Foxy Digitalis
I’m having an Alex Cunningham renaissance at the moment. Between the alien zones he and Mark Shippy explore on Ghost Note to the full-on macromeditations of As Slow as the Stream. Cunningham’s approach to the violin is so singular and striking that I started wondering where it all comes from. There are so many moments on these recent […]
Nick Zanca’s Cacerolazo continues to get near-daily rotations here, new sounds and ideas revealing themselves each time. It’s such an immersive listening experience for me and is an album that might seem challenging at first, but is so listenable once it sets in. Nick put together this stellar mix-ish. In his own words: “It’s less of a […]
For Jamie Stewart’s HEXA mixtape, Exhibition Copy, he digs deep. Like the new HEXA album, his collaboration with Lawrence English, there’s a surprising thread that runs through the whole of this mix. Of course, the HEXA album, Material Interstices, is a heady subterranean drifter and while there’s some deep bass and snarling electronics peppered throughout […]
There’s something about Derek Gedalecia’s Headboggle project that always keeps me guessing and slightly confused. It’s one of the many reasons I am consistently smitten with his work. Beyond the interesting sonic pathways he explores, there’s a certain humor to his tunes that engages in ways that a lot of similar music fails to do. […]
Home Learning is the duo of Tom Schmidlin (of pagination) and Edmund Osterman (of Screener). Their latest album, wireframed, is a drifting slab of permeable melancholy housed in an ultraviolet freefall. It’s music that glows under the right light, haunting in its graceful movements and severed from the planes of time. Schmidlin and Osterman assembled this […]
Collaborative mix from a collaborative project! Requiem (Doug Kallmeyer and Tristan Welch) have joined forces again with cellist Simon McCorry for a beautiful new album, Joy; Division, on Woodford Halse. Their music is haunting with Requiem’s emotive drone works buoyed by McCrory’s skillful cello magic. Joy; Division cradles the darkness. Pre-order the album, which releases […]
Our friends at TUSK return with another mix, this time a collection of favorites for drifting off into the nether expanses of the cosmos in the dying days of summer (hey it’s still 95 degrees here as I write this). As ever, it’s a brilliant mix that moves all over the place. With Bandcamp Friday […]
When Alan Jones isn’t busy making one of the year’s best music documentaries (seriously, if you haven’t seen the Keith Rowe doc, fix that this weekend), he is often making excellent music. I was impressed by his collaboration with Gabi Losoncy from earlier this year and last year’s A Jurist For Nothing is an album […]
TUSK Festival is a UK mainstay, offering some of the most unique programming around and generally bending minds and opening new avenues with their events. I feel a real kinship with TUSK’s mission to bring supposedly difficult music to more mainstream situations and audiences. Obviously the pandemic has thrown a wrench in their operations, but […]