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On the cover: Bill Orcutt : The late blooming career of the former Harry Pussy guitarist is impossible to second guess. By Tony Rettm

The August issue of The WIRE magazine features reviews of two Sublime Retreat releases: Philippe Petit ' "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" and Innovative Landscapes Laboratory's "Spontaneous Dimensions".

Many thanks to Julian Cowley for writing reviews for “The Modern Composition” column.

Wsłuchując się w albumu Philippea Petita można odczuć pewien element izolacjonizmu, czy też odrealnienia. Kompozycje te zbudowane są z dość

"Terrore nello spazio is music full of unease, manifested through signals, vibrations, or flickering glitches. It reveals a raw space that flashes in a rough, grainy hue. Music that forces us to focus on every scrape and tremor it contains. Alarm-like, conjured through soulless strikes.

Listening to the reviewed recordings by Philippe Petit, I get the impression that the artist aimed to convey a certain claustrophobic aura so that we could experience it. So that we could take part in every splitting of its rustle and every tear. In my opinion, it turned out brilliantly. Try this moving, rusty ornament of a haunted character. And by the way, do you remember the final lines that close Mario Bava’s film Terrore nello spazio?"

Michał Majcher @ Anxious Magazine

Spontaneous Dimensions (SUBLIME RETREAT SR020) is an album by Taras Opanasiuk, under the guise Innovative Landscapes Laboratory. As the world knows Taras is the owner of this excellent Polish label in Wroclaw. Here he demonstrates his gifts for very imaginative electro-acoustic composition, exhibiting a real skill in arranging and contrasting some pretty wild timbral shifts, unexpected layers, and uncanny other-worldly sounds. He immerses the listener instantly in his surreal, colourful environment, as surely as if he’d invented a chamber of living dreams. The artworks by Evan Crankshaw assist our entry into this alien library. I especially enjoyed ‘Unstable Limbo’, which creates a threatening storm of ambiguous tension in the brain, and ‘Maze of Distorted Dimensions’, for its successful re-creation of illusions and impossible spaces. Very intellectually stimulating and a satisfying listen. (12/08/2024)

28/12/2025 Ed Pinsent @ The Sound Projector

Review of “Emperor Tomato Kethcup” by Philippe Petit in The Wire, August 2025 Issue https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/498

Review of "Spontaneous Dimensions" by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory in The Wire, August 2025 Issue https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/498

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Reviews of releases from Sublime Retreat by Jan Willem Broek:

- Philippe Petit – The Emperor Tomato Ketchup

- Innovative Landscapes Laboratory - Spontaneous Dimensions

Artist: Innovative Landscapes Laboratory Title: Spontaneous Dimensions Label: Sublime Retreat Genre: Musique Concrete Format: CD Release: 20

Concrete that evokes the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi.

Wonderful review by irwidr of"Spontaneous Dimensions" by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory

Creaig Dunton writes about "Moments Lost" by Colin Andrew Sheffield in his review at Brainwashed:

"From the onset of the single piece on this CD, Sheffield’s aptitude in creating dynamic, ever shifting layers of sound that teeter between music and pure sound is immediately apparent. Noisy, sputtering delays and panning sections are paired with expansive, glistening layers of tonal beauty. As the piece goes on, some almost piano-like melodies float to the surface of crackling textures. As with his other works, it is ambiguous as to whether or not this is a more obvious bleed through of his source material, or if it is actually something else entirely that he has reshaped."

The Ex October closes with a macabre flourish — blackened gardens, elaborate yard displays of skeletons, Halloween, the day of the dead, a t

Bill Meyer writes about "Moments Lost" by Colin Andrew Sheffield @ Dusted Magazine

"Played at low volume, it could be your next go-to ambient recording. But if you spend time listening closely, perhaps while peering at the sleeve’s stills from a film that Sheffield played along with the music when he first presented it at the Molten Plains Festival in Denton in 2023, you might find your physique and consciousness sinking deep while you hit the play button over and over."

FALTER BRAMNK – MUSIC FOR LUMINOUS BACKGROUND (CD by Sublime Retreat) * JONATHAN DEASY – LE SACRE (CD by Sublime Retreat) * COLIN ANDREW SHE

3 reviews of Sublime Retreat releases in Vital Weekly !

