Modern Classical release that demonstrates just how contemporary and modern the Ondes Martenot is, despite its age – avant garde, modernist, frail and ethereal but also experimental.
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Review Reblog – Christine Ott ~ Only Silence Remains
Christine Ott is “one of the few people in the world who can be considered an expert on the Ondes Martenot, a strange keyboard invented in 1928, which can sound like anything from a theremin to a screech of strings.” but it can sound otherworldly and beautiful.
This is one beguiling record. It starts with opera and ends with poetry, and in the end, only silence remains. The opening soprano segment makes an immediate statement: this is not conventional music. By the middle of the set, one may forget this fact, but on “Tempête” it returns with a vengeance.
The storied career of Christine Ott provides clues to understanding her approach. She’s been part of Yann Tiersen’s band, collaborated with Radiohead, worked alongside Oiseaux-Tempête, and is currently opening for Tindersticks. She’s also one of the few people in the world who can be considered an expert on the Ondes Martenot, a strange keyboard invented in 1928, which can sound like anything from a theremin to a screech of strings. For most of the album she holds back on this instrument, but sneaks it in, bit by bit, until it takes over the sound field. Those early moments…
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Rokaia ~ See | Dwell
Finally have got around to reading and listening after a suggestion and glad I did. Intriguing find and look forward to the full release.
We have a very good feeling about Limerick, Ireland’s Rokaia, whose debut release seems a harbinger of things to come. See | Dwell may be a short beginning, but it’s a strong one. Like Ian William Craig, Holly Herndon and Katie Gately, Rokaia operates in the realm of textural, melodic voice, a sub-genre within the larger realm of experimental voice. The outer edge of experimentalism tests the boundaries of listenability through scream and guttural snarl, but artists such as these win us over with sheer beauty and grace.
It’s easy to put Sea | Dwell on repeat, as it comes across as a series of waves that never crash. Layer upon layer of Rokaia’s voice slide gently over their predecessors, while manipulations in the lower register provide the base. Using electronics to chop, stutter and loop her voice, the artist provides an impression of obsessive composition and precise control…
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Article Reblog – How Oakland’s Experimental Music Scene Became Queerer, Browner, and More Femme
Today’s Discovery – Golden Diskó Ship ~ Imaginary Boys
A wonderful suggestion led to Today’s Discovery – Thanks ACL : )
On most albums, there’s a single moment in which one leans into the album or leans away. On Imaginary Boys, the moment arrives early, at 2:02 of the opening track. The Middle Eastern groove of “Flaming Flamingo” has already been established with bass and breath, when suddenly the timbre shifts to modern composition with field recordings. Only 22 seconds later, it shifts again to the tone of a suspense film in a darkened cinema. But the track ends with the dominant presence of Theresa Stroetges’ wordless voice, flying speaker to speaker over a series of boings and light percussion. This type of music is worth one’s full attention.
As Golden Diskó Ship, Stroetges has been making creative music for years, at first drawing comparisons to other artists, but now coming into her own. She’s one of a group of inventive artists who subvert the ideas of radio-friendly music without dismantling them…
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Review Reblog – Valentina Villarroel – Sin Titulo
Artist: valentinavillarroel
Title: Sin Titulo
Keywords:ambient circuit bending experimental hacking circuit recordings recordings Concepción
Stumbling upon valentinavillarroel’s Sin Titulo through the Feminiatronic website and loving it’ was exactly what had happened to me & could have happened to you too. My coincidental stumble was a good one as before I knew it I felt surrounded by the possibilities of circuit bending, electronics and music that had not been heard before. Titulo had the warm sounds of electronic niftiness all crackling and rattling in a super nice way, the only familiarities had to be something that sounded like a beat; how exciting!
I don’t know how exactly these tracks on the Sin Titulo had been made, but they come across born through pure experimentation. Sin Titulo number two has something that made me think of the higher animalistic spirit from a cyborg-mouse in heath & it sounded so alive that…
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Review Reblog – Dawn Tuesday – Papilionidae
So glad this release has been noticed and it’s dark ambient beauty.
Artist: Dawn Tuesday
Title: Papilionidae
Keywords: ambient dark ambient electronic musicexperimental noise Alaska
It’s always fun to discover new music and artist you had never heard from before. Even if the artist you discover isn’t exactly bringing a very fun sounding release towards your eager ears. Dawn Tuesday’s Papiliondae for example isn’t like a fun-fair ride filled with clowns and jokes, but a very serious sounding soundscape that will suck you in with its intrusive dark ambient. I say dark, but it’s not all too dark, there is a great feel of warm prettiness to it that makes it more into the grayer areas of ambiance music. With distinctive flows that fly gracefully like a butterfly through the air, all on different heights and moods this release takes over the senses in a most captivating way.
Part 2 has also a serene beauty over it, also a form of sadness…
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Today’s Discovery – sin titulo – Valentina Villarroel
Ambient, circuit bending, experimental, hacking.
Valentina Villarroel is a sound artist / experimental composer from Concepción, Chile.
Brilliant site about Circuit Bending and the Workshops that Valentina puts on – http://talleressonoros.blogspot.co.uk/
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Review Reblog – Andie Brown & Sharon Gal – Mami Wata
“Mami Wata is the debut recording of the duo of Andie Brown, the ex-Cindytalk bassist now working primarily with glass and electronics, and ‘vocal experimentalist’ Sharon Gal, who also plays electronics and recordings. It’s the latest CD-R release on French micro-label Wild Silence……” – Dalston Sound
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