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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.

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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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Review Reblog – Sound Impression: Lunar by Madeleine Cocolas [Self Center Records]

A feast for the ears…

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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

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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.

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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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Friday Focus – Many, Many Women

https://manymanywomen.com/
Many Many Women – https://manymanywomen.com/

 

Many Many Women is an Index of over a thousand artists, composers, improvisors and sonic artists who identify as women  –

The main focus of this index is on women making various kinds of experimental/avant garde music. Some of these artists may also work within more mainstream forms, but they are included here because of their other work that is more challenging.

Genres covered include Classical, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Improvised / Jazz, Intermedia, Noise / Other and Songmakers.

 

 

 

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Today’s Discovery – Priscilla McLean

Electronic Music Pioneer

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Review Reblog – on ashley bellouin’s ballads

Minimalism doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on sonically and here is proof.

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Todays Discovery – Review Reblog – Angelina Yershova – Piano’s Abyss

Before Synths there was the Piano but this beautiful release is an exploration of all the dynamics and sound a piano can make using the technology to enhance and create a wonderful palette of sound….Recommended.

 

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Artist: Angelina Yershova
Title: Piano’s Abyss
Keywords: electronic dark ambient drone drone ambientelectronic experimental modern classic piano piano drone piano drone music Rome
Label: Twin Paradox Records

Angelina Yeshova’s Piano’s Abyss covers the direct feeling of eternal bliss generated by piano-drone. It starts of super smooth with soft white noise-ambient that will calm any rushed person out and make them all feel relaxed and at ease. For a release named Piano’s Abyss the clear use of a piano is nicely put away to purely form the basic ambience, once this is setup the piano comes out, playing wondrous sparkling notes on top of the massive tranquilizer of a work.

‘Suspense’ is up next, which makes the head fall even deeper into the piano abyss. Here the warm noises are more clearly generated by the artist experimenting with piano and special effects. When the piano comes in with a more natural…

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Reblog -Visual noise 20: Leyohmi by Carolina Eyck & the American Contemporary Music Ensemble

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This time a video in this series with more conventional visuals than usual: “Leyohmi“by  German theremin player Carolina Eyck and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.

I have added it because I like the beautiful nature scenes of the video, the thin theremin sounds of Carolina Eyck and the general atmosphere of the video. They seem to fit a Sunday morning:

Carolina Eyck is a contemporary master of the theremin, together with Dorit Chrysler and Lydia Kavina. I do have a Moog theremin(i) myself, but it is just one of the many synthesizers in my studio. So I am not as proficient in playing it as those theremin maestros, but know how hard it is to play the thing.  If you like the sounds of this video, I advise you to check them out on YouTube or elsewhere on the web:

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ASTMA and JELENA GLAZOVA – Medea’s Disco

This month is ICYMI 2016 for Feminatronic on all platforms and so I am pleased to see this release has been reviewed as it gives me an excuse to reblog it again, thanks to YIKIS : )

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Artists: ASTMA and JELENA GLAZOVA
Title: Medea’s Disco
Keywords: experimental germany latvia disco droneelectronica experimental electronic experimental rockfree improvisation live electronics noise Russia

If you want to jump in and get hooked on electronic experimental music with pure rhythmic qualities that will make your muscles twist in various positions of pure appreciation; Medea Disco is for you! I came across it thanks to Feminatronic and since then ever so addicted to these fine modern tracks. The sounds and pleasant noises used are strange, weird even, a kind of shimmering future music that knows how to injects itself into your system in order to get you moving and grooving.

The sound textures are mechanic but super smooth, filled with artifacts that makes these sessions interesting. It’s music for cool rulers, science fiction robot dancing while still keeping the humanity by making it finger snappingly friendly.

Description wise it let us know…

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