Track-by-Track
Kirk Barley’s Marionette is an album of details and movement. Melodic passages dance in stray moonlight, glowing like beacons in a welcoming darkness. There are fractured ideas recontextualized into glittering aural dreams. Resonance pulls us in for an up close view, but as tempos flicker and change, the picture becomes less clear. It’s part of the allure, […]
Interviews
One of 2023’s most interesting projects, and one that I have returned to regularly, is Sonic Mud’s Above Ground. The ensemble features ceramic instruments made by Julia Elsas, a multi-media artist and educator in New York, and an ensemble featuring Elsas, Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wolleson, Mark Irwin, Madeleine Ventrice, and Doug Weiselman. Together, the sextet creates rich, earthy soundscapes […]
The Capsule Garden
Back after a week off, just in time for (the last? Probably? Hopefully!?) Bandcamp Friday. There was a lot more music I was hoping to get to this week (well, I listened, but couldn’t put enough of a coherent thought together to include here), but I do want to give a special mention to the […]
Songs of Our Lives
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite chef and writer Natasha Pickowicz on the show. Natasha is a three-time James Beard Award finalist who published her first cookbook, More Than Cake, earlier this year, and, in another lifetime, did some excellent features for Foxy Digitalis. We have known each other for over […]
It’s a special thing when a remix album becomes very much its own thing. All The Time In The World finds eight different artists remixing GALÁN / VOGT’s stellar The Sweet Wait, and while countless threads connect the two, this collection of reworks has a life of its own. Hélène Vogelsinger captures the spiritual and sonorous core of “Opa” and […]
Kirk Barley’s Marionette is an album of details and movement. Melodic passages dance in stray moonlight, glowing like beacons in a welcoming darkness. There are fractured ideas recontextualized into glittering aural dreams. Resonance pulls us in for an up close view, but as tempos flicker and change, the picture becomes less clear. It’s part of the allure, […]
Moses Yoofee Trio’s OCEAN EP is such a joy to listen to. Infectious beats build out into laid back, funk-infused basslines, expressive keys, and synth atmospheres. It’s got a deep core, but the edges flicker and move. Everytime I hit play and the opening runs of “At Ease” hit, I have to move. Delicate melodies dance like shadow […]
Hollow rattles and unearthly clangs plunge us deep into a sonic abyss as Concepción Huerta’s “Trepidation” groans to life. Scarring oscillations churn from the depths, rising like sawblades cutting the earth into ribbons, building tension with every forward progression. High-frequency string repetitions squeal to life dropping dissonant spikes from above. Featuring additional production from Olivia […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, Gregg Kowalsky swings by to talk about his latest album, Eso Es, and how it ended up being something in a different sound world. It’s such a great album, and it was great to catch up. Plus, the album of the week utterly blew my mind and […]
Shimmering piano accents dance in the margins behind gentle acoustic guitar strums and a quiet electronic buzz, framing Taylor Daukas’s voice in a golden glow on “False Door.” Produced by the Moone Records crew, Janie and Micah Dailey, Daukas’s new EP, Long Gone, is a spectral folk wonder, captured in still life on this opening single. […]
One of 2023’s most interesting projects, and one that I have returned to regularly, is Sonic Mud’s Above Ground. The ensemble features ceramic instruments made by Julia Elsas, a multi-media artist and educator in New York, and an ensemble featuring Elsas, Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wolleson, Mark Irwin, Madeleine Ventrice, and Doug Weiselman. Together, the sextet creates rich, earthy soundscapes […]
Back after a week off, just in time for (the last? Probably? Hopefully!?) Bandcamp Friday. There was a lot more music I was hoping to get to this week (well, I listened, but couldn’t put enough of a coherent thought together to include here), but I do want to give a special mention to the […]
Ghost melodies haunt the negative space in between LA producer and beatmaker AshTreJinkins’s drop-stop rhythmic cascades. “It’s Trash Now” harnesses the leaden gravity of an elusive, hallowed sonic glow. Loping synth lines sizzle like broken electronics, punctuating the bass drum crunch, anchoring every interstellar tether to an echo of organic debris. This music is intricate, […]
