Kriipis Tulo

A number of ambient and minimal releases this week focus upon some daunting vistas. From a classically flat and windy Baltic seashore we move to grander considerations of outer space. In between, however, we stumble across the limits of human sanity.

Some springtime recordings from Petrozavodsk, Riga, and Moscow all draw upon the romance of distant rivers, forests, or stars. They do so in ways that suggest similar networks are failing at home

Three new releases this week, all the way from Minsk to the Arctic coastline, look closely at some hidden sounds of the material world - and their sad, slow decline into silence

When electronic musicians from Belarus are interviewed, they tend to make at least passing observations about the health of their chosen genre nationwide. Wishing to draw attention both to their own work and the efforts of colleagues, they are keen to engender a sense of shared activity - and re...