ARTICLE REBLOG – SP 010: Christina Vantzou

This is everything you ever wanted to know about Christina Vantzou and then some. Recommended long read.

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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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REVIEW REBLOG – Delphine Dora: L’au-delà

A couple of great reviews this afternoon beginning with this…

REVIEW REBLOG – Maja S. K. Ratkje – Crepuscular Hour

REVIEW REBLOG – Various Artists – Pod Tune [Pod Labs]

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 –

NEWS – Exclusive Première: Liz Helman’s “Labyrinthian”

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.…

Source: Exclusive Première: Liz Helman’s “Labyrinthian”

International Womens Day 2016

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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 –



An Album a Day #2

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 –

JOANNA BROUK

Proving melodic instrumental electronic music is not ear candy –


ELIZABETH VELDON

Experimental avant garde electronic noise. What a great combination


WRTCH

Dark experimental voice noise…


KAREN GWYER

Mesmeric wormhole sucks you in…


APRIL LARSON

Like drifting on the Marie Celeste, in a good way…

Todays Discovery – Mayuko Hino

Such ferocity  and power –

The Queen of Noise: Mayuko Hino Returns

ARTICLE REBLOG – yoko ono’s first musical work – a grapefruit in the world of park (1961) – original hand typed script

Always interested to read different slants on artists and their work and this is a good example…thoughtful piece.

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REBLOG – Listen: Pieces of Juno – ‘Valentine’

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Earlier in the week, when covering one of the latest tracks from Dream Wife, we apologised for missing the boat a little when it comes to Valentine’s Day-related musical material. Well, we have to apologise a second time (shame on us). Though to be fair, the latest track by Pieces of Junoisn’t exactly, directly, totally related to Valentine’s Day, it just happens to have a bit of a wordy connection to it.

But enough of our apologetic guff. We’re here to talk about the latest track from the Norwegian’s new instrumental EP Frisson, which comes out later this month on all-female collective KOSO. Kine Sandbaek Jensen has moved in all kinds of directions with her electronic project but from the sounds of ‘Valentine’ she’s continuing to experiment on this new collection. Starting out as a slow burner with a classical guitar lick, it soon gets taken over by some…

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Celebrating the eclecticism of Electronic Artists who identify as female