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.
Scratchy chord swells overwhelm a looping sense of decay churning beneath the waves of “Night Owl.” Los Angeles’s VESSITT fuses moments of enticing aural drama with a tranquilizing sonic undercurrent. This music has sharp edges around its lithe flow, echoed in the visual dichotomies presented throughout this captivating video. Movement is a constant, bright color […]
When I wrote about Gina Izzo’s spellbinding ladyybirdd project recently, I described it as the Wild West of solo flute music. The deeper I dig into her new album, Tomorrow’s Yesterday, the truer that axiom becomes. Izzo bends flute passages into dazzling, expansive sound worlds buoyed by dancing rhythms and gilded electronics. Adding to the mesmerizing […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, Tulsa went off last weekend and my kid got to make her live debut playing a score I wrote. WHAT?! Plus I get together w/ the Hausu Mountain fellas to talk shop, and Natalie Day creates a gentle triumph. The Hausu Mountain one! A meta chat w/ […]
When I first heard Green-House and read the description of Olive Ardizoni’s project back in early 2020 with Six Songs for Invisible Gardens, I felt an instant connection to the music and the ideas it conveyed. Since then, they have harvested growing sonic landscapes that, while adjacent to those early ideas, expand upon them to […]
Messages find us when we need them the most, sometimes embedded in a memory, other times sung in the gentle, comforting voice of Ted Lucas. Anne Malin was at a tough intersection when “Carry It All” found her. “My friend sent me this song last winter as my life was in the midst of a […]
An echo grows in the distance, between sharp piano shards, shifting synth timbres, and dampened vocal patterns. Natalie Beridze’s music always creates visceral connections, and while the cadence of “Who Dwells In Possibility” is obscured by a fogged lens, it still maps the endless sonic expanses that are never quite contained. Lilting phrasings move from […]
There’s a fine line between a dream and a nightmare sometimes, and often the colors and timbres of each intersect at a perfect point. Mol Sullivan’s “Eggshells” dives into the deepest end, tackling the difficulties of balancing one’s own needs against those of a trying friendship. Navigating the emotional strip mine of figuring out who […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Eric Mingus on the show. Eric’s newest album, Lessons From My Father, is tremendous and moving. We talk about his research on the Mingus Mill in North Carolina and collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma before diving in to memories of his father playing in the house, […]
Greenhouse (not to be confused with Green-House) is the solo moniker of Curran Faris, and on his latest, Sacrifice Zones, he harnesses the slow decay of a calming space, and the tension that underlies every subtle movement. Guitar drones and spacious explorations are imbued with sharp, intricate textures from field recordings and other sonic experimentations, accentuating […]