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Review Reblog – Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS

Sometimes a reviewer hits the nail on the head and this review just seems to put into words the overall feeling of this release.

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Artist: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
title: EARS
keyword: experimental

this album starts like a young baby bird that is kindly being pushed out of its homely nest . It opens its tiny little wings and realizes that is had captured the miraculous ability to fly in the great sky. It is so happy that the bird starts to sing with wide wakened eyes along with a euphoric feeling of success. Within its little feathered body it realizes that the whole world is at its tiny feet!

Then the album moves on with its audio appreciative wings all over an intriguing scene of the wetlands. This is the place in which frogs & toads gather and fishes stick their heads out of the water to see and hear what this wonderful music is all about. It’s Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s music and she brings it all out to give the soggy landscape a…

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Review Reblog – Teasips – Proxemic Realms

So glad this release has been noticed : )

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Artist: Teasips
title: Proxemic Realms
keywords: ambient art electronic experimental noise outsider United States
label:heavy mess

If you need some fresh air & some nature in your life with melodic atmospheres, but do not really feel like going out and exploring such real life things, or perhaps are living in the middle of a dense city; this pretty easy going release (found through Feminatronics) might be something for you.

12′ introduces the beautiful ear-sights of a soft field recording with friendly night crickets, and a little fine fresh breeze among the leaves. These are the first sounds of a really nice evening, one without any urban disturbance; making it an instant home pleaser for the homely people who are equipped with a nice audio set.

The work will continue with 4′ which consists of a pleasantly played warm melody seemingly made out of glass, (not broken but smooth)…

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Reblog – the arandel ‎/ bog bog / electronic ladyland mixtape (one of the greatest assemblies of women’s avant-garde electronic music ever made)

…and you can get the tape here…
https://arandel.bandcamp.com/album/bog-bog-the-electronic-ladyland-mixtape

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Reblog – Album of the Day: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, “Sunergy”

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Couldn’t really pass this release and review…

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Review Reblog – Midori Hirano ~ Minor Planet

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog. Recommend and well worth you click through to the other releases mentioned.

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minor-planetWe’ve always had a weakness for Sonic Pieces’ hand-stitched covers, shown below in an image borrowed from Sounds of a Tired City.  Minor Planet contains an circle on the cloth cover to represent its title, but we’re simply going to call this “the new red one.”

The iconoclastic Midori Hirano cheerfully changes her sound from album to album.  klo:yuri was an electronic album with stringed guests; the lovely Time Unbox, a collaboration with Ytamo released earlier this year, was an ambient/modern composition blend, wrapped in origami paper, containing occasional vocals.  Minor Planet travels into space, imagining galaxies and stars.  Electronics remain present, but are present more for adornment than tempo.  The one constant is Hirano’s piano, present on each album as a connective thread, or in this case like the tether between spaceship and astronaut.

sonic-pieces-collectionMore than anything, Minor Planet is an album of texture…

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Reblog – Spools Out Radio -My Female Tape Artists Twitterstorm (The Good Kind)

 

Over in Twitterland there’s been a conversation about the perceived lack of women artists on Tape releases from all genres. This developed into a good healthy discussion and suggestions, which resulted in this article.
Check out the links and discover some great new artists and Tape distributors too.
Many thanks to Spools Out for posting the question in the first place. The resulting answers have been positive : )

 

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(featured image – Daphne Oram performing live back in the day)

So dear listeners, as I was perusing my incoming cassette tapes pile, I noticed I hadn’t a single plastic cassette that hadn’t been made by a chap/dude/bro. It’s not the ideal situation to have to do so, but I took to twitter to see if the social media hive mind could quickly solve my tape-based inequality problems, and tweeted the below:

I was far from disappointed by the resultant wave of recommendations, so thought I’d quickly chuck a load of the recommended artists and released I received into this very blog post…

Richard Hopkins of Feral Tapes jumped right in to tell me:

https://twitter.com/feraltapes/status/776340122119839744

Here’s some music from the Maurice’s…

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Reblog / Web Focus – The Hum Blog

via joan la barbara’s voice is the original instrument reissued by arc light editions — The Hum Blog

 

Posted this before I think, but you can’t have too much of a good thing. Also recommend browsing The Hum Blog, there are loads of really interesting articles covering many aspects of Electronic, Classical, Jazz and World music and is one of the places that I begin to read, learn loads and lose the time….

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Review Reblog -Izabela Dłużyk ~ Soundscapes of summer

As you all know I have a great love for the synthesized sound and electronics but NOTHING compares to the sonic beauty of the real world and to more than prove the point, this release is exquisite.
Even without her personal backstory, this is a field recording album that is surely the top of my list and is a beautiful record of a day in Summer that we can all appreciate.

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Soundscapes of summerThis is perhaps the sweetest story we’ve heard all summer, and it arrives as the season is starting to slip away.  It’s the story of a young woman born blind who falls in love with the sounds around her, begins to record them, and pursues her childhood dream.

Under these conditions, Izabela Dłużyk‘s physical challenge becomes her gift.  She has an extraordinary ear for unique and startling sounds, which makes her an excellent field recordist.  Her writing also shows great sensitivity, and provides readers with an entry point as she describes “the mystery of fleeting moments, of sadness and hope brought by changing seasons”.  The sounds on this album were recorded this summer in Polish forests, but as the flocks prepare to migrate, the sonic field has already begun to change.  Given the date of release, it’s impossible to avoid comparisons to the human experience, as we trade the soundtrack…

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Review Reblog – Marlo Eggplant – Internal External

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artist: Marlo Eggplant
title: Internal External
keywords: electronica ambient experimental experimental noise Olympia

Internal External by Marlo Eggplant is an album that clearly hangs on the experimental noise side of the sound spectrum. She seems to open up her inner workings and exposes the abstract sounds of feelings in ways that feel like we are actually behind these thoughts; a backstage of emotional content, one that exposes all her wires and yet are for any foreigner hard to define.

Basic Trust vs. Mistrust’ for example is moving material, a bit like we are on an train ride to the inner depths of the artist her mind, going in deep into the dark abyss of inner workings who are responsible for her outer workings. The sound is sliding through, creating a non grab-able content that could be seen as a tunnel vision of abstract ambient -noise. Over this rails the sound…

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Review Reblog – Bethan Kellough ~ Aven

“Job may have rued the futility of chasing the wind, but at least in one sense, this sound artist has managed to capture it. (Richard Allen)”
Exactly.

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Tone54_frontAven refers to that which is hidden, yet still is heard: underground shafts through which air reaches the surface.  Fascinated by Iceland’s natural geothermal activity, Bethan Kellough recorded the subterranean rumbles and upper-level hisses, and augmented them with wind recordings made in Iceland and South Africa.  Only the very trained ear will be able to distinguish the difference between South African wind and Icelandic wind (Savannah bush, strands of straw), but neither identification nor deception is her intention.  This soundscape is inspired by the very nature of sound.

While field recordings are the lead story, the artist also plays violin.  Her gentle strings allow her to shape the soundscape into a personal reflection.  What do you hear in these sounds? she asks without words.  What drama can be heard in rising rumbles and twists of wind?  To escape through a shaft from an underground cave is to act out a myth…

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