Foxy Digitalis
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Fractured narratives and elegiac tonescapes combine for a timeless, otherworldly experience in Olivier Cong’s “They don’t sleep on the Beach anymore.” Framed by textural sonic washes, melodic blurs lead to familiar sound worlds. Melancholic note patterns hang in still air as though time stops, shining a spotlight on specific moments we’ve long tried to forget. Cong paints […]
Unexpected collaborations can bring such fruitful returns. Kenneth James Gibson has been a regular on Foxy Digitalis for the last few years, but this newest effort with former Frank Zappa saxophonist Paul Carman takes us into new, ephemeral spaces. Built on a framework of saxophone recordings made at Gibson’s Idyllwild studio, “Finding New Language” rises and falls with […]
What dreams lurk in the distance? Where do our nightmares send us in the end? Yorkshire Modular Society’s “Fiery the Angels Fell” is a languid drift through empty space reflecting on the fall. Blurred landscapes move in slow motion, melodic echoes stretched beyond time and into a moment of stillness. Within its glacial progressions, this music is immersive and almost […]
One thing I love about Mountain Movers is their ability to be shapeshifters. Their records often cover plenty of ground, but the music never feels disjointed or out of place. “Reclamation Yard,” from their upcoming album Walking After Dark, astral travels through a third-eye continuum. Eben Kling and Aude Jomini (of FEED New Haven) craft one of […]
There’s a beguiling tension in the sharp synth timbres and drifting, ethereal vocalizations on Requiem’s “Breathe.” Momentum builds gradually in the underlying swells as Andrew Toy’s rhythms emerge from the Earth. Monica Stroik sings through the changing sonic shapes brought on by Tristan Welch’s crystalline guitar exultations and Doug Kallmeyer’s shifting synthesizer forms. It’s like […]
A carefully controlled chaos and sense of drama permeates this sonic mosaic, a frenetic and heady exploration. ACVilla’s collage-like storytelling heightens the sharp, sudden movements and countless timbres in “Worlds In A Life (An Idea Of What It Is).” Piano strings bellow from the depths, ridden by rapid-fire synth explorations and percussive drops. The imagery […]
I can’t think of a much better way to celebrate Earth Day than with new music from Patricia Wolf. On “Greylag Geese Through the Listening Sculpture at Tjörnin,” from her upcoming album on Nite Hive, The Secret Lives of Birds, she frames spirited field recordings with gentle, aerial electronic patterns. There’s a tenderness to the sonic […]
Cutting a sharp, neon visage against a crumbling wall, Morgan Garrett emerges from a mess of wires. “Suck” coalesces acute-angled sonic shards into a hollow ghost story. Woozy acoustic strums give way to clattering rhythms and electronic discord, a cataclysm of internalized horror. The stop-start cadence of “Suck” adds to the tension and dissonance, Garrett’s […]
It’s the golden hour and a new world comes alive. Wistful guitar melodies flicker in the distance, pulling us closer to the horizon where electronics dance in whimsical patterns. Everything on Saapato’s wonderful “Morning Swale Song” swirls beneath a hazy veil, buoyed by the gentle whispers of insects and creeks. Bailey Elder’s video lulls our […]