Foxy Digitalis
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. Cheryl Leonard has quickly become an artist in ‘must hear’ territory. Her sonic landscapes are intricate and engaging, inviting listeners into strange, often delicate spaces, where the unfamiliar is simultaneously challenging to our perceptions and comforting. […]
I finished writing this piece a few days ago before news of jaimie branch’s passing broke, and amidst the heartbreak, I keep thinking of her irrepressible, generous spirit. She always showed up. Listening to her irrepressible, searching runs on “Dayenu,” and thinking about where the title comes from (a Passover song) and what the word […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. It makes sense that Vanessa Rossetto was a painter before she dove into music and sound art. Her music is vivid and textural, and each expressive moment is a small piece of a more enormous spectacle, […]
There’s a real magic that happens when someone is able to not just translate the spirit of a song into a visual form but also add a new dimension of expression to it. Venezuelan artist and designer Pablo E. Peña P. programmed a generative algorithm that takes “Springtime in Croatia” from Patricia Wolf’s See-Through into an enchanting […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. I’ve spent a lot of time with Steve Fors’ upcoming album, it’s nothing, but still, and it only grows better each time. Sometimes, something catches me out of nowhere like a silk thread on a jagged […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. Nick Millevoi is one of those people that the more I get to know him, and the more we talk, the more I like him. He buoys an infectious enthusiasm for music with a deep knowledge […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. I was transfixed the first time I heard Attia Taylor’s new album, Space Ghost. The combination of the engaging, melodic musicality and not simply the story she tells on the album but the way she […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Chloe Alexandra Thompson’s work is often immersive and tactile. The Cree, Canadian interdisciplinary artist uses sound as a medium for connection, often in site-specific installations and sculptures. Sonically, the music can be imposing and even intimidating, but her methods break […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Until Relative Pitch released Masayo Koketsu’s enthralling FUKIYA earlier this year, I was unfamiliar with the saxophonist’s work. FUKIYA was revelatory, though. In the single 46-minute improvised piece, Koketsu runs through a gamut of techniques and ideas, all infused with a free, inquisitive spirit […]