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Review Reblog – Maria W Horn ~ Epistasis
“There’s a certain intensity to it, gazing into something too vast to apprehend, but small enough to take in, ”
This review says it all, so nothing to add except its’ sparseness seems to reflect my present mood – undercurents of unease or it could be the falling rain against the window.
Where last year’s Kontrapoetik was furious and direct, Epistasis is passionate and exploratory, structured like an ouroboros that in completing its form comes to both an end and a beginning. One depends on the other, the circularity of this mythical figure not so much an instance of unmoving things but of action and reaction, chains of effects whose relationships are anything but linear.
The “Interlocked Cycles” – the first and last tracks in the album – are thus the setup and the finale, a loop in which every instrument and every note aims for the subtle dissolution of the straight musical line. Like the snow in the cover, an almost White on White composition, the players lay down sheet after sheet of tones that, even when conforming clearly cut sequences, feels like staring into the sky. There’s a certain intensity to it, gazing into something too vast to apprehend, but…
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Reblog – Ana Mazzotti’s Smooth Samba-Jazz is Rescued From Obscurity — Bandcamp Daily
The Far Out label reissues two LPs by the disciple of Hermeto Pascoal.
via Ana Mazzotti’s Smooth Samba-Jazz is Rescued From Obscurity — Bandcamp Daily
Not strictly electronic, but sometimes I think it’s good to plug something you really like and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ana Mazzotti is one such artist.
Brazilian jazz, latin soul, world, bossa nova, brazilian funk, jazz latin, samba, soul-jazz
Reblog – The Mirror by People Like Us — The Future of Music One Record at a Time – ToneShift
People Like Us | The MirrorDiscrepant (LP/DL) People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) has most definitely left her indelible mark on the world of experimental sound since the early 90’s, now and forever. Released on vinyl by Discrepant these eleven tracks on The Mirror were previously out on CD last year (Cutting Hedge). Bennett’s signature brand […]
via The Mirror by People Like Us — The Future of Music One Record at a Time
People Like Us ( Vicki Bennett) is a true master of the dark arts of plunderphonics.
You get to my age and it’s spot the song from my past but it’s done with such seemless magic that something so familiar becomes wholly new and shiny.
Vicki Bennett reflects on The Mirror, unlocking the archives and a curious cease and desist order
Reblog – Ka Baird’s Transcendent Experimentalism — Bandcamp Daily
The Spires That In The Sunset Rise member considers the negotiations between bodies and environments, time and space.
via Ka Baird’s Transcendent Experimentalism — Bandcamp Daily
I have known of Ka Baird’s music since starting this journey and I always felt that here was an artist who was wonderfully creative and expressive in her art.
This was proved to me when I watched her performance at Tusk Festival here in the UK via the livestream. Her presence on the stage was sheer “ecstatic energy and a cathartic experience” and her vocal manipulations and electronic processing of her flute was a joy to watch and listen.
But hey, don’t listen to me, make your own minds up –
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” +/- is a two-track 30-minute lush synth exploration by the Kiev-based artist. Dramatic tempo shifts, devilish arpeggios and bittersweet synth sounds are at the core of this gem of an album.”
Electronic, ambient electronic, progressive, synth
Don’t be lulled into a false state of quietness…..
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Dominique Vaccaro: field recordings, tape manipulation, stereo looper
Experimental, abstract, field recordings, free form, improvisation, minimalist, reel to reel, tape loops, tape manipulation, tape music, texture.
Thanks to Toneshift for leading me to tonight’s listening. Read the review here –
ICYMI – Hidden Gems: Various Artists, “Rien Ni Personne—A French Compilation” — Bandcamp Daily
An overwhelming, glorious survey of the French experimental underground.
via Hidden Gems: Various Artists, “Rien Ni Personne—A French Compilation” — Bandcamp Daily
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Classical
Reblog – Apophenia by Ale Hop
Ale Hop | Apophenia
Buh Records (LP/DL)
Ale Hop (Alejandra Cardenas) is a Peruvian composer, based in Berlin and Apophenia (her sophomore effort after 2017’s Bodiless) is my second-look introduction to her work. Much of what Cardenas brings to the table are intriguing a/v eye of the mind processed through video and performance. What comes through as strictly audio should, in fact, be the soundtrack (or motto) for what we always strive to capture at Toneshift, a pure experimental spirit that abridges many genres and by-passes many more, in temporal vignettes that are 100% exploratory and fearless.
There are gentle, fleeting passages to Augury (as seen above) which starts these eight tracks with a heck of a moody ground. The percussion is sparse and spacey at times, the springing, bending effects play atop a near black backdrop, like counting stars. This is not a drone record, but manages to…
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