Taken from “Fun House”, out Oct 22nd 2021 via Saddle Creek. Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), is back with their new album Fun House – the most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not…
DAMON & NAOMI A Sky Record (20|20|20, 2021)* La trentennale storia di Damon Krukowski e Naomi Yang si arricchisce di un nuovo tassello. Primo album vero e proprio dai tempi di “Fortune” (2015), “A Sky Record” permette di ritrovare l’incantata magia del duo in dieci nuove tracce che oltre agli abituali intrecci vocali e alle…
FRÉDÉRIC D. OBERLAND Même Soleil (IIKKI, 2021) Un itinerario attraverso luoghi abbandonati, guidato dalla sinestesia tra suoni e immagini: “Même Soleil” combina le fotografie di Gaël Bonnefon e le ardite divagazioni musicali di Frédéric D. Oberland (Oiseaux-Tempête, FOUDRE!, et al.). Abituato a spaziare tra densità rumorosa e ritualismo etnico, il poliedrico artista francese traccia un…
[streaming] Corinne Sharlet – They Were Mine
Taken from “A Lovely Future”, out September 21st 2021. Chiaroscuro is an Italian artistic term used to describe the dramatic interplay between light and dark. Most frequently used in the world of painting or film noir, chiaroscuro is also a fitting way to describe Corinne Sharlet’s debut album, A Lovely Future. Corinne’s songs vacillate between…
[video of the week] Josienne Clarke – A Letter On A Page
‘A Letter On A Page’ by Josienne Clarke is from her album ‘A Small Unknowable Thing’, released on Corduroy Punk Records on 13th August 2021. Says Josienne of the song: “I wasn’t sure if I’d ever play music again when I wrote this, I was so unhappy with my current situation, I needed to take…
JAKOB LINDHAGEN & DAG ROSENQVIST Stadsbilder (Time Released Sound, 2021)* L’esperienza di produttore e compositore di Jakob Lindhagen e l’attitudine sperimentale alla collaborazione di Dag Rosenqvist si incontrano nelle dieci cartoline sonore di “Stadsbilder”. Come da titolo, si tratta di altrettanti “paesaggi urbani”, incorniciati da una stratificata congerie di suoni elettro-acustici, che alternano passaggi di…
ANDREW WASYLYK Balgay Hill: Morning In Magnolia (Clay Pipe Music, 2021) Dalla contemplazione di un presente sospeso a un viaggio immaginifico nello spazio e nel tempo: il nuovo lavoro di Andrew Wasylyk ha tratto spunto da un antico parco di Dundee dove il musicista scozzese ha trascorso le solitarie mattine primaverili dello scorso anno. Da…
[streaming] Myriam Gendron – Au cœur de ma délire
Adapted from traditional, created during a musical residency at the Old Mill in Le Bic, Québec, in August 2016, using sound samples from Daniel Saint-Pierre’s boat repair workshop. This song was the sparkle for what became the album “Ma délire – Songs of love, lost & found”, created & recorded between October 2020 and January…
[video of the week] DG Solaris & Jeremy Tuplin – Ocean/Are You Weird Enough?
Daniel Green (DG Solaris) about the track: “Back in the innocent summer of 2019, Jeremy Tuplin appeared to me in an hallucinogenic dream, floating high above a raging sea. I emailed him the next day to share this vision, and the man took it in his stride. We soon decided to write some songs together…
JASON VAN WYK Threads (n5md, 2021)* Al quarto disco, il compositore sudafricano Jason Van Wyk lascia riaffiorare in maniera più evidente rispetto ai predecessori tratti della propria giovanile passione per l’elettronica e la trance. A quattro anni di distanza dall’ultimo “Opacity”, la componente acustica di pianoforte e terzetto d’archi non riveste più un ruolo centrale…
SIAVASH AMINI A Trail Of Laughters (Room40, 2021) Lontani sono i tempi dei luminosi riverberi chitarristici di “What Wind Whispered To The Trees” (2014) e della liquida declinazione drone-gaze di Siavash Amini. In continuità con i suoi lavori recenti, il presente dell’artista iraniano ne testimonia l’inquietudine individuale, acuita dall’isolamento e dalla compressione delle libertà contemporanea…
[streaming] Mimsy – Ginster
“Ormeology” by Mimsy, previously known as Wechsel Garland and Wunder, is an album that whirrs and flickers, seeking to mediate between the tangible world and the intangible by blurring the boundaries between words and sounds and space. It is an archipelago that is in many ways connected to what surrounds it, while at the same…
[video of the week] Macie Stewart – Finally
From the forthcoming debut album by by Chicago-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, “Mouth Full of Glass” out September 24th on Orindal Records. Video directed and Edited by Lia Kohl. Written and recorded while finding solace and strength in solitude, “Mouth Full of Glass” features eight lushly arranged songs that search for the meaning of self…
TJO Dispatches From The Drift (Orindal, 2021)* Esattamente un anno fa, Tara Jane O’Neil pubblicava “Songs For Peacock”, lavoro sorprendente sotto almeno due punti di vista: innanzitutto si trattava di una raccolta di cover di brani degli anni Ottanta, ampiamente incentrati sull’uso dei synth, inoltre per la prima volta in quasi trent’anni veniva identificato con…
[streaming] Tina Loeffler – Blue Mountains Home
New song by Tina Loeffler, out now digitally via Bandcamp. It’s the wind in the pines and the pale blue of the early blueberries, which nurtures her soul like a gentle breeze on a hot summer day and let her creativity flow. Always inspired by nature, Tina Loeffler loves to create folky tunes in her…
DUSTIN O’HALLORAN Silfur (Deutsche Grammophon, 2021) Un altro “compositore moderno” sbarca su Deutsche Grammophon, sempre più sensibile ad accogliere proposte al di fuori dei classici circuiti accademici. A margine dei suoi prevalenti impegni nelle colonne sonore e in A Winged Victory For The Sullen (con Adam Wiltzie degli Stars Of The Lid), Dustin O’Halloran lo…
[streaming] Jack Name & Aoife Nessa Frances – Watching the Willows Burn
“Watching the Willows Burn” is the outcome of Jack Name and Aoife Nessa Frances’ first collaborative encounter, and a study in secret song and ancient ritual. Introduced by a mutual acquaintance on a hunch that an undiscovered sonic kinship might exist between the musicians, Jack and Aoife fell hard and fast for each other’s respective…
[video of the week] Ducks Ltd. – 18 Cigarettes
“18 Cigarettes” is taken from Ducks Ltd.’s forthcoming album, “Modern Fiction”, out on Carpark Records / Royal Mountain Records on October 1st, 2021. Video directed by Ali Vanderkruyk. Toronto’s Ducks Ltd. (formerly Ducks Unlimited), the bright jangle-pop duo of Tom McGreevy (lead vocal, guitar, bass, keyboards) and Evan Lewis (guitar, bass, drum programming), accomplish the…
GIAMPAOLO DE PIETRO & CRAIG TATTERSALL ‘Saint Autumn’ Cloud | Precipitation (Ur Audio-Visual, 2021)* Poesia e musica; note e ambiente sonoro; latenza e impermanenza. Concetti e dimensioni espressive tra loro diverse, a volte distanti eppure perfettamente complementari si incontrano nella collaborazione a distanza del musicista e poeta siciliano Giampaolo De Pietro con il navigato musicista…
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