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There must be a third round coming. These things come in threes, don’t they, like celebrity deaths and blockbuster movie franchises? The “thing” in this case is the mass popularity of — the sudden mass consciousness of — what, generally speaking, is a matter of sonic composition relegated deep in left field, in the outer [...]
Saiph‘s Diffusion limns that space where electronic drone and classical orchestration meet. There is no doubt, in “Einsames Element” (MP3), that those are, indeed, tremulous strings amid the woodsy percussion, even if the strings are playing a role more likely to be handed to a synthesizer these days. And even on repeat listen, the knowledge [...]
All it requires is a bit of repetition and a little echo to take a diva — all that throaty virtuosity, all that institutional training, all that inherited performance technique — and turn her into one element among many. The Russian musician Clapan (né Denis Korsunski) accomplishes just that early along in an hour-long live [...]
Little piece I did for the Colorado Springs Independent (csindy.com) on “the fragmented world of electronic dance subgenres.” The article coincides with the Love Festival happening there this coming Saturday, August 7 (thelovefestival.com). Brief overview of various taxonomic intricacies, such as house (“As close as electronica has come to producing its own recognizable soul music”), [...]
A car honks twice, and then what follows is an inundation of descriptions of a grisly automobile accident that has taken the life of a loved one, as well as of the detached bystanders who snap mobile-phone pictures of the splattered corpse. A rector talks at length about the intense, the unknowably demanding, emotional requisites [...]
The variety on Elisa Luu‘s recent release, The Time of Waiting, from the netlabel known playfully as La Bèl (labelnetlabel.com), is enough to suggest less an album than a reel — less a collection of interrelated music than a set whose lack of self-evident correlation serves the primary purpose of expressing the wide range of [...]
There are 25 tracks on the compilation One Minute for the Sun, each 60 seconds in length, and each paying tribute, in one manner or another, to that great blinding fireball in the sky. Sublamp, a woozy, deep drone, offers thick bass-heavy undercurrents, while Koutaro Fukui‘s track, which directly precedes it, is a watery burble, [...]