Thanks to A Closer Listen I came across this new release. A supporter on Bandcamp referred to it as Kafkaesque. It’s challenging but not impenetrable, dark and rhythmic making this release danceable but with a difference.
Category Archives: Bandcamp
Review Reblog – Gaël Segalen ~ Memoir of My Manor
After 2o years of sound work and field recording, Gaël Segalen finally released her first LP. 2016’s L’Ange Le Sage was melodic and abrasive in equal quantities. Memoir of My Manor continues in this vein, adding a new, nearly club-like sensibility. The Parisian artist calls her compositions “danceable field recording”, but the first album only hinted at the dance floor, while the second flaunts this facet before drawing back to the shadows. This is appropriate for an album inspired by monsters, although the creature on the cover doesn’t seem all that scary.
The thirteen-minute “Remember” pulses and broods, while failing to give an indication of the artist’s rough edges. Instead, it operates as a dangerous mirror to Giorgio Moroder’s “The Chase”, inviting listeners to run rather than dance. When additional synths enter, the track takes on a near-industrial sheen. It’s a bold opening gambit, daring listeners to stick around for…
View original post 256 more words
Today’s Discovery #2 – Theda Hammel on Giving Sondheim the Synth Treatment
Sometimes you just come across something that makes you sit up and listen….
Focus Reblog – In the studio with Poppy Ackroyd
Let’s start at the very beginning. Can you tell us how you got involved in composing, and what was your very first piece of gear? My first piece of equipment was an Electro Harmonix 2880 super multi-track looper. It looks really simple but is surprisingly versatile. I wrote the original version of my track ‘Grounds’ […]
via In the studio with Poppy Ackroyd — Headphone Commute
Here’s another article about the composer Poppy Ackroyd and the methods and tech she uses in the studio to create her music.
Reblog – Duologue: A Conversation with Poppy Ackroyd — Stationary Travels
With her 2012 debut ‘Escapement’, Brighton-based composer Poppy Ackroyd entered the same rare air as such esteemed innovators of modern classical and electronic music as Nils Frahm and Hauschka. Classically trained on violin and piano, she creates utterly mesmerizing music by manipulating and multi-tracking sounds primarily from these two instruments in sometimes unconventional ways, an approach […]
via Duologue: A Conversation with Poppy Ackroyd — Stationary Travels
Today’s Discovery – Music For Candy Shops LP by Poly Chain
Thanks to Machine Woman on Twitter, I came across Today’s Discovery –
Music For Candy Shops LP
by Poly Chain …
” Brand new Transatlantyk release contains elusive synth works of Sasha Zakrevska aka Poly Chain. She likes to call herself “a Ukrainian ambient chavette” and the title of her debut album is a tongue-in-cheek spin on the Eno’s classic. “Music For Candy Shop” is much more sticky and syrupy than its famous predecessor though. In every track on this record Poly Chain’s rich and warm synth textures are glazed with another layer of radioactive sweeting. From atonal melodies on top to occasional spicing in form of odd reverbs, delays and drum sounds – it’s all there. Let me tell you straight up: this candy shop serves some weird sort of sweets, inducing hallucinations, anxious feelings of omniscience and transcendency. Use with caution!”
Released February 24, 2017
Review Reblog – Dawn Tuesday – Moons of Jupiter
Not enough women creating Space Music, although it also has the tag of Dark Ambient, but here’s one…..
Artist: Dawn Tuesday
Title: Moons of Jupiter
Keywords:ambient dark ambient electronic musicexperimental noise Alaska
You might have missed your daily amount of updates at this humble place, if not & if so; no worries! It was just the amount of sunny sunshine & the busy super activities had been sucking up all the precious music listening times. Count that, plus a triple return ticket to the Moons of Jupiter & you could imagine that it was hard to update our digital abode like we normally would.
Let me tell you about the triple trip to these super moons; it was unreal! It was a hefty twenty minute flight each, but felt like it was a trip close to a life-time achievement, traveling to the far side of the greater secrets of the universe. I don’t think we even took a space ship to go, in fact I can just…
View original post 104 more words
Reblog – Album of the Day: Laurel Halo, “Dust”
Today’s Discovery – Are Euphoria by Dustin Wong & Takako Minekawa
Reblog – The Transcendent Sound of Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa
Joyous creativity when I listen to this release : )
You must be logged in to post a comment.