Archive for January, 2015
Review: D’Incise – O esplendor natural das coisas e inferno
A conceptual exercise in abstraction, shunning musical habit in favour of bass frequency imposition and creased chronology.
Review: Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong – Extensions
Saturation, blemish and displacement, in this A/V work inspired by Canadian media scholar Marshall McLuhan.
Review: Jean D.L. – Early Nights
An experimental guitar player meddles with his own size and opacity.
Review: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard – SOUND X SOUND-MUSIC FOR 8 RECORDERS
Sonic origins dissolve into distraction and commotion, in the debut edition of Løkkegaard’s study of instrument multiplication.
Review: Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt + Daniel Kaufman – Split
Two artists working in electricity, feedback and anxious energy conflict.
Interview: Six Organs Of Admittance
Ben Chasny leads ATTN down the Hexadic System rabbit hole, in which chance operation, combinatorial process, hexafields and parlour games swirl into a surreally beautiful music.
Review: Pepa Päivinen + Good Romans – Ghost Of A Dog
Improvisation for woodwind/drums/guitars/electronics, loaded with passive aggression and sharp dress sense.
Review: Black Thread – Autumn Flowers
Mortality draining out of magnetic tape.
Review: Datura Dilema – Spirals
Four extracts of a polymetric techno eternity.
Review: Follow The Sun – Gaze
A simple and romantic origami of guitar and piano; cinema score in a snowglobe.