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Album of the Day: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates, “Remain Calm”
Like the weather,it’s changeable with a multitude of layers of light and shade.
Category Archives: Review
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.
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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Review Reblog – Marlo Eggplant: Callosity
Review Reblog – Olivia Louvel – Data Regina
Wonderful multi media experience when you visit the site, beautifully presented
Cat Werk Imprint – CW11 – 8th February 2017
Christopher Nosnibor
The inspiration for Olivia Louvel’s latest album (fantastically presented, like its predecessor, in a DVD size digipak) casts an arc way back into history. Louvel, it transpires, was fascinated by the lives of Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I – two queens who existed simultaneously on the same island, during the 16th Century – a period dominated by men. Two queens who, powerful and celebrated in their own lifetimes as well as posthumously, would never meet. And so, on Data Regina, Olivia Louvel sets herself the challenge of addressing their simultaneous yet entirely separate, disparate narratives of these two bitter rivals, and presenting distinct voices as she charts their adversarial relationship.
The twenty years during which the two queens reigned simultaneously were fraught, tempestuous ones, punctuated by battles on the Anglo-Scottish borders, disputes and reconciliations, and ultimately…
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Review Reblog – Cat Hope – Yume
Today’s Discovery…courtesy to YIKIS
Artist: Cat Hope
Title: Yume
Keywords: australia electronicexperimental silkscreen art cat hope diy record label free jazz noise Moscow
Label: Post-Materialization Music
Sometimes it’s good to have a dictionary at hand as even though it’s fun to rely on thinking that you know it all, sometimes words that you think you know turn out to be something you didn’t have no clue about. For example the word ‘Cat Hope’… I was like you, automatically thinking that it was the way how to describe the hope of a cat, or the hope that the presence of a cat brings. I mean look at those hospitals or elderly houses in which they have cats to stroke and cuddle with and how much love and hope it brings to the elderly and other patients… yes, Cat Hope like this is a amazing thing until you find out that Cat Hope actually means…
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Review Reblog -Helen White: Solar Wind Chime
Really fascinating how artists combine scientific theory or research and then sonically express the data, so that what I’m listening to definitely is “making an intangible, invisible phenomenon audible”.
Review Reblog – on ashley bellouin’s ballads
Minimalism doesn’t mean that there’s nothing going on sonically and here is proof.
Review Reblog -Kate Carr ~ endings
After a difficult year for many – 2016, Kate Carr, in both sound and context of this release, does demonstrate that there is hope in creativity.
Kate Carr is a global sound student. Her journeys, both physical and metaphorical, have opened her ears to the possibilities inherent in space-based sound: the ability to pinpoint a sound to a specific location, as well as the threads that connect related sounds found in different locations. endings is a tribute to places and things left behind: countries, friends, years. On this album, she collects various pieces from her travels, revisiting and re-contextualizing her experiences.
When listening, one track seems unlike the others; but watch the video (below) and everything makes sense. “A long meditation on airports (no fire/fire)” frames the blur of travel: rain-soaked windows, yearnings, arrival and departure charts. And over it all, an announcer who seems at first comforting but eventually clueless: “there is no fire in the building”, then “please leave the building immediately.” The dichotomy of “fire/no fire” summarizes our thoughts of travel as dangerous/alluring.
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Review Reblog – Aloesia – Singles
Another ICYMI 2016, so glad this review came along : )
Artist: Aloesia
Title: Singles
Keywords: experimental abstract ambient avant-gardeelectronic leftfield Toronto
Reviewer: Willem van O.
The first moment that my ears dipped into this release it got nicely greeted by the first (what a coincidence!) track. It was sounding nice and wet, sparkly and relaxed. Like a tropical cocktail with a fancy strawberry sliced on the top of the cocktail glass. You know, when you hear it you feel all fruity and yet somehow the fruit has a alcoholic flavor.
The next track asks ‘What was that?’ If I could trust my ears I think it was some kind of table tennis played between intelligent mechanic robotic machines. Of course I can’t be certain, but I think that was what it was…. I mean I believe that was what was recorded and showcased in that track… although it could also be rhythmic music. Shouldn’t be the music maker know better…
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Review Reblog – Svetlana Maraš & Bodies Under The Waterfall: Angry Ambient Artists Volume 2
This month is ICYMI 2016.
Since, last year seemed to be an unending trail of misery and loss, I decided to look back at some of the good things that were released and created. Yes, believe it or not there was some light and I’m revisiting and reblogging as much as possible, on all platforms.
I have posted about this release but ICYMI, here’s another review about Angry Ambient Artists Vol 2. Let’s hope there’s more.
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