Fatima Al Qadiri’s first full-length, 2014’s Asiatisch, was a promising but flawed début. Its best moments, Szechuan and Shanghai Freeway, were brimming with tension and a barely contained magic and were easily two of the year’s best tracks. However, despite these promising peaks and all its concept Asiatisch didn’t come together as a body of work. Its […]
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Experimental soundscapes that catch the ear of electronic music guru Mary Anne Hobbs? Yes please! Bristol-based Kayla Painterimpressed earlier this year with her first release on Turnstile Records, ‘Revert,’ a slice of ambient electronica. But her latest, ‘efa’ is a much more challenging listen, which is filled with reverberating basslines and handclaps before building up into something relatively extreme.
Kayla said of the track: “It was created with the dream essence in mind, wanting to explore the relationship between two elements, all the while never being sure exactly what is there. The track and video explore the relationship between real and unreal through the narrative of a modern day fairy tale.”
‘efa’ also has a suitably odd little video, which, as you can probably see below, has a goat man in it. Yep, ‘efa’ pretty much has it all covered.
Watch the video for ‘efa’ below.
This is everything you ever wanted to know about Christina Vantzou and then some. Recommended long read.
Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release or a catalog, this series tries to take the emphasis away from the ‘what’ and shine light on the ‘how’ and ‘why.’ You can find the previous nine interviews, as well as additional articles and features, here.
It’s a feeling not a learning/
it’s a knowing and believing
Christina Vantzou released her debut solo record No. 1 on the august Kranky label, just a few months before we launched ACL in early 2012, and we’ve followed her career carefully since. Though we knew her as one-half of the audio-visual duo The Dead Texan (alongside Adam Wiltzie), we were…
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A couple of great reviews this afternoon beginning with this…
Having a Sea Sounds theme on Twitter and Facebook this week concentrating mainly on Field Recordings but slipping some other tracks in too. I have plugged this album before as it is a firm favourite but haven’t posted this review so here it is courtesy of Stationary Travels –
On the next show, Monday night / tuesday morning (14th/15th March) (1-3am BST / 8-10pm EST) we have a special broadcast from Liz Helman, the first play of her new longform drone piece Labyrinthian.…
Eclectic Electronic Soundscapes for International Womens Day 2016
Just skimming the surface of creativity. A starting point.
Artists are –
Beatriz Ferreyra, Doris Norton, Cosi Fanni Tutti, Lucrecia Dalt, AGF / Tujiko Noriko, Pia Palme / Eliane Radigue, Wendy Carlos, Ikue Mori / Maja S.K.Ratkje, Sarah Davachi, Iris Garrelfs, Adina Izarra, Joan La Barbara, Annette Peacock, Lena Platonos, JLin / Holly Herndon, Pharmakon / SEEMING, Elysia Crampton, Marie Davidson, People Like Us, voicesoundtext.
Also here are a couple of playlists that you may enjoy –
This is not totally different for me but last month I accepted the challenge, like many others, to listen to and write short notes on an album a day during February 2016. I thought I would post up these here as part of my Todays Discovery theme.
Not in any order of preference here are the next 5 –
Proving melodic instrumental electronic music is not ear candy –
Experimental avant garde electronic noise. What a great combination
Dark experimental voice noise…
Mesmeric wormhole sucks you in…
Like drifting on the Marie Celeste, in a good way…
Such ferocity and power –
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