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AN ALBUM A DAY

March 2, 2016 Feminatronic

This is not totally different for me but last month I accepted the challenge, like many others, to listen to and write short notes on an album a day during February 2016. I thought I would post up these here as part of my Todays Discovery theme.

Not in any order of preference here are the first 5 –

GROUPER – RUINS

Beautiful Introspection…

VALENTINA VILLARROEL – ALKUN

Rhythmic electroacoustic / field recordings with a sense of place and culture.

KLARA LEWIS – ETT

Glitch DJing disparate sounds into a cohesive soundscape

ARS SONOR – TRANSIENT / ETERNAL

Awakening drone…Space with a barbed wire edge

SEA CHANGE – BREAKAGE

One to watch in 2016 –

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SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT -Akane Hosaka

February 22, 2016 Feminatronic

“With her lunging rhythms and deliciously retro melodies, Akane Hosaka catapults us into a world of gleeful wallabies and drummer-boy monkeys.Her discovery of music came through song, and only later led to instrumental experimentation.References to her early influences, the 60s and 70s precursors of electropop, are deliberate, there for all to see: Raymond Scott, Perrey & Kingsley or Yellow Magic Orchestra. Nevertheless her true inspiration is from the visual world and lies in graphic forms and architectural fantasy:Keiji Ito, Archigram or Bruno Munari.For her, these images evoke musicthat she then sets about transcribing.Naturally reserved, she’s a perfectionist in her work. Seeing her in the studio is like watching a blacksmith in the smithy, as she bends her music into the required shapes.
Her compositions are like pastel-coloured soap bubbles in extra-bright Super 8.”
http://www.sonore.com

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TODAYS DISCOVERY -Julia White

February 22, 2016 Feminatronic

‘in the cities of dust’ a magnetic beauty sized in rough Diamond … for you.
Trained to noisey & punk rock, she offers us 9 pretty soothed thumbnails of pure beauty.” (David Teboul / Soft Recordings).

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REVIEW REBLOG – Julia White – In the Cities of Dust [Soft]

February 22, 2016 Feminatronic

It was suggested that I listen to this release and I’m glad I did..

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REVIEW REBLOG – Lea Bertucci ~ Axis/Atlas

February 22, 2016 Feminatronic

I can always rely on A Closer Listen to widen horizons sonically and this is no exception…

a closer listen

Those who view New York artist Lea Bertucci as a bass clarinetist are missing the bigger picture. Fresh from her residency at Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room and already preparing for two other residencies, Bertucci has proven herself to be a visual artist, sound designer, improvisor and curator. She seldom plays the bass clarinet without electronic manipulation; and sometimes, she doesn’t play it at all.

Those familiar with Bertucci’s work from our past reviews, or even from her live performances, should throw out everything they know when considering the new release. To start, the opening cut is a flute piece: a sound collage that incorporates “an earworm from the Bulgarian folk song Dragano Draganke.” The collage imagines the process of forgetting, or at least trying to forget, a melody that is already embedded in the mind. As one can imagine, the process fails, while the composition does not. The more Bertucci alters…

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REVIEW REBLOG – Iris Garrelfs: Breathing Through Wires

February 12, 2016 Feminatronic

Wow, just came across this review and I find this release is a free download. Had to reblog on both counts…

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Todays Discovery Reblog -the beauty of joan la barbara (scores and photographs)

February 9, 2016 Feminatronic

Something a little different as my Todays Discovery is this website – The Hum Blog. Recommended.

The Hum Blog

I’m a huge fan of Joan La Barbara. Her LP The Voice Is The Original Instrument is one of my favorite documents of the 1970’s NY avant-garde. La Barbara is a master of advanced vocal technique. In addition to her own remarkable creative output, she’s had a long career working with many of the greatest names in avant-garde composition – John Cage, Robert Ashley, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, David Tudor, and her husband Morton Subotnick. In my wanderings around the internet I’ve come across some of her wonderful scores and images of performances etc. I thought I’d pass them along. To see and learn more visit her website.

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REBLOG -joan la barbara vocalizing the alphabet on sesame street in 1977

February 9, 2016 Feminatronic

This is somewhat strange for me as I used to watch Sesame Street and always loved the songs (and Grover). I particularly remember the Ladybug Picnic,so when this came up on my reader I had to have a look and I remember this…Strange? Not Joan La Barbara, lets’ make that clear. It’s just all these years later I have finally discovered who created the wonderful vocal soundtrack to my early life…pretty cool.

The Hum Blog

My dear friend Koen just sent this to me, via our mutual friend Byron, in response to my post on Joan La Barbara. Thanks to them both. I have a palpable memory of the sequence, and particularly the sound, from childhood, but haven’t seen it since. It’s a wonderful fragment from a time when experimental music bled into the mainstream, and planted its seeds in us all. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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REVIEW REBLOG – Listen: ACRE TARN – ‘Dawn Faces’

February 4, 2016 Feminatronic

Here is Todays Discovery – Acre Tarn and recommend listening to her Soundcloud page.
Courtesy to Notes on Sounds for the pointer and review.

NOTES, ON SOUNDS....

Hailing from The Lake District, Anna-Louisa Ehterington began impressing with her dreampop tunes last year with ‘Flex’ and ‘Lanterns.’ As ACRE TARN she’s been leading anyone who’ll follow down a rabbit hole that leads to a synth wonderland that’s hypnotic but propulsive enough to still get you dancing.

Her latest track ‘Dawn Faces’ doesn’t deviate too much from that already winning formula, instead pairing beautiful melodies and flittering synths together like we’ve become accustomed to. Still, it’s definitely not a sign of ACRE TARN slowing down, as ‘Dawn Faces’ might be her most engaging single yet; that’s in part due to the ethereal chanting Etherington adds and the weighty drums that keep the featherweight instrumentation grounded. Perhaps if Robyn spent a year listening to only the Cocteau Twins you’d get something that sounds like this. But Etherington beat her to it.

Listen to ‘Dawn Faces’ below.

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