There has been a lot of publicity for the new Haiku Salut album Etch and Etch Deep but here is their debut as Todays Discovery, spurred on by the Yeah I Know it Sucks interview.
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REBLOG – interview with Haiku Salut
As expected, a different sort of interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks but that’s no bad thing. I’m just in time for a couple of gig plugs too : ))
Whilst I adore music in general, I very rarely fall head over heels for a band. So far my journalistic adventures have introduced you to two such acts, Twink and The Caring Babies. The advantage for these two acts is that they live across a big ocean, so can escape my overly earnest fandom. No such luck for Haiku Salut. From the moment I picked up their “How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb” EP I have been drawn into their magical, beautiful musical world, a journey which continued with their gorgeous debut album “Tricolore”. Listening to their music truly is that, a journey, through folk, electronica alongside glitches and chiptune influences, it’s music to which you can dream and escape the real world. The latest album “Etch and Etch Deep” continues where the other releases left off, whilst sounding incredibly confident and complete.
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REBLOG – Chosen One: Christina Vantzou
You know that feeling of happiness when you are waiting for a bus and two come along at the same time? Here is a wonderful in depth (and I mean it)interview with Christina Vantzou.
Courtesy to Fractured Air for the reblog.
Interview with Christina Vantzou.
“ I think about images a lot while working on sound, but in a very simplified way at first. I collect images and slowly individual scenes starts to form in mind. The feeling or level of tension the images would hold against the music is what I think about, rather than narrative.”
—Christina Vantzou
Words: Mark & Craig Carry
October 2015 saw the Kansas-born and Brussels-based artist and composer Christina Vantzou release her third solo album – ‘N°3’ – via Chicago-based independent Kranky. Vantzou – whose formidable body of work also spans the mediums of both visual art and film-making – began her own music career as one half (alongside Adam Wiltzie) of the duo The Dead Texan as the hybrid role of keyboardist/animator/video artist. The pair released their debut self-titled album in 2004 (Vantzou’s distinctive artwork graces the sleeve) and still ranks as one of the…
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INTERVIEW REBLOG – Phantasm Nocturnes (Betty Koster) interview
Phantasm Nocturnes has been on my Artist page for sometime and her music is on the Noise playlists. It’s pretty powerful music and so glad I can post this interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks
Hello dear reader; good to see you here! I’m KN and on my way to the house of Betty Koster for an interview. In case you have been hiding away under a gravestone; Betty Koster is the music producer fairly known for her work under the Phantasm Nocturnes (and PN-lobit) moniker. Her music is pretty special and in general pretty damn spooky too! I’ve always wanted to meet her, so recently I just asked if she would be up for an interview. She agreed and now I’m on my way to her home.. How exciting and glad you can come along, as I’m probably too excited to pull this one off all on my own.
Luckily it’s been a wonderful day weather wise, maybe she has a garden to sit and sunbathe for a bit.. We are close now.. A nice and posh looking neighborhood..
Betty Koster lives in a…
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INTERVIEW REBLOG – Step Right Up: La Nuit
Have followed Felicia Atkinson for a while and recommend listening to her work. Have been listening to this collaboration and suggest checking out La Nuit too.
Article and Interview courtesy to Fractured Air.
Interview with Félicia Atkinson & Peter Broderick (La Nuit).
“The words appeared to me like this, I don’t know, I like to improvise lyrics, it’s like day dreaming, you dig in your own soul and see what you can fish there.”
— Félicia Atkinson
Words: Mark Carry, Photographs: Félicia Atkinson
The music of Félicia Atkinson and Peter Broderick both surfaced to my attention around the same space in time, during 2008. John Xela’s Type imprint served the most trusted sources for independent music discoveries and two composers from the label’s roster particularly forged an indelible imprint, namely Peter Broderick and Sylvain Chauveau. ‘Float’s utterly captivating neo-classical-based compositions served a gateway into Broderick’s soaring songbook – that soon would follow with the gifted Portland musician’s ‘Home’ and ‘4-TrackSongs’ full-lengths – and across the years, any project conceived by Broderick (or shares his involvement in any way)…
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INTERVIEW REBLOG – Step Right Up: Moon Ate the Dark
Earlier this week I reblogged a review about Moon Ate the Dark (Headphone Commute) and here is an in depth interview with them courtesy of Fractured Air.
