Tree Album artwork

One would hope that the profile of the pianist and composer Duval Timothy might rise exponentially after his high-profile production work on Kendrick Lamar’s Mr Morale & the Big Steppers. This former art student – […]

Akusmi: Fleeting Future review – minimalism meets rave pentatonics | Experimental music

Akusmi: Fleeting Future album cover

Pascal Bideau is a French composer based in London who has written and arranged music for dozens of films and documentaries. He has studied Indonesian gamelan, and in his alter ego of Akusmi he explores […]