There has been a lot of publicity for the new Haiku Salut album Etch and Etch Deep but here is their debut as Todays Discovery, spurred on by the Yeah I Know it Sucks interview.
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REBLOG – interview with Haiku Salut
As expected, a different sort of interview from Yeah I Know it Sucks but that’s no bad thing. I’m just in time for a couple of gig plugs too : ))
Whilst I adore music in general, I very rarely fall head over heels for a band. So far my journalistic adventures have introduced you to two such acts, Twink and The Caring Babies. The advantage for these two acts is that they live across a big ocean, so can escape my overly earnest fandom. No such luck for Haiku Salut. From the moment I picked up their “How We Got Along After the Yarn Bomb” EP I have been drawn into their magical, beautiful musical world, a journey which continued with their gorgeous debut album “Tricolore”. Listening to their music truly is that, a journey, through folk, electronica alongside glitches and chiptune influences, it’s music to which you can dream and escape the real world. The latest album “Etch and Etch Deep” continues where the other releases left off, whilst sounding incredibly confident and complete.
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ARTICLE REBLOG – Reflections on music technology & gender
This is how it should work.
Set up a tiny website about an important issue and eventually one or two people like what you are doing and follow you. I visit their blogs and discover sites , articles and organisations of interest to me (and hopefully others). New connections and getting the voices heard to a wider audience. Here is my Discovery Today – Attack / Decay website. Will be posting more in the future : ))
An early morning cup of tea with a couple of my female co-workers – one of whom is a trained sound engineer – ended up turning into a deep and lengthy discussion about the gender politics of the music industry; specifically why women tend to be under-represented in the world of electronic music production and technology. It’s a question I’ve been reflecting on lately, (in the gaps between writing posts), noticing the patterns within my own writing, and the dominance of men in many of the events I write about.
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The proliferation of relatively cheap music production software, as well as the ease of distributing music through online platforms, should represent a democratisation of music-making. The days of requiring large amounts of expensive analogue equipment and access to studios to produce an album are long gone. With even the most rudimentary studio set up, it is now possible…
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REVIEW REBLOG – p0stm0rtem – NIPPOP
Finally posted this review : D
Many thanks to Yeah I Know it Sucks.
Artist: p0stm0rtem
title: NIPPOP
keywords: experimental,japan,abstract,ambient,avantgarde,pop, electronic,improvised, korea,leftfield, Toronto
reviewer: Willem van O.
Music can be anything, and everything. Sometimes it might be even so much everything and anything that it turns into a complete thing of its own. This is a way to describe the music captured on this release here by p0stm0rtem. You probably had heard of her as some of the reviewers out here tipped this artist as the potential winner of artist of the year. but as they are all a biased bunch, I wanted to check it out with my own honest ears. hope you will stay with me and appreciate this rare effort.
my notes on the first track are barely a couple of scribbles, but yet enough to knit a few sentences from. the abstract electronic experimental music has something minimal to it, but more importantly it gave me (according to my note…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Lisa Busby ~ Fingers in the Gloss
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review reblog.
If you sleep in an oyster long enough, you become a pearl. And this is exactly what happened to Lisa Busby, who is “not the same woman.” But fear not! Shards of the old Lisa remain. She’s still calcium carbonate under all that shimmer. We never forget our roots.
Long-time readers already know the reference. Sleeps in Oysters was one of our favorite musical duos of the last decade. Don’t you worry, John fans ~ he’s swimming languorously in The Lumen Lake, while Lisa’s been floating on the good ship Rutger Hauser. She is not an excessive girl. This is how we know they still get along. Now that summer’s over, Lisa’s been hanging out in bakeries and mortuaries, recording beautifully non-linear music. No A-A-B-A here. More like X-Z-Q-Q. Everybody knows those are the coolest letters.
By virtue of her music, Lisa scores a non-linear review. Follow…
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NEWS – Dreamtime Collection Releases
I’ve put together an album, rereleasing some of the tracks I love that I feel are perfect for an album that helps put you to sleep. I’m calling it the Dreamtime Collection. On it you’ll find tracks like Asleep Next to You, Entering the Shell and Falling. While it could be argued that most of my music could put you to sleep, these tracks have been put together with that purpose in mind. The plan is to have several editions of the Dreamtime Collection, volumes, that include new material. This is the new project. Dreamtime Collection. We’ll see how many volumes we come up with. Enjoy!
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REVIEW REBLOG – Agnès Pe – Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco
Courtesy to Yeah I Know it Sucks for this review.
artist: Agnès Pe
title: Método para Enya: el fluir del Orinoco
keywords: enlightment, experimental, electronic, Enya, devotional, blinding, light, music, video, experimental
Agnès Pe is next to someone with experimental musical skills, an creative individual with a special gift. She has a special magical power that could potentially blind you, me and others. This she can do by pointing her hands in a way that a blinding ray of light could shoot out like bright laser beams.
I know it sounds ridiculous and I totally agree that you cannot make such a thing up… And that’s why it’s the truth, and nothing but the truth. Of course there is evidence, but this evidence comes with a great risk. In fact watching the evidence might be so damaging to your eyes, that it might be the last thing you will ever see. Is it worth the risk of losing your eye…
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REVIEW REBLOG – Kate Carr ~ I had myself a nuclear spring
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog of the Review.
No stranger to creative formatting, sound artist Kate Carr has just released her latest work on a USB flash drive, housed in an aluminum tin. While it may suggest smuggled secrets from Spectre, these recorded sounds are meant to be shared.
On the surface, the album is about the Seine, but in this case, the river is viewed from an unusual angle. As Carr puts it, the landscape is “almost apocalyptic.” She continues, “These muddy marshes filled with buzzing electrical towers, corroded machinery, shrieking birds and canals feeding a nuclear complex were like nothing I had ever seen.” Local electromagnetism made even hydroponic recordings difficult, as heard in the ghostly, feedback-laden “The darkness of riverbeds”.
Carr presents a mixture of field recordings and light musical adornment ~ a guitar line here, a subdued beat there. The sources of the electronics are harder to discern, as they may have been born…
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REBLOG – Caterina Barbieri
Here is an overview of the artist Caterina Barbieri from Ekho :: Women in Sonic Art, which I recommend you visit. Thanks to Ekho, Caterina Barbieri is my Todays Discovery and her music fits in well with the Friday Culture Fix.
“Caterina Barbieri (b.1990, Bologna, Italy) is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music. Mostly interested in modular synthesis, three-dimensional spatialisation and psychoacoustic aural sculpture, her music arises from a meditative approach to primary waveforms, microtonality and the polyrhythm of harmonics, on the boundary between drone, minimalism and techno in multichannel systems.
Her minimalistic focus is rooted in the exploration of the stratigraphic potential of voltage-controlled synthesizers, in terms of polyrhythm and polyphony.
Synthesis, texture-based forms and immersive listening are three fundamental conditions for her to enhance an advanced cognitive and auditory art, not based on extrinsic links but solely built on the experience of the spectrum, able to develop our very limited ability of perceiving the vertical domain of music, involving us in a holistic way.” www.caterinabarbieri.com
Submission to ‘Ekho:: Toward a Repetitive Sounding of Difference’
Undular is an eight-channel piece composed by Caterina Barbieri. All sounds derive from a…
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