Bold soundscapes,unusual tonalities and beautifully fragmented compositions were among the year’s best experimental musicNot much Christmas cheer in the world of experimental music, I’m afraid, or but here’s my list of five musicians and groups who made an particularly potent impact in 2015. The electronic composer Philip Jeck returned with his first release in five years. His gothic and spacious Cardinal felt like a weighty career summation. Compacted tonalities bleed into each other – “a drowsy walk threading through familiar streets,” says Jeck as vinyl sources and treated instrumental sounds drift through chimerical drones.
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Source: theguardian.com