Interviews
I love hearing an artist’s practice expand and evolve (and sometimes fold back in on itself) over long periods of time, and I’ve been lucky to have that experience with New Zealand composer Pat Kraus. His singular path continued with last month’s stellar Water Music on Artsy. Synths and electronics bleep out globular melodies as […]
Songs of Our Lives
This week on Songs of Our Lives, Dis Fig returns! I am so thrilled to have Felicia Chen back on the show to talk about her incredible new record, “What To Make Of These Mortal Hands.” After a lot of excellent yapping about the ideas and processes behind it, we get into Rowdy Rebel, Joni […]
The Capsule Garden
It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted one of these columns, and for that I apologize! A lot has happened since the last one, but the main thing I want to mention is something Ryan/Akira Film Script and I started called the Concrèmo Series on The Jewel Garden. It’s an extension of a genre/idea […]
Interviews
Music can be a conduit for time travel. Andy Aquarius’s new album, Vale of Tears, feels far removed from the present. Across 12 harp songs, he reflects in the quiet of a retired Church of the Holy Cross nestled in the Croatian mountains. Spacious synths and textured aural environments support harp and voice, which remain […]
During the latter days of the second Foxy Digitalis insurgent (what?), Good Willsmith put out one of my favorite records (2014’s The Honeymoon Workbook). I haven’t kept up with them as much since as I should have, but this live recording is stellar and unexpected. These loose jams suck you through a time warp, throwing […]
Picking up old threads as 2013 bleeds into 2021. Hello again… On January 31st, 2013 when I pressed ‘publish’ on the final installment of my long-running column, The Long Decline, I 100% believed that was the end of Foxy Digitalis in any form. I hadn’t dropped any hints or made any announcements leading up to the […]
Interviews
I love hearing an artist’s practice expand and evolve (and sometimes fold back in on itself) over long periods of time, and I’ve been lucky to have that experience with New Zealand composer Pat Kraus. His singular path continued with last month’s stellar Water Music on Artsy. Synths and electronics bleep out globular melodies as […]
Interviews
Music can be a conduit for time travel. Andy Aquarius’s new album, Vale of Tears, feels far removed from the present. Across 12 harp songs, he reflects in the quiet of a retired Church of the Holy Cross nestled in