FALTER BRAMNK – MUSIC FOR LUMINOUS BACKGROUND (CD by Sublime Retreat)

And sure enough, the music may be generated through improvisations, edited later on, the result is quite interesting. Maybe a bunch of shorter pieces is not what you expect from this label, but it works well in terms of variation. The music has a moody character, especially when Bramnk bowes his glass, and it gets a rather unsettling feeling. Sometimes, he plays slow and thoughtful, and on other occasions, a bit more chaotic and random, but nothing sounds all too traditional improvised percussion music.

JONATHAN DEASY – LE SACRE (CD by Sublime Retreat)

There is an orchestral aspect to the music; I wondered if I was listening to processed cello or trombone sounds at various times, and I realised it wasn’t. The slowly ascending and descending notes sometimes give the music a dramatic feeling. It’s movement too slow to fit a soundtrack (unless the film is of similar slowness), but it’s music to sit back and enjoy. Best enjoyed, at least here in these surroundings, on an average volume, and let this roll about slowly in my environment.

COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD – MOMENTS LOST (CD by Sublime Retreat)

While the music is very abstract, there is always a trace of a melody here, no matter how deeply buried in the music. There is the overall drone, though not long and never static, and there are smaller events below the current. None of the source material, described as “assorted vintage soundtrack LPs”, can be recognised because the treatments are that wide. And yet there is an orchestral feeling to the music, the soundtrack aspect shining through occasionally. With all the grainy and dark processing going on, this is very much the sort of thing one expects Sublime Retreat to release

Tajemnicze smyko-drony o bardziej krystalicznej barwie, niż zazwyczaj basowe pomruki, wkradają się w każdy możliwy fragment przestrzeni. Igr

"Loops swap places as if in a fluid kaleidoscope, transforming the mood or intensity of the composition's action. There is a lack of color here, a perfectly chosen monochromatic scale dominates, glittering, sparkling at the edges. This is a zone of memories, half-dream, free from stagnation, full of imagination." Review of "Moments Lost" by Colin Andrew Sheffield written by Marek "Lokis" Nawrot @ Anxious Musick Magazine.

Psychic functions, postmodern poetical romanticism and paranormal phenomena are summoned to generate an absorbing, menacing, dreary, ecstati

Psychic functions, postmodern poetical romanticism and paranormal phenomena are summoned to generate an absorbing, menacing, dreary, ecstatic and eerie cinematic experience. At a stylistic cross between Eric Holm, Mauricio Bianchi, Jim O Rourke, KTL, CM von Hausswolff, Christoph de Babalon, and Adam Pacione. Warmly recommended to any fan of adventurous and cerebral music with a strong, darkly cinematic and melancholic rumbling quality. 20-minutes of pure and exquisite musical levitation in the brooding spheres of the psyche.

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“Basically, every aspect of Moments Lost from the sounds within to the beautiful art and physical presentation is at the highest level.”

Review of "Moments Lost" by Colin Andrew Sheffield at Lost In A Sea Of Sound

"Spontaneous Dimensions" by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory played at Radio Gagarin

I've always been a music lover and have been listening to a lot of stuff since I was a teenager and I approached experimental music from dif

Interview with Sublime Retreat label owner Taras Opanasiuk by Artur Mieczkowski in Anxious Magazine

#sublime retreat #Taras Opanasiuk

W informacji dołączonej do wydawnictwa zapoznajemy się z procesem powstania tego materiału. Zgromadzone wielogodzinne, improwizowane sesje z

An excursion into the world of "Spontaneous Dimensions" by Marek Nawrot. Review of an album by Innovative Landscapes Laboratory in Anxious Musick Magazine

#sublime retreat #innovative landscapes laboratory

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Review of "Transient Spaces as Impermanent Lines" by Alfredo Costa Monteiro by Ken Lower in his wonderful blog "Lost In A Sea Of Sound"

The building material of modern civilization with the associated urban soundscape sometimes heard as sonic memories. Conscious saturates with extrinsic processing but the sounds within are also beautifully patient. Silent moments, long empty space droning with only the crunch of a footstep. Then quiet again until energy explodes in defined slow motion. All the time lost in the labyrinth Alfredo Costa Monteiro has most articulately created.

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