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Reblog – Mary Ocher‘s Cockeyed, Political Art-Pop ”Questions Everything”

March 14, 2017 Feminatronic

In-depth interview and recommend Mary Ocher’s music – never an outsider.

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Today’s Discovery – Doe Eye

March 14, 2017 Feminatronic

What a gorgeous sound this release has. Slightly off kilter, in a good way, ambient with depth. Doe Eye is the ambient/electronic project of recording engineer & producer Maryam Qudus. All physical proceeds will be donated to the ACLU & Planned Parenthood.

Website – https://www.ilovedoeeye.com/

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Review Reblog – Anne-F Jacques

March 7, 2017 Feminatronic

“Anne-F Jacques creates microscopic worlds of whirring machines, steampunk flea circuses of motorized sonics birthed from her collection of mechanical discs and wheels (‘rotating surfaces’), meticulously calibrated and often adjusted with weights or blocks to interfere with their natural balance…”
A lovely overview / Introduction to the work of Anne – F Jacques –

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Today’s Discovery – Campo Cercano (Near-field) by Mene Savasta

March 6, 2017 Feminatronic

This is a little different to my usual Discoveries as it does contain songs but it just caught my ear this morning and it is composed, arranged, produced and played by Mene Savasta, an artist from Buenos Aires.

“It is an intimate and experimental album where songs and freer compositions merge in an integral way. My voice and keyboards are orchestrated with soundscapes I recorded over recent years. At Campo Cercano, Mene Savasta sang, played synths and programmed sequences. The remaining orchestration are fragments of the aural enviroment, recorded at different times and places with a portable recorder.”

www.menesavasta.com.ar

Campo cercano (Near-field) was released as a website that offers an interactive visual experience – http://www.campocercano.com/

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An Album a Day pt4

March 2, 2017 Feminatronic

For the past couple of years I’m Gary (@noyokono) on twitter has a challenge for February – MWE
“Music Writer Exercise: Each day in February, listen to 1 full album you’ve never heard, from start to finish. Write one tweet about it. #MWE”
Ok, I’m no writer and although I listen to a lot of music everyday, this does spur me to listen to new discoveries. I did this last year and I’m attempting it again and here are the last albums –

MWE#22 – Challenging intriguing chansons of stifled anger and noise for grown-ups – LET THEM GROW by Maja Osojnik

MWE#23 – Experimental Grime, hints of Vaporwave and warped electro Gospel. A revelation that’s quite special –

MWE#24 – Black Quantum Futurism – Space-Time Collapse I – Connecting history with the future in multi layered sonic collages.

MWE#25 – Melodic chillout that moves the feet – Online Dating by Tryphème

MWE#26 – Alice Kemp – Uneasy listening with dark undercurrents creating claustrophobic atmospheres –

MWE#27 Sarah Rasines pyr124 –Gameboy, found sounds, loops + glitches create hypnotic toe tapping rhythmic patterns

MWE#28 Anne Gillis – Lxgrin – Relentless nightmarish experiments in voice, loops and repetition = Challenging and cathartic

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Today’s Discovery – All I can think about is this by Oddstep Deployment Unit

March 2, 2017 Feminatronic

Today’s Discovery is difficult to categorise but covers experimental, kosmische musik, Folktronica and voices –

“This album came out of live shows we were doing around 2010. The Cafe Concrete sound art collective in Plymouth asked us to document this work as limited edition CD, so we blasted out this collection of tracks in a two week period. This is an extensively revised version of that material. Every track has been remixed, many have been edited down to more concise structures and Sleepers, a track that didn’t make it onto the original release due to the strictures of the CD format has finally come home. FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM “

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Review Reblog – Ashley Bellouin – Ballads

February 26, 2017 Feminatronic

The focus for a couple of weeks is on all platforms is Artists whose surnames begin with B, so this fits perfectly and recommend a listen.

Everyday Ambient

Today’s featured album is an LP of drone compositions by a young avant-garde composer. This is Ms. Bellouin’s second LP overall and first for Drawing Room. The instruments played on this LP are as follows: harmonium, glass armonica, aluminum rods, electronics, electric guitar, and cello.

Side A of the LP begins with a looping drone that gradually gets louder. A bubbling melody comes in, and low, gritty, string-like tones emerge that evolve into a feeling of warmth and tranquility. Small shimmers of melody are added to the mix along with some ringing, chiming tones. As the track progresses, the low tones fade back and forth to the foreground and background. There is some repetitive bleeping, some use of volume, bright melody, and a good deal of texture.

Side B of the LP is much more ominous and uneasy. A high-pitched tone starts this track and moves into a low drone…

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An Album a Day pt3

February 21, 2017 Feminatronic

MWE#13 – How Dance should be – Hypnotic rhythmic earworms of wonderful noise – Plus Instruments – Trancesonics by Truus

MWE#14 – Disorientating the listener with destructive sound manipulation – Facies by Bella –

MWE#15 – Soundtrack to dense sonic nightmares – The Sleep in Opera by Ocean Viva Silver

MWE#16 – Like the weather it’s changeable with many layers of light + shade. Remain Calm – Mica Levi & Oliver Coates

MWE#17 – Defies easy categorisation but disparate elements combine into an avant garde delight. Headphone listening – Canned Fit – cucharas de arena (pyr139)