This is a huge compilation, 60 electronic artists from several Latin American countries. Each track has a photo of the artist, a small bio and links where to hear their works or contact them.
“Job may have rued the futility of chasing the wind, but at least in one sense, this sound artist has managed to capture it. (Richard Allen)”
Exactly.
Aven refers to that which is hidden, yet still is heard: underground shafts through which air reaches the surface. Fascinated by Iceland’s natural geothermal activity, Bethan Kellough recorded the subterranean rumbles and upper-level hisses, and augmented them with wind recordings made in Iceland and South Africa. Only the very trained ear will be able to distinguish the difference between South African wind and Icelandic wind (Savannah bush, strands of straw), but neither identification nor deception is her intention. This soundscape is inspired by the very nature of sound.
While field recordings are the lead story, the artist also plays violin. Her gentle strings allow her to shape the soundscape into a personal reflection. What do you hear in these sounds? she asks without words. What drama can be heard in rising rumbles and twists of wind? To escape through a shaft from an underground cave is to act out a myth…
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This is the danger for me or a good thing for you, that one link leads to another. Looking at the discography from Heavy Mess, a discrete cassette label. currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah and where you can find Teasips’ album from an earlier post, I came across this intriguing release from Heejin Jang.
“Crafting field recordings and digital noise into a sonic sculpture that is as hypnotic as it is chaotic. A perfect dose of ambience and frenzy.
A statement from the artist:
“The four ambient pieces that comprise “Binary Breath” are about the transpositions that had taken over my mind and body, generating a code in cipher.”
Please allow me to introduce you to the cleansing, evocative music of Teasips (Angela Frances Wilson; she’s also one half of Electric Sound Bath). Enveloped in a sightless fog, these slow moving songs rise up and out of wide, cold lakes, at first bubbling to the surface and then leaving behind a line of gentle ripples, like […]
Here’s my Todays Discovery – the artist Marielle V Jakobsons and I’m not going to add anything to this except listen…
…and read..
Quick – how many solo synth and violin artists can you name? If you came up with more than three, we salute you. We last encountered Marielle V Jakobsons as the “J” in EJS, whose album was included in our winter recommendations; but here she presents a new sound for a new season. Glass Canyon is even different from her last solo outing, Ore (recorded as Darwinsbitch), in that her abstractions have grown more accessible. This is not to say that these tracks are friendly, how-do-you-do handshakers, but that the album as a whole declares, “Your efforts to understand me will be rewarded within a reasonable span.”
The mood of these six pieces is reflective without being mournful; they betray a deep concentration, an attention to craft. Synth and violin are not natural partners, but Jakobsons fits them together like soulmates on an internet dating site. “From…
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artist: Various title: Sobre Cintas keywords: argentina experimental experiemental improvisation jazz and improvised music noise Argentine label: Adaptador Records “Sobre Cintas is an eclectic compilation of audio files where the only line that links each selected audio is the use of the magnetic recording as sound recording mode. // “ – I have no idea […]
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Last week the focus was Latin American artists, so this follows on . This is a diverse collection of electroacoustic, jazz, noise, tape and experimental utilising magnetic recording.
Here is a piece by Alma Laprida to demonstrate –
If you are interested in finding out more about Ramona Andra Xavier aka Vektroid this is a great article.
artist: Elisa Luu title: Enchanting Gaze keywords: pop acoustic electronica experimental folk Italy label: http://labelnetlabel.com/ \ Elisa Luu’s Enchanting Gaze is an album that is of the pretty kind, something that lightens up and gives that special sparkle of a having a wonderful day. Not unlike other releases, this one has tracks inside. Let me […]
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So glad this has been picked up for review as it is a release of beautiful folktronica with a twist.
There is a rich history of Electronic and Electroacoustic music in South American and Latin American countries with some of the greatest pioneers including Jacqueline Nova and Beatriz Ferreyra. This rich culture of experimentalism has been built upon by modern artists. Below are two playlists that are the starting points to discovering more.
Jacqueline Nova
Feminatronic 
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