Foxy Digitalis
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As soon as “Zejitsutan” begins, Yuko Araki unleashes a relentless sonic assault. Distorted waves come fast and furious, sandblasting any textural abstractions into a howling oblivion. Serrated edges cut through with harsh static as though interdimensional connections are being torn apart from the inside. The black-and-white video by Daisy Dickinson mimics the charred noise with […]
The way Alessandra Novaga’s voice winds through an ever-growing sonic maze is captivating, as though she’s gently holding us in the palm of her hand while the world grows darker. Her repeating melodies loop effortlessly in the sky atop crying strings and inquisitive guitar arrangements. Hypnotic atmospheres permeate every layer of this music, haunting the […]
The gravity of time distills into skeletal reflections on “The Pacific School.” Loren Connors and David Grubbs celebrate fragmented echoes emanating from piano and guitar, turning simple threads into silver-lined spells. Each considered note progression moves us further from our cores. Grubbs etches quiet static bursts into the hanging resonance, leaving small, emotive wakes that […]
Sunlight is refracted through a scratched prism in the effervescing stretches of Kuma’s “Her Own Private Constellation.” Crystalline timbres spread across the horizon line, blurring future visions with grayscale hallucinations. Each passage adds to the sonic expansiveness, but with our focus anchored in front, the grandeur faces backward like we’re leaving an eternal shadow in […]
“Good Fortune” is an opening. Countless pathways spark into life, snaking off into the distance at sharp angles without worry for intersection or abbreviation. Elijah McLaughlin and Caleb Willitz combine different steel timbres of electric guitar and piano, playing off chance to push each other into new directions. Glassine explorations move in from the margins […]
Expanding on his last album, The Voice of Theseus, Yann Novak enlisted a cache of stellar artists – Madeliene Cocolas, Lawrence English, FAX, and Bana Haffar – to remix the record’s tracks. In addition, after working with various vocalists to perform these works live, a final performance with G. Brenner (who contributed vocals to the […]
This is unlike any other project I’ve shared on Foxy Digitalis in recent years – it’s an album, but also an object. Nyfida is slow and purposeful, it churns up past laments and spits them out as electronic reflections. Crystalline shards dance and hover in all directions, riding feedback waves and casket memories into aqueous hollows. Polychronopoulos and Anastasakis carve out wide channels for guttural bass runs […]
Fifty years in Keiji Haino’s music resonates across interdimensional divides with distorted clarity. His work is wide, but singularly focused, always honing in on the visceral promise of sonic expression. In 2004, Haino released the enigmatic catharsis, Black Blues. Six songs, each in two different versions: Violent and Soft. While there is a tonic connection between each, the differences are chasmic. […]
Antwerp-based composer Miaux’s new album, Never Coming Back, creates a sense of distance from a place that once held us back. Synth arrangements pull inward before spiraling into the distant skies. “In the closing track ‘I have no desire for the close company of other people,’ hope and redemption seem to guide towards another world,” Miaux explains. Asymmetric […]