Interviews
It’s been nearly 20 years since I was introduced to Buck Curran’s music (in the form of Arborea). His unique playing style and approach to improvisation have always made his work occupy a specific place in my mind. On his new album, Illuminations, those methods are paired with the work of my favorite poet, Arthur […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tom Carter!! I’ve been listening to Tom’s music for at least three decades at this point, and I still get super excited when he’s got something new cooking. His recent project, Chrome Chasm (with Mlie Marie and Will Adams) is one of those! We talk about […]
Interviews
Some things take longer than expected, but it often makes the payoff sweeter. Ziemba’s new album, The Braid, took over five years to write and record, but it lands with a sharp impact. Languid songscapes harness power in pulling listeners close, the songs striking like a biting whisper. These stories are deeply personal and ageless […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Kee Avil! I really love the novel approach she took to writing, recording, and releasing her new album, “Vapor,” and was excited to talk to her about it and learn about its pros and cons. We get through all of that before diving into This Heat, […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. Patricia Wolf and Jordan Reyes have both been heavily featured in the pages of Foxy Digitalis over the last two years (and will continue to be, I’m sure!). It would take ages to catalog all of […]
With the latest video from their recent album, Bathymetry, Matt McBane and Sandbox Percussion encase listeners within a crystalline soundworld on “Surface.” Textural movements glide through clear space, the only hints of friction coming in the interactive silhouettes between ASMR-infused scrapes and the bass echoes of a Moog synthesizer. For music so spacious, the detailed interactions […]
Argentina’s Lujo Asiático thread an interdimensional divide on the lush meditations of After Ashram. Musically diverse but always simmering with one hand touching the cosmos, the group spends the album’s runtime traversing expansive sonic terrain. Sitar, saxophone, synths, vocals, and a 100+-year-old harmonium open a welcoming portal beyond consciousness. Infused with aqueous field recordings, from calming […]
I wrote about Corntuth’s lovely new album, Letters to My Robot Son, in last week’s Capsule Garden, and I highly recommend giving it a listen. His mix for Foxy Digitalis collects music that inspired the album; with the added context, new layers and realizations about it come into view. Here’s what Corntuth has to say about the […]
Pulling the curtain back on this fantastic new collaboration from two all-timers reveals a methodic approach to creating restrained grandeur. Using a collection of recordings from a century-old pipe organ in Brisbane, Australia, Scott Morgan (aka loscil) and Lawrence English embark headfirst on a trip of emotive electronic pathways. Geometric patterns in the video move […]
Inside the fragile walls of “Vågnende Jeg Ser De Døde,” midnight is a distant beacon stuck in a world of haze. øjeRum spins a calm facade across the decaying spaces beneath wistful piano arrangements and sonic interference. Strings dance behind glass at the periphery, leaving us wondering if our minds have gone or if these […]
The world that unfolds on Aviva Endean’s tremendous Moths & Stars feels expansive and deeply rooted within a vulnerable space. Visceral stretches permeate every layer of the album while its breadth grows with each track’s forward progression. Electronics spin pensive drones into aural memories spreading through our inner thoughts, encased in the glow of vibrating strings and […]
Molten Plains Fest, curated by Sarah Ruth Alexander and Ernesto Montiel, will take place next week, December 9th and 10th, in Denton, Texas. It’s an incredible two-day event of adventurous sounds and collective spirit. In celebration of this event, I asked Ernesto if he’d put together a mix of festival performers, and across these 18 tracks, […]
BUY AT BOOMKAT Following up on their excellent release on Takuroku, Portals, Marja Ahti and Judith Hamann find new ways to suspend time while connecting distances through an ever-growing sonic portrait. A coincidence is perfect takes intimate, often disparate vignettes and weaves them together in surprising ways to create a holistic emotional trek. Ahti and Hamann use sound […]
Interviews
It’s been nearly 20 years since I was introduced to Buck Curran’s music (in the form of Arborea). His unique playing style and approach to improvisation have always made his work occupy a specific place in my mind. On his new album, Illuminations, those methods are paired with the work of my favorite poet, Arthur […]
Interviews
Some things take longer than expected, but it often makes the payoff sweeter. Ziemba’s new album, The Braid, took over five years to write and record, but it lands with a sharp impact. Languid songscapes harness power in pulling listeners close, the songs striking like a biting whisper. These stories are deeply personal and ageless […]
Interviews
Sometimes a small moment will leave the darkest mark. With landtitles, those snippets get etched into my brain. Two recent releases, complete jazz box set on Home Normal and geographic beings, phosphorous mountains on Whitelabrecs, build intricate, fluid realms from these tiny sonic slivers. Old machines glean melodic detritus from the magic hour on the […]
Interviews
I first knew Brandon Locher as a visual artist, constantly floored by his drawings and the depth and detail he created with colored pencils. I don’t remember how we first connected, but earlier this year I was excited to take part in his Ongoing Solos project. When he shared his album, Rahu Ketu, over the […]
Interviews
I love the Allotment Tapes. Perhaps that’s a bit simple, but Ben McElroy’s ongoing project to document, collaborate with, and share the world of St. Ann’s allotments in Nottingham is a small slice of magic. This is quietly important work. The size and maze-like quality to St. Ann’s are like a kind of score, each […]
