![[review/stream] Francisco Lopez // Untitled #244](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/3986821_lg.jpg)
Tweet vaso link Well, it seems like the beginning of 2012 will be marked by me looking back to 2011 to touch on some releases that I should have covered. Francisco Lopez' Untitled #244 should have been covered, but it will be a happy new addition to my survey of Drone. Lopez is a sound artist and experimental composer, who has been award the coveted 0.0 ("Perfect 03) rating from Pitchfork (for his Untitled #104 , though it is [...]

A sextet of tracks these ears would have been much the poorer for not having heard. Mostly from new or imminent releases ( Pascal Savy 's ravishing warm flood of an EP, Liminal [Feedback Loop], David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette 's deep journeying, darkly glowing The Meridians of Longitude and Parallels of Latitude [Home Normal] & Illuha 's delicate, faintly off-kilter [...]

Footnotes coming out of our ears, or something like that...anyway, a batch of compelling new material that usefully augments some of LMYE's posts this week . Firstly, two more of Tim Hecker 's diverting piano 'sketches' for the immense Ravedeath, 1972 - more muted & reflective than Sketch 5 (covered here ), but still highly affecting. [...]

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Staying with cassette culture , Mark Templeton brings unseasonal warmth to Edmonton, Alberta with a typically dense, knotty live set to celebrate his very fine recent-ish Scotch Heart tape for Sweat Lodge Guru . Stream or download this richly satisfying 30-minute excursion across moods & tones, plus an LMYE hack (with permission, though probably not approval of its cack-handedness...) of two favourite passages (particularly that ratcheting zithery section), below. More [...]