Ryan Burns

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[END OF YEAR] Best Of Experimental & Ambient

December 20, 2013 Ryan Burns 0

With outstanding releases from both veterans and newcomers, 2013 was a rewarding year in experimental and minimalist music for both long-time fans and complete strangers. The genre seems to be fragmenting into a number of different trends – avante-jazz is back (was it ever really gone?); analog synths are back as well as experimentation with […]

Album Reviews

[ELECTRONIC/EXPERIMENTAL] Tim Hecker – ‘Virgins’ Album Review

November 18, 2013 Ryan Burns 0

Upon hearing Tim Hecker’s Harmony in Ultraviolet for the first time in 2007, I described the experience to a friend as feeling like “some enormous deity descending through the clouds bringing thunderous redemptive white light.” Hecker’s music has always carried with it a feeling of the supernatural, perhaps invoking the devastating quietude that some feel […]