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REBLOG – Listen: Pieces of Juno – ‘Valentine’
Earlier in the week, when covering one of the latest tracks from Dream Wife, we apologised for missing the boat a little when it comes to Valentine’s Day-related musical material. Well, we have to apologise a second time (shame on us). Though to be fair, the latest track by Pieces of Junoisn’t exactly, directly, totally related to Valentine’s Day, it just happens to have a bit of a wordy connection to it.
But enough of our apologetic guff. We’re here to talk about the latest track from the Norwegian’s new instrumental EP Frisson, which comes out later this month on all-female collective KOSO. Kine Sandbaek Jensen has moved in all kinds of directions with her electronic project but from the sounds of ‘Valentine’ she’s continuing to experiment on this new collection. Starting out as a slow burner with a classical guitar lick, it soon gets taken over by some…
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AN ALBUM A DAY
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 –
Beautiful Introspection…
Rhythmic electroacoustic / field recordings with a sense of place and culture.
Glitch DJing disparate sounds into a cohesive soundscape
ARS SONOR – TRANSIENT / ETERNAL
Awakening drone…Space with a barbed wire edge
One to watch in 2016 –
SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT -Akane Hosaka
“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
TODAYS DISCOVERY -Julia White
‘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).
REVIEW REBLOG – Listen: ACRE TARN – ‘Dawn Faces’
Here is Todays Discovery – Acre Tarn and recommend listening to her Soundcloud page.
Courtesy to Notes on Sounds for the pointer and review.
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.
Melodic Instrumental – Matzumi
The latest playlist on Soundcloud #30 includes tracks from artists who create Melodic Instrumental music and Matzumi is one of the biggest names in this genre of electronic music.
One woman – one project ! New Age, Ambient and Soundtracks.
REVIEW REBLOG – Mila Severtseva – Resistance
Here is Todays Discovery of glitchy beat based electronics, care of Yeah I Know it Sucks.
artist: Mila Severtseva
title: Resistance
keywords: glitch, experimental, electronic, avantgarde, beats,
label: Wrieuw Recordings http://wrieuwrecordings.bandcamp.com/
Mila is a mixed media based in Saint Petersburg in Russia. I first came across her work via this great website called Far From Moscow which is well worth checking out. Anyway, at that point she was writing music as diu pii and it was excellent bare bones almost tribal sketches of electronica goodness. I got in touch to ask if she wanted to do a split release on floppy disk, which fortunately for me, she did. One thing Mila does very well is often very chaotic and colourful works of art, I find these very appealing, she did the awesome artwork for our release and has since done the same for releases with Liminal Noise Tapes and Effluvia Recordings.
Anyway, I am very pleased to present her EP “resistance” released under her own…
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REBLOG – Headphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Long Car Rides With My Family and Friends
Including review links to Bjork, FKA Twigs, Holly Herndon, Grimes and Julia Holter.
Source: Headphone Commute’s Best of 2015 : Music For Long Car Rides With My Family and Friends
ARTICLE REBLOG -SO! Amplifies: Sounding Board Curated by Leonardo Cardoso
Part two of the Art of Sound playlist is out on Soundcloud and the general focus this week is on Sound Art, in its’ widest sense, so this article came at the right time.
Courtesy to Sounding Out for the article reblog.
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SO! Amplifies. . .a highly-curated, rolling mini-post series by which we editors hip you to cultural makers and organizations doing work we really really dig. You’re welcome!
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The first annual Sounding Board sound exhibit was held at The Companion Gallery in Austin, Texas on December 3 – 6, 2015, as part of the 60th anniversary meeting of the Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM). In the promotional literature for the show, the curator, Leonardo Cardoso (Texas A&M), described its objective: to give students, ethnographers, ethnomusicologists, and any “sound-minded” people an opportunity to share research and contemplate fieldwork from different perspectives. Cardoso hoped that SEMSoundingBoard would “stimulate dialogue between ethnomusicology and other fields, especially sound studies, sound art, ecomusicology, anthropology, and media studies.” He also sought to facilitate interaction between the local community in Austin and SEM scholars who traveled to attend the conference.
I spoke with Cardoso about this…
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