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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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Todays Discovery – Binary Breath by Heejin Jang

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This is the danger for me or a good thing for you, that one link leads to another. Looking at the discography from Heavy Mess, a discrete cassette label. currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah and where you can find Teasips’ album from an earlier post, I came across this intriguing release from Heejin Jang.

“Crafting field recordings and digital noise into a sonic sculpture that is as hypnotic as it is chaotic. A perfect dose of ambience and frenzy.

A statement from the artist:

“The four ambient pieces that comprise “Binary Breath” are about the transpositions that had taken over my mind and body, generating a code in cipher.”

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Todays Discovery/ Review Reblog -Marielle V Jakobsons ~ Glass Canyon

Here’s my Todays Discovery – the artist Marielle V Jakobsons and I’m not going to add anything to this except listen…

 

…and read..

 

 

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Quick – how many solo synth and violin artists can you name?  If you came up with more than three, we salute you.  We last encountered Marielle V Jakobsons as the “J” in EJS, whose album was included in our winter recommendations; but here she presents a new sound for a new season.  Glass Canyon is even different from her last solo outing, Ore (recorded as Darwinsbitch), in that her abstractions have grown more accessible.  This is not to say that these tracks are friendly, how-do-you-do handshakers, but that the album as a whole declares, “Your efforts to understand me will be rewarded within a reasonable span.”

The mood of these six pieces is reflective without being mournful; they betray a deep concentration, an attention to craft.  Synth and violin are not natural partners, but Jakobsons fits them together like soulmates on an internet dating site.  “From…

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Vectors of Vektroid and Vaporwave

If you are interested in finding out more about Ramona Andra Xavier aka Vektroid this is a great article.

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Review Reblog -Album of the Day: Siddiq & Vektroid, “Midnight Run” — Bandcamp Daily

On the surface, rap and vaporwave make strange bedfellows. Dig deeper, though, and similarities start to emerge: both genres are concerned with image and illusion—often obscuring the uglier side of life behind a facade of materialism. That’s one of the primary concerns of the groundbreaking Midnight Run, the long-awaited collaboration between vaporwave-pioneer Vektroid and Houston […]

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Review Reblog – quoll noses: chrissie caulfield on furchick

Great to read one artists’ thoughts on another and the last paragraph sums up my feelings about Furchick – fun and pleasure…”half-familiar mangled into a wonderful world that is all her own, a surrealist painting in sound.”

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Furchick – Trouble with a capital T (download, dog park records)

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Sorry for not having written anything for a while, lately I’ve been generally under-enthused by the experimental scene for all sorts of reasons. I have been searching for new music of course, but what I found was either too ‘mainstream’ for this blog or I didn’t really enjoy enough to write about it.

Then the opening track of Furchick’s album Trouble with a Capital T leapt out at me almost instantly as something I could engage with and that I think will interest you, our dear readers.

That opening track, ‘March of the feathered friends’, is built on the rhythms of some piece of machinery I’m not even going to guess the identity of. It’s alternately insistent and broken up and surrounded by drones that waver in and out. There is clanking and rattling aplenty here and I…

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Review Reblog – Elisa Luu – Enchanting Gaze — Yeah I Know It Sucks

artist: Elisa Luu title: Enchanting Gaze keywords: pop acoustic electronica experimental folk Italy label: http://labelnetlabel.com/ \ Elisa Luu’s Enchanting Gaze is an album that is of the pretty kind, something that lightens up and gives that special sparkle of a having a wonderful day. Not unlike other releases, this one has tracks inside. Let me […]

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So glad this has been picked up for review as it is a release of beautiful folktronica with a twist.

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Weekly Theme – Latin American Electronic and Electroacoustic

There is a rich history of Electronic and Electroacoustic music in South American and Latin American countries with some of the greatest pioneers  including Jacqueline Nova and Beatriz Ferreyra. This rich culture of experimentalism has been built upon by modern artists. Below are two playlists that are the starting points to discovering more.

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Review Reblog – Daina Dieva – KAS

Daina Dieva is known for her participation in Lithuania’s culture of performance art and in drone ambient music. Though late last year I had the opportunity to review her collaboration with Skeldos, Aviliai, once I realized that there was another album by her available—one in which there was no information available, making it more interesting, […]

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Just stumbled across this review of Daina Dievas’ new release KAS and was instantly taken by the ethereal, otherworldly but somehow rooted to the earth sound but Heathen Harvest describe this release better than me.

This is my Todays Discovery and I will be returning to this artist in the near future, here.

 

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Reblog – PREMIERE: Orbital Planes & Passenger Trains (“87 Billion Suns” by Strië) — Stationary Travels

If there is one thing the eleven year history of Serein tells us, it is that the Welsh label does not put out a release unless it is something special – just consider records like Pine by Olan Mill, Retold by Nest or Charcoal by Brambles. That makes their first new material published this year a tantalizing […]

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