Really recommend this release and so glad I can reblog this review courtesy of Stationary Travels.
REBLOG – Meet Female Frequency
Courtesy to SoundGirls.org for this spotlight on Female Frequency.
ETHEREAL SOUNDSCAPES COMPILATION PLANNED
Here’s an opportunity some artists may be interested in : )
Demerera Records plan to put out a compilation in 2016 focused on ethereal, otherworldly soundscapes. So if you have tracks that are maybe harmonically modal and unconventional or which utilise strong evocative sounds in a surreal or dreamlike way, please submit them using one of the following methods:
- create a dropbox folder and add demerararecords@yahoo.co.uk
- put the track(s) on a Soundcloud page & email details to us
- attach file(s) to a WeTransfer file with a covering message
Please do not use any other method to submit tracks. Tracks selected will be used on an informal license basis whereby the composer/artist allows Demerara Records to use the track(s) on the album but the composer/artist retains full ownership of both the track and recording and can use it/them again for separate release in the future.
TODAYS DISCOVERY – BIRDS OF PASSAGE
REVIEW REBLOG – Birds of Passage & I’ve Lost ~ I Was All You Are
What a Todays Discovery – Maybe it’s the way I’m feeling this afternoon but the electroacoustic ambience of Alicia Merz aka Birds of Passage, is quite a find….and yes I agree with ACL, it is like watching a film in extreme slow motion, a beautiful film at that.
Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the review.
The cover of I Was All You Are says it all: blinding sunshine, dried weeds, a woman walking alone. Alicia Merz (Birds of Passage) seems to have been raised in haziness, forever existing just a bit out of focus. When she sings of “sunny garden places”, it’s easy to picture her lying in a meadow, catching the clouds between her fingertips. On I Was All You Are, she also sings of water; the elements are beginning to coalesce.
I’ve Lost is a downbeat name for a recording artist, bearing poetic associations: it’s not you I’ve lost, but the world. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. The ambient settings of I’ve Lost are slow beyond slow; there’s no way to measure them, but 4 b.p.m. seems a reasonable estimate. Listening is like watching a film in slow motion, then filming it and watching that film in…
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REBLOG – Delphine Dora and Sophie Cooper “Distance Future” (Was Ist Das? – 2015)
SOUNDCLOUD SPOTLIGHT – ANGELICA CASTELLO
I previously reblogged a review of Angelica Castellos’ Sonic Blue courtesy of A Closer Listen. I came across the review again and this lead me to her Soundcloud page.
So here is todays Spotlight –
PODCAST / ARTICLE REBLOG – Sounding Out! Podcast #46: Ruptures in the Soundscape of Disneyland
Cynthia Wang – Her work is framed in critical cultural perspectives. In the past she has done research on how Asian American musicians use digital media to build community and collaborate, and how crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide new avenues of creative production and distribution for independent artists.
Check out the other podcasts via the SO! site – interesting series on sound, soundwalks and field recording with an academic but accessible remit.
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In this podcast, Cynthia Wang shares examples taken from a soundwalk she performed at Disneyland. Disneyland has been an idealized space for the middle-class white American experience, and the aural signals and music used throughout the park encourage visitors to become cultural tourists and to share in this mindset. Here Cynthia considers the moments of rupture that disturb Disney’s controlled soundscape. Join us as we listen for a pathway out of the hyper-consumerist labyrinth of Disney. And, if you would like to learn more about this soundwalk, visit it’s website here.
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Cynthia Wang is currently a PhD candidate at the Annenberg School of Communication at USC, a USC Endowed Fellow, and a USC Diploma in Innovation grant recipient (for an LGBTQ stories…
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Todays Discovery / SoundCloud Spotlight – LYNDSIE ALGUIRE
REVIEW REBLOG – Lyndsie Aguire – Clair Obscur
This is my Todays Discovery c/o and thanks to Yeah I Know it Sucks.
Artist: Lyndsie Aguire
title: Clair Obscur
keywords: ambient, electronic, field recordings, melodic, piano
label: Time Relesed Soundhttp://timereleasedsound.com/
reviewer: Willem van O.
I was thinking of you, dear visitor of YIKIS. I thought about how much you would like to check out music that you would like. I guess it’s a matter of tastes, so we can’t please everyone; but the release done by Lyndsie Alguire is something that you are free to check out so you will be able to see if the music fits you and your delicate tastes. Checking the album notes makes me aware that Lyndsie Alguire is from Canada and that she is specialized in composing piano works and soundscapes, but this release on its own is rather different to my ears.
It first starts with Lyndsie Alguire’s ‘I was dreaming of you’ which gives way to a dreamy construction that for some reason makes…
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