Calika News: Seedling Mother

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David Newman trails releases on his Audiobulb Records as "Exploratory Electronic Music," and it's no empty sloganeering. Simon Kealoha's third album as Calika - sequel to first Audiobulb outing, Small Talk Kills Me, and Benbecula bash, The Bright Spot - certainly fits the questing bill. Whether or not its explorations bear a yield of resonance, however, is a question of the listener's preferred orientation in terms of musical textures and compositional strategy. Kealoha operates with a pointillist palette, melding particulate matter gradually into larger shifting shapes, invariably organically inclined, often with a faux-live sound. Though it wears its electronic skeleton...

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