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I am an electronic musician who, as someone recently said to me, set up Feminatronic to act as "soft PR" for female electronic artists from all genres and styles. If I can give a little helping hand then why not?
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Review Reblog – Ashley Bellouin – Ballads

The focus for a couple of weeks is on all platforms is  Artists whose surnames begin with B, so this fits perfectly and recommend a listen.

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Today’s featured album is an LP of drone compositions by a young avant-garde composer. This is Ms. Bellouin’s second LP overall and first for Drawing Room. The instruments played on this LP are as follows: harmonium, glass armonica, aluminum rods, electronics, electric guitar, and cello.

Side A of the LP begins with a looping drone that gradually gets louder. A bubbling melody comes in, and low, gritty, string-like tones emerge that evolve into a feeling of warmth and tranquility. Small shimmers of melody are added to the mix along with some ringing, chiming tones. As the track progresses, the low tones fade back and forth to the foreground and background. There is some repetitive bleeping, some use of volume, bright melody, and a good deal of texture.

Side B of the LP is much more ominous and uneasy. A high-pitched tone starts this track and moves into a low drone…

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News – YSWN – Finding other groups/networks/blogs

 


 

 

So many groups now exist with various goals, and a collective motivation to support women, girls and all genders who do not identify as cis men. This map has been created by the Yorkshire Sound Wom…

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An Album a Day pt3

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer and although I listen to a lot of music everyday, this does spur me to listen to new discoveries. I did this last year and I’m attempting it again and here are next 9 albums –

 

MWE#13 – How Dance should be –  Hypnotic rhythmic earworms of wonderful noise – Plus Instruments – Trancesonics by Truus

 

MWE#14 – Disorientating the listener with destructive sound manipulation – Facies by Bella –

 

MWE#15 – Soundtrack to dense sonic nightmares – The Sleep in Opera by Ocean Viva Silver

 

MWE#16 – Like the weather it’s changeable with many layers of light + shade. Remain Calm – Mica Levi & Oliver Coates

MWE#17 – Defies easy categorisation but disparate elements combine into an avant garde delight. Headphone listening  –  Canned Fit – cucharas de arena (pyr139)
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MWE#18 – Europop meets dark ambient and where anthemic joyous mixes belie a very serious subject. Arms / Remixed by Mary Ocher.

MWE#19 – Real Spacemusic which is a feast for the ears – Lunar by Madeleine Cocolas

MWE#20 – The sound equivalent of a flickering TV as you channel jump incessantly – ces by florconvenas 

MWE#21 – Sparse fragile static and radio conjure images of windswept shorelines – at waters edge by Lyn Goeringer

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Friday Focus – Audible Women

 

Audible Women is an online directory for women who make some kind of art that can be listened to. It is open to women who make sound, sound art, noise and music (acoustic or electronic) with a bit of an experimental and exploratory bent—interpret that as you will.

http://www.audiblewomen.com/
Audible Women – http://www.audiblewomen.com/
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Review Reblog – Sound Impression: Lunar by Madeleine Cocolas [Self Center Records]

A feast for the ears…

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Today’s Discovery – Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”

 

 

“Remain Calm” is steeped in classical music, yet keen enough to blend contemporary styles—like grime, techno and drone.

via Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm” — Bandcamp Daily

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Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”

Like the weather,it’s changeable with a multitude of layers of light and shade.

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An Album a Day pt2

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are next 6 albums –

MWE#7 –  Fire-Toolz / Even the Files won’t touch you –

A Halloween carnival ride of twisted electronic alt reality

MWE#8 – Treeborhood – Boreal Network

Soundtrack to an 80’s film I wished I’d seen…

MWE#9 – The bitter tears of Petra von Kant/ Reiner Werner Fassbinder . OST – Nalyssa Green

A meld of two sonic worlds, ancient and modern

MWE#10 – Dreamscapes by Barton McLean

Sound pictures that fill the senses from an electronic music pioneer

MWE#11 – Pink Waves – Female Focussed Sounds – Urban Arts Berlin

A showcase of intriguing contrasts

MWE#12 – Ore – darwinsbitch (Marielle V Jakobsons)

A cosmic and terrestrial soundscape of foreboding

 

 

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Review Reblog – Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core

This week Feminatronic playlist#95 is titled Quiet Times, music to just sit back, shut your eyes and really listen to and this album fits right into that category, with a heady mix of psyche ambience.

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Artist: Marielle V Jakobsons
Title: Star Core
keywords: ambient classical cosmic experimental new age synthesizer Oakland

This pretty enlightening kind-of-an-album by multi-instrumentalist Marielle V Jakobsons starts with a nice spacious melodic amount of White Sparks. For some reason it gives me a winter-time feeling; snowflakes, socks hanging in the window, little lights and driving home for a futuristic Christmas. The melodies are nicely waved into each other creating a slow web of kind psychedelics that brings out a voice from deep within, something that seems to function as the kind of star to follow in order to find directions to a little hostel in the wintering white sparkling landscape.

Then the music changes into a warmer zone, some place in which psychedelics are teaming up with Persian hallucinations, harems, flying carpenters, bottles of smoke and graceful strings that belly dance their hour glass shapes on a floor full of comfortable…

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Today’s Discovery – Karine Dumont

Discovered via Many Many Women

Ice Data by Karine Dumont

Kalalunatic / Karine Dumont is a musician and composer, working mostly on electroacoustic and improvised music.
She has worked for many years with theatre companies producing original scores as well as creating her own personal compositions. She also plays the soprano saxophone, using it as a tone generator or noise maker.