Foxy Digitalis
Brad Rose is a multi-disciplinary artist and dad based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He previously ran the Digitalis label from 2003 to 2015. He is the principal writer and editor-in-chief of Foxy Digitalis.
CriesLol is the brainchild of Mateo Galindo, with help from Zak Modell and Rola Zeyada, and finds a way to drain the sonic deserts of sand and pour them into a cauldron of boundless styles. Strip mines and desolate landscapes get dystopian makeovers on CriesLol’s compelling debut, Self Title. Extinguishing the flames from Saint Paul […]
On their own, Flow Trio (Louis Belogenis, Rashid Bakr, and Joe Morris) are a massive force. Add in Joe McPhee and you better find something sturdy to hold onto because they’re going to rip whatever’s in front of them to shreds. Winter Garden was recorded in early 2020 and finds the quartet in rare form. […]
This series of synthesizer improvisations strikes like an electric field swirling inside a glass case. Listening to these four pieces unfold, it’s a study on how sound can move and fill in empty spaces. The first piece snarls like a buzzsaw, severing ideas at the root as the notes stretch and growl until bubbling arpeggios […]
In a year peppered with a seemingly endless array of hell moments, the silver linings feel even more potent, more important. Last year as I began digging deeper into music again and taking those first steps that led to this site existing again, one of the artists whose work hit me like a brickhouse was […]
I hate that trauma can inspire such beautiful creations, but I love that, for many, art and music can be a processing bridge to navigate toward healing. Tyler Holmes’ stunning new album is a mirror reflecting tenderness and forgiveness while masking pain and the darkness that follows. Their journey inward and defiance in the face […]
Somewhere inside the inimitable Ryler Walker’s latest, everything clicks and Course In Fable becomes not just a celebration of so much that I love about music and how it can make people feel, but a monument to the path it takes to get here. Walker is a lifer. I tried to pretend for a while […]
Perfect Angels is an apt name for this band of psychedelic pop traffickers. This showed up in my inbox with no information. Basically everything on the release page is in French. I have no idea what’s going on (okay, other than ex-OSR Tapes mogul, Zach Phillips, is behind the label and is half of the […]
Evocative titles like Potential Landscapes catch my attention immediately. Tristan Kasten-Krause is a new name to me, but from the opening minutes of “Dawn Looming” and its droning strings that are the sound of a new world being born. Potential Landscapes masterfully harnesses the power of sound to create a universe unto itself, a place […]
Khan Jamal is one of the best vibraphone and marimba players on the planet. Hell, one of the best to ever live. Infinity has been one of those records of legend that people paid over the moon for, so seeing it beautifully reissued by Jazz Room is cause for celebration (let’s hope Give The Vibes […]