Interview with Moon Ate the Dark.
“..there is always a surprise and it keeps the music alive, which is what I think we both strive for whilst playing together.”
— Anna Rose Carter
Words: Mark Carry
Moon Ate the Dark is the neo-classical-infused-drone collaborative project between Welsh pianist Anna Rose Carter and Canadian producer Christopher Brett Bailey. The London-based transplants’ two full-length releases – 2012’s self-titled debut and this year’s highly-anticipated follow-up, both released on the prestigious Berlin-based imprint Sonic Pieces – forges a deeply affecting experience for the heart and mind: the rich, dense textures of Bailey’s production is masterfully inter-woven with Carter’s stunningly beautiful piano-based compositions.
Delicate and hushed tones of Anna Carter’s piano serve the opening notes to Moon Ate the Dark’s latest sonic journey –the mesmerising sophomore record, ‘Moon Ate theDarkII’ – whose fragile beauty radiates like the first rays of sunlight…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Interview with Dalot
Here are a couple of pieces courtesy of Headphone Commute shining a spotlight on the electroacoustic artist Dalot.
Hi Maria, what have you been up to lately?
I am still settling down to my new place/neighborhood since my move from NY to London during the summer.
How did you initially get signed to n5MD?
In 2009, I contacted n5MD to ask them if they would be interested in selling some copies of my EP via their mailorder website. They coincidentally liked it and they signed me.
What does your name Dalot mean and where does it come from?
Dalot is the french word for culvert. Back in the golden days of Myspace, I decided to open an account and I needed a username. Next to me there was a French Dictionary. I opened one of its pages by chance and Dalot was the first word I saw. I liked the look and sound of it and I kept it. Recently, I discovered that there are two areas that…
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EXPLORING THE BROADER CANVAS OF MUSIC
Here is the original article by AKSHATHASHETTY that led me to listen and discover the music of Ramsha Shakeel.
Courtesy to AKSHATHASHETTY for the reblog.
“My role as a musician is to sculpt harmonies out of sounds and vibrations which further the beauty of the cosmos. Music offers a subjective way of experiencing reality. From quarks, galaxies to the entire observable universe, everything is in motion. We have to develop an appreciation of the symphonic reality that we’re a part of. You know how sometimes we’re unable to ‘think straight’. I have come to realise that clarity of the mind forms only when you harmonise with your surroundings,” says Karachi-based Ramsha Shakeel, an experimental musician whose dabbles with macabre timbres and rhythmical depth has led to some incredible experiments within the drone and ambient world. Although the artiste’s musical journey is a synergistic collision of art, science and philosophy; it’s her metaphysical romance with the cosmos that perhaps best describes her tryst with music.
Like an ocean of formless waves, her sounds seem…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ELYSE TABET OF LITTER – AFRICAN PAPER
Studio guest: Liz Helman
Missed this but I have checked and you can still listen to the show on NTS and here is the link for FRACTAL MEAT ON A SPONGY BONE http://www.ntsradio.co.uk/shows/fractalmeat/
Studio guest on Friday 20th MArch will be Liz Helman: tune into NTS from 8am to 10am.
Liz Helman is a London-based artist and independent curator working across different media, including photography, video and sound. Manipulating her own recorded and found sound, she constructs atmospheric sound pieces, and in all her time-based media works, she explores the psychological and emotional attachment to place and dwelling. Journeying between recollection and reality, she challenges format driven orthodoxies, fragmenting and layering image and sound to consider the experience of dislocation and displacement.
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