Alan Freeman Leicester, UK
Self-taught non musician, fascinated with electronics in music, weird rock and the avant-garde. A sound explorer seriously
active since 1981 especially so with the projects Alto Stratus, Endgame and Triax, also issuing a number of solos largely in the realms of musique concrete and ambient experimental music.
Influences range from Eno, Cluster, Klaus Schulze to Pierre Henry and Nurse With Wound.
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Alan Freeman recommends:
One of the finest, from the 1980s by the intrepid duo of Alan & Steve Freeman, aka Alto Stratus - the release they named their studio after. A great mixture, bridging synth music and the avant-garde.
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One of many favourites by the improvising trio Endgame, this one has homages to some great pioneers of the genre and has a deliberately plagiaristic cover designed by Alan
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The 13th Triax release, with 13 tracks, different to any Triax before it: more fragmentation, vignettes, bizarre cyclical structures, darker too - and perhaps scary! Definitive Triax, yet not.
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Brachliegen Tapes's electronic compilation finds magic in the simple act of riding the bus.
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Written in response to the climate crisis, “Leviathan” is a brooding and beautifully unsettling batch of dark ambient songs.
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by Colin Andrew Sheffield
Colin Andrew Sheffield (Elevator Bath) repurposes heavily manipulated jazz samples into gorgeously eerie soundscapes.
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