Well it looks like somebody got a vocoder — and I ain’t talkin’ ‘bout Kanye West. It’s Madalyn Merkey from Chicago, and she’s using it to emit some pretty bedazzling sounds. By simply rambling off improvisational cycles of vocal rhythm into her her fuzzed-out vocoder, Merkey constructs music which feels refreshingly aimless and free yet thoughtful and beautiful.
Available now through New Images Ltd., Merkey’s LP is called Scent. Smell it now.
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• Madalyn Merkey: http://soundcloud.com/cyndi
• New Images Ltd.: http://newimagesltd.tumblr.com