Interviews
Someone whose thought process goes something like, “What would this thing sound like if I attached a string to it and bowed it?” is someone after my own heart. That’s what Jon Rose has done for years. He’s a violinist and composer first and foremost, but over the decades he has acquired and created a […]
Interviews
For so many, music is a reflective pool. Emotions woven with harmony and exploration become avenues to work through something or find understanding. Deniz Cuylan’s For Luca is a sonic shrine to his dearly departed dog, but it’s also a celebration of small moments that hold immense weight. Wistful melodies are wishes as much as […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Ótal! I first stumbled on his work via his “Heyr” album sometime last year and have been a big, big fan every since! The Icelandic-born, Akron-based composer has a new record out now called “Fjöður” – big time recommendation! We talk about the processes behind it […]
Interviews
When I first heard about composer Katherine Young’s Biomes project – this framework for collaboration through composition and improvisation – and its description as an ecosystem, the joy centers in my brain lit up. I mean, yes, scientifically, a biome is an ecosystem, but Young’s presentation of this as a set of rules for sonic […]
In the opening seconds of The Arabic Room, it’s as though Mephisto Halabi snaps his fingers and instantly transports us to his childhood home in Lebanon. Hypnotic chants and rhythms repeat before the dial is turned and a soothing voice turns up for a few moments before the dynamite explodes. Halabi is the moniker used by […]
Hot on the heels of Anthony Sahyoun’s incredible new album, Proof By Infinite Descent, comes this beguiling mix of Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, and Palestinian music. The Beirut artist weaves countless inspirations and sources into his record. Listening to this 67-minute mix, certain threads emerge and we can hear how he combined some of these elements into […]
I’ve lost count of how many wonderful guitar records there have been this year, but as we barrel to the end of 2021, the hits keep coming. Most striking is the breadth of styles, sounds, and emotions artists are bringing to the fold and Premo adds another pyre to the collection with the worldwide electric […]
Caprichos is the debut from the duo of Cecilia Lopez and Joe Moffett, though the two have worked together in various forms since 2018. Recorded in late summer 2020, Caprichos is a strange and inviting world torn down to a granular level. Lopez on synthesizer and electronics with Moffett playing acoustic and amplified trumpet create […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. When I heard Golden Brown (aka Stefan Beck) was releasing his new album, Gems and Minerals, on the Inner Islands label, it made a lot of sense. As one of my favorite labels around right now, Beck’s rich and soothing sonic worlds feel […]
Bastian Void’s Topia is my favorite missive from the project so far. Topia is an alternative reality where the neon never fades and the golden skyways go past the horizon. On “Poly’s Hallway,” synthesizers percolate in a rhythmic maze as pads drift and swell effortlessly above the cybernetic city. Beguiling animations built with rudimentary architecture and vivid hues bring […]
In the cold light of a winter morning, sharp air flowing like a stream of microscopic daggers against the skin, Robert Takahashi Crouch’s Jubilee sits in the shadows. Crouch asks in the notes about the album, “What can be communicated in my chosen medium, how can I do this, and where (or what) is the porous boundary […]
When I started releasing music and thinking about getting Foxy Digitalis going again, Aidan Hanratty was one of the first people to reach out. He interviewed me for his Bandcloud newsletter last year and we’ve stayed in semi-regular contact since. Bandcloud is a weekly treasure trove of interesting music that’s often overlooked in other spaces […]
As ½ of the swirling duo of psychedelic electronic profligacy, Sculpture, Dan Hayhurst has created some of the strangest, and most wonderful, webs of sound imaginable. His recent solo album, Counters, is an extension of that theme in the way it disturbs the universal flow and pretty much dissolves everything it touches into bubbling sonic goop. […]
Interviews
Someone whose thought process goes something like, “What would this thing sound like if I attached a string to it and bowed it?” is someone after my own heart. That’s what Jon Rose has done for years. He’s a violinist and composer first and foremost, but over the decades he has acquired and created a […]
Interviews
For so many, music is a reflective pool. Emotions woven with harmony and exploration become avenues to work through something or find understanding. Deniz Cuylan’s For Luca is a sonic shrine to his dearly departed dog, but it’s also a celebration of small moments that hold immense weight. Wistful melodies are wishes as much as […]
Interviews
When I first heard about composer Katherine Young’s Biomes project – this framework for collaboration through composition and improvisation – and its description as an ecosystem, the joy centers in my brain lit up. I mean, yes, scientifically, a biome is an ecosystem, but Young’s presentation of this as a set of rules for sonic […]
Interviews
I think a lot about the sonic profile of important spaces in my life, and how to create things that share that imprint of a place with others. So many of my memories and relational connections are defined by sound. Roxane Métayer, Katya Shirshkova, and Sara Eelen, through Périodique des Chemins Boueux / Herbes Étincelles, […]
Interviews
Julio Lopez folds time and distance in on itself with Cloud Unknowing, their new album and booklet. These songs flow with a gentleness, always creating a soft landing, even as Lopez explores deep crevices and sharp edges in this music. This album is a vulnerable articulation of something buried in muscle and soil, and their […]
