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The Wire magazine review of “The Black Room” by Dokuro

(2008- David Stubbs) Based in Oakland, California, Dokuro are visual artist/composer Agnes Szelag and the magnificently nomenclatured The Norman Conquest. They include the word “pop” in their self-definition, which is a little like Sunn 0))) locating a Country & Western element somewhere in their music. This is extremist fare that blasts away the earwax without […]

textura online review of “The Black Room” by Dokuro

(2008- textura) Dokuro, which unites electro-acoustic improvisers Agnes Szelag and The Norman Conquest, kicks up some serious feral dust in The Black Room. Though four of the EP’s five pieces are short, brief running times don’t prevent the pair from plunging into viral, feedback-infested pools where electronics and cello meld into feedback-drenched vortices. Much of […]

The Wire magazine review of “Leaves and Snows” by Berthiaume/Sirjacq/Teale

(2006- Brian Marley) Of the three players on Leaves and Snows, only guitarist Antoine Berthiaume is known to me, from Soshin, a series of duets on Ambiances Magnetiques with fellow stringbenders Fred Frith and Derek Bailey. Berthiaume is nearer to Frith than Bailey in his guitar stylings, and on Leaves and Snows he’s occasionally drawn […]

xlr8r magazine review of “The Black Room” by Dokuro

(2008- Martin De Leon) Dokuro is a duo from Oakland that uses ambient noise like a six-string guitar on their gorgeous EP The Black Room [Aphonia].  Composer buddies Agnes SzelagOne’s preference and desire for future pregnancies is also crucial in the viagra effects women treatment discussion. Administer enema uk cialis slowly and hold internally as long as […]