Styles: footwork, ambient
Others: Ahnnu, RP Boo, DJ Nate, Taso
Footwork is such an inscrutable genre that you’re hard pressed to find a review that doesn’t open with a lengthy rumination on its identity. That’s understandable; although the music itself often lacks literal narratives or themes as much as any dancefloor utility, the footwork metaverse is ripe for discussion.
More about: cakedog
Styles: nard or valerian, artemisia or angelica, thyme, vanilla, savory, oregano, cinnamon and benzoin, hyssop or coriander, lemon balm, myrrh, ginger, marjoram
Others: Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Young’s Well-Tuned Piano
There’s always a fold, a folding, and, unfolding, a turning inward on itself. There’s always the incense rising in wisps as in wavers, gathering into its ash-spiral ascent the silent vigil of vespers, hysperic murmurations that do not disturb and not even the veil, the vergers of sleep.
More about: Sarah Davachi
The multidisciplinary artist and Shelter Press proprietor talks polyphony, pregnancy, and pizza ahead of new album “The Flower and the Vessel”
I‘m no authority, but from what I’ve gathered, having a baby isn’t easy. That’s why I was quite impressed when I met up with Félicia Atkinson, Bartolomé Sanson, and their child (about half a year old, at the time) at a pizza place in Los Angeles. The exhausted couple had flown out from France, where they live and run Shelter Press together. They had lasted two days at the always-overcrowded, over-noisy, and overwhelming L.A.
More about: Félicia Atkinson, Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier
INCOMING REPORT from the Cyperspatial JUKE BOX: Teklife Records have recently announced their newest — and, it therefore stands to reason, “jukiest” — release: TEKVISION Volume 2 by Chicago’s finest foot(work)-fetishist Traxman.
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serpentwithfeet and Ty Dolla $ign seem like they must have been destined to meet, gravitating celestial bodies of buttery voice drawn close like binary stars breaking binaries together. Brothers in sultriness, inquisition, and poetic mastery, the two singers now find themselves together—both geographically in L.A.
More about: serpentwithfeet, Ty Dolla $ign
Uh. Make some…noise?
Because Japan’s grand Emperor of Noise, Masami Akita (a.k.a. Merzbow) is officially celebrating 40 years of reigning-supreme with a “guest of honour” appearance at Room40’s annual Open Frame Festival at Carriageworks in Sydney (sorry, Aussie friends from the future: it’s already SOLD OUT).
But don’t worry; that’s not all the noise that IS the noise.
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Stockholm-based composer Kali Malone returns with a new album and a new attitude! Well, maybe not a new attitude, as The Sacrificial Code follows previous releases, including Cast of Mind and Organ Dirges 2016-2017, into deeper, darker, and rawer territory with nearly two hours of droning organ works.
More about: Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone
Styles: post-math-punk-jazz-rock-core
Others: Tera Melos, Pere Ubu, Don Caballero
Katamari Damacy is a video game about replenishing the cosmos by rolling a sticky ball — a katamari — all over the planet, gathering objects along the way until the katamari is a hulking mass that can suck up buildings, streets, even lifeform. In effect, if you are caught by the Katamari, you have reached the event horizon unless shaken by a similarly large body; no amount of gravitational force can pull you out. black midi have a similar omnivorous effect, but instead of corporeal objects, it’s bands and particular influences.
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Hey, speaking of containing multitudes…one, I should stop using that quotation, and two, Angel Marcloid — a.k.a. Fire-Toolz — is an excellent example of someone who embraces her multitudes as a defining characteristic in and of itself.
More about: Fire-Toolz
The experimental drummer talks Sensory Percussion technology, electronics, and new album “Giant Beat”
Max Jaffe’s work came to my attention via the strange, polymorphous, plastic, and elastic collective venture that is JOBS. Their 2018 album Log On For The Free Chance To Log On For Free suggested an elaborate, mutable thesis on how a band can sound and function in this goopy pre-post-human world. His latest project, a solo excursion resulting in an album called Giant Beat, is an equally captivating contribution to the burgeoning contingent of solo drummers experimenting with electronics.
More about: Chrome Sparks, Elder Ones, JOBS, Max Jaffe
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