“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
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.”
Campo cercano (Near-field) was released as a website that offers an interactive visual experience – http://www.campocercano.com/
An Album a Day pt4
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
Today’s Discovery – All I can think about is this by Oddstep Deployment Unit
Today’s Discovery is difficult to categorise but covers experimental, kosmische musik, Folktronica and voices –
Review Reblog – Ashley Bellouin – Ballads
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.
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
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 next 9 albums –
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)
MWE#18 – Europop meets dark ambient and where anthemic joyous mixes belie a very serious subject. Arms / Remixed by Mary Ocher.
MWE#19 – Real Spacemusic which is a feast for the ears – Lunar by Madeleine Cocolas
MWE#20 – The sound equivalent of a flickering TV as you channel jump incessantly – ces by florconvenas
MWE#21 – Sparse fragile static and radio conjure images of windswept shorelines – at waters edge by Lyn Goeringer
Today’s Discovery – Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”
“Remain Calm” is steeped in classical music, yet keen enough to blend contemporary styles—like grime, techno and drone.
via Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm” — Bandcamp Daily
Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”
Like the weather,it’s changeable with a multitude of layers of light and shade.
An Album a Day pt2
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 but I did this last year and I’ attempting it again and here are next 6 albums –
MWE#7 – Fire-Toolz / Even the Files won’t touch you –
A Halloween carnival ride of twisted electronic alt reality
MWE#8 – Treeborhood – Boreal Network
Soundtrack to an 80’s film I wished I’d seen…
MWE#9 – The bitter tears of Petra von Kant/ Reiner Werner Fassbinder . OST – Nalyssa Green
A meld of two sonic worlds, ancient and modern
MWE#10 – Dreamscapes by Barton McLean
Sound pictures that fill the senses from an electronic music pioneer
MWE#11 – Pink Waves – Female Focussed Sounds – Urban Arts Berlin
A showcase of intriguing contrasts
MWE#12 – Ore – darwinsbitch (Marielle V Jakobsons)
A cosmic and terrestrial soundscape of foreboding
Review Reblog – Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core
This week Feminatronic playlist#95 is titled Quiet Times, music to just sit back, shut your eyes and really listen to and this album fits right into that category, with a heady mix of psyche ambience.
Artist: Marielle V Jakobsons
Title: Star Core
keywords: ambient classical cosmic experimental new age synthesizer Oakland
This pretty enlightening kind-of-an-album by multi-instrumentalist Marielle V Jakobsons starts with a nice spacious melodic amount of White Sparks. For some reason it gives me a winter-time feeling; snowflakes, socks hanging in the window, little lights and driving home for a futuristic Christmas. The melodies are nicely waved into each other creating a slow web of kind psychedelics that brings out a voice from deep within, something that seems to function as the kind of star to follow in order to find directions to a little hostel in the wintering white sparkling landscape.
Then the music changes into a warmer zone, some place in which psychedelics are teaming up with Persian hallucinations, harems, flying carpenters, bottles of smoke and graceful strings that belly dance their hour glass shapes on a floor full of comfortable…
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