Foxy Digitalis
Hearing “Waterfall Winds” on Light in the Attic’s seminal I Am The Center compilation of private press new age music back in 2013 left me breathless. It’s an incredible collection, but Alice Damon’s wordless incantations and gentle electronics struck a particular nerve. Her music is sonically light and breathless, but it conveys a spirit weighed […]
The dedication of Matt LaJoie’s to his solo practice is inspiring. His Colander project took his dedication to improvising to an unbelievable level. Over the course of about 10 months, he improvised pieces each day, recording all the results and sharing them with Flower Room subscribers on a regular basis. The project finally came to […]
I’m not sure there will be a better concept for an album in 2021 than Jacken Elswyth’s Banjo With the Sound of Its Own Making. Musically, it’s lovely as she spins quiet, intimate improvisations on a mountain banjo she made throughout 2020. Elswyth is a folk musician and instrument maker by trade, but her banjo playing […]
Caught in the polyrhythmic force of Tyshawn/King, it’s like I’ve found a rip in spacetime or a wormhole to an alternative reality. Recorded over two days pre-lockdown, the five tracks on Tyshawn/King are an evolving conversation between two titans. Tyshawn Sorey and King Britt have manifested essential bodies of work on their own, but in joining forces there […]
There’s a feeling of arrival permeating the soft-focus, shapeshifting drones of Christina Giannone’s absorbing Glazed Vision. Subtle movements build on themselves to create walls of undulating sound, echoing in rhythm underneath a darkening sky. Giannone’s music is like a sheer veil surrounding a massive, intricate structure, flowing in enigmatic patterns, but still solid as a gleaming […]
Splitting the Earth in two to open this blistering sonic reverie, Maryam Sirvan throws down the gauntlet on the incredible Feast On My Body. “On the Giant’s Belly,” the Tbilisi-based Iranian composer sends lightning electronics crackling in all directions as her voice oozes out of every crevice. Feast On My Body sounds as visceral as its name implies. […]
Derek Gedalecia’s Headboggle project always pushes ideas and boundaries well beyond any reasonable zone, yet his work is always infinitely listenable. Digital Digital Analog is the most fleshed-out execution of the Headboggle vision to date. Over 24 tracks, Gedalecia skips across space and time, leavening his squelched electronics into a dizzying maze of sonic treats. Each vignette […]
Last Year’s J. Pavone String Ensemble album on Astral Spirits showed Pavone’s continued growth as a composer. With Lull, that potential comes into full view. To realize the vision of these pieces, she assembled an octet that includes the String Ensemble’s Abby Swidler on viola (Pavone also plays viola), violinists Aimée Niemann and Charlotte Munn-Wood, cellists […]
Worlds collide and break apart, forming new alien landforms in the aftermath once the smoke settles on Selvedge’s latest, Thresholds. Vast sonic expanses rise from ashen fields, marked by contemplative synth drones, desolate soundscapes, and an overarching theme of exploration. Housed in a fantastic cover, these songs are pervasive, finding unexpected ways to lodge themselves into the […]