Category Archives: #MWE

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

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)
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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


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

 

 

An Album a Day pt1

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 the first 6 –

#MWE 1 – Sundrowned – Lykanthea and Savage Sister
Dreamlike vocals that drift – Recommend headphones


#MWE2 – Moons of Pluto – Maria G
Resonant minimalist electroacoustic combining classical, jazz and electronic experimentalism.


#MWE 3 – About a Girl – Blessa

Lo fi, low key sparse experimentation from Blessa


#MWE 4 – Ten Love Songs by Susanne Sundfor

Anthemic, melodic, danceable with a classical tinge –


MWE # 5 –
Estórias para Voz, Instrumentos Acústicos e Eletrônicos” (Fermata Indústria Fonográfica, (1981) by Jocy de Oliveira

A mystical touch of Noh


MWE #6 – Aquator System by Eva Geist

Quirky, fun and filled with ideas, combining old and new