Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum The thing with abstract music is… well, that it’s abstract. I suppose this sounds like a redundant statement, but bear with me a moment. The thing with abstraction is that, essentially, it easily becomes shapeless and … Continue reading ULESA: II
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum You all know that reviews are totally, 100% subjective, right? Well, notwithstanding that technical errors in production and musicianship can be objectively critiqued, e.g. if there are flaws in reproduction or performance; but apart from that, whether … Continue reading BRUME: Syncronicity & Wandering Current
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Music is a universal language, they say. And most of the time they’re right – whoever they are. But there are times when music isn’t universal enough; times, when not understanding the lyrics will make an … Continue reading ZŁE OKO: Xenos
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum If you want weird, you got weird. Polish Królówczana Smuga’s sixth album is a veritable cornucopia of, well, just about everything. The label’s promo sheet mentions as influences and key elements keywords such as folklore, alternative, … Continue reading KRÓLÓWCZANA SMUGA: Konwulsanki
Release year: 2019/2024Label: Amek/Zoharum Polish label Zoharum continue their praxis of re-releasing obscure and sold-out material. This time around it’s Greek Conjecture’s 2019 album V, augmented with tracks from related EP ∫V, on the fifth anniversary of the original album’s … Continue reading CONJECTURE: V
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum “Larmo means noise”, says a sticker I got along with this album. Larmo the music act, however, isn’t noise. Well, except when it is. Confused? Don’t worry. By and large, the soundscapes of Larmo’s debut album … Continue reading LARMO: Alarm
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Sutcliffe No More? Time to get with the program if you still haven’t heard: seminal UK power electronics outfit Sutcliffe Jugend called it a day in 2019, and after a short stint as Slaves No More, … Continue reading SUTCLIFFE NO MORE: Cute
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Once again I am faced with the task of reviewing a release by Polish Zoharum, and once again I find myself a bit stumped. This happens every now and then, especially when it comes to the … Continue reading RAFAŁ KOŁACKI: Mowa Tworzenia
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum This is another one of those tricky Zoharum releases to review. Not so much because of the audial contents themselves, but because of the nature of this release. You see, Before And After Silence was recorded … Continue reading NIMH: Before And After Silence
Release year: 1990/2024Label: ZNS Tapes/Zoharum The promo sheet for Polish Zoharum’s recent re-release of German Maeror Tri’s 1990 tape Ambient Dreams mentions that it was created entirely from sounds sourced from natural sources. No electronic sound sources were apparently used. … Continue reading MAEROR TRI: Ambient Dreams
