Interviews
Joa Joys music sounds and feels like his name. There’s a languid earnestness in the airy melodies and discordant chord progressions of his latest album, Alvie, but it’s all imbued with humor and mystery. Homemade instruments spew novel timbres, creating strange aural outcroppings etched with glassine tones and gummy resonances. A bouncing cadence underpins the […]
Interviews
Lesley Mok’s new album, transient, is so unconcerned with a destination that the music seems to wander infinitely. Textural rhythms move with the cadence of living, building sonic spaces that feel both inhabited and imagined. Emotive undercurrents are woven into blurred, melodic drones and aerated, electronic sequences. The lightness is the invitation, but something heavier […]
Interviews
Lorena Alvarez and Alejandro Palacios create shapeshifting, immersive soundworlds. Intricate melodies are harnessed and pulled apart, creating trance-like moments where time slows and details bloom. Their latest, Jardín Giratorio, has a muted sheen, colored with tape hiss and soft resonances. It is very lived in. Shades of whimsy emerge naturally as though Alvarez and Palacios […]
Interviews
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Joa Joys music sounds and feels like his name. There’s a languid earnestness in the airy melodies and discordant chord progressions of his latest album, Alvie, but it’s all imbued with humor and mystery. Homemade instruments spew novel timbres, creating strange aural outcroppings etched with glassine tones and gummy resonances. A bouncing cadence underpins the […]
Lesley Mok’s new album, transient, is so unconcerned with a destination that the music seems to wander infinitely. Textural rhythms move with the cadence of living, building sonic spaces that feel both inhabited and imagined. Emotive undercurrents are woven into blurred, melodic drones and aerated, electronic sequences. The lightness is the invitation, but something heavier […]
Lorena Alvarez and Alejandro Palacios create shapeshifting, immersive soundworlds. Intricate melodies are harnessed and pulled apart, creating trance-like moments where time slows and details bloom. Their latest, Jardín Giratorio, has a muted sheen, colored with tape hiss and soft resonances. It is very lived in. Shades of whimsy emerge naturally as though Alvarez and Palacios […]
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Concepcion Huerta!! She’s got a fantastic new album out, “Nothing Remains Everything Resonates,” on July 3 recorded at EMS in Stockholm. We talked about that, resonance and signal paths, and the magic of every day sounds. Then we get into her love of Cumbia, Psychic TV, […]
This is the first time in a while that I’ve managed to get two Capsule Gardens out in a month, and considering everything else that’s been happening in June, that’s a miracle. As ever, thanks for reading, and thanks for the support. New Morning Sounds recordings were shared recently. The Jewel Garden continues ahead with […]
Kate Carr records cities as people usually only experience them, as a specific body moving through a specific space. It’s personal and partial, and on Vertical London, that partiality is the point. Vertical London is her experience of the city from bottom to top on a particular day (New Year’s Day, in this case). It […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ben Vida! I can’t overemphasize how much of a fan I am of Ben’s work generally, and especially his latest album, “Oblivion Seekers.” It follows-up the brilliant “The Beat My Head Hit,” and as ever, there is nobody working with language in the way Ben does, […]
Interviews
Joa Joys music sounds and feels like his name. There’s a languid earnestness in the airy melodies and discordant chord progressions of his latest album, Alvie, but it’s all imbued with humor and mystery. Homemade instruments spew novel timbres, creating strange aural outcroppings etched with glassine tones and gummy resonances. A bouncing cadence underpins the […]
Interviews
Lesley Mok’s new album, transient, is so unconcerned with a destination that the music seems to wander infinitely. Textural rhythms move with the cadence of living, building sonic spaces that feel both inhabited and imagined. Emotive undercurrents are woven into blurred, melodic drones and aerated, electronic sequences. The lightness is the invitation, but something heavier […]
Interviews
Lorena Alvarez and Alejandro Palacios create shapeshifting, immersive soundworlds. Intricate melodies are harnessed and pulled apart, creating trance-like moments where time slows and details bloom. Their latest, Jardín Giratorio, has a muted sheen, colored with tape hiss and soft resonances. It is very lived in. Shades of whimsy emerge naturally as though Alvarez and Palacios […]
Interviews
It’s easy to get swept away in the motorik synth sequences and floating cadences on Phantom Horse’s latest, Primal Forms. An almost-supernatural quality imbues the kosmische structures with sculptural harmonics and neon frequencies. Detailed accoutrements spit out dot-matrix style, pointillistic melodies, a balance to the free-flowing rhythms driving Primal Forms forward. Phantom Horse builds sonic […]
Interviews
Myths are unearthed here and rebuilt into something entrancing and immersive, so much so that it feels like a memory. Mexico City composer and producer Nnux (Ana E. Lopez Reyes) creates an excavation site from sonic rituals on her latest album, Metamorfosis. Inner worlds are explored through historical silhouettes, sound working as a mirror. Aqueous […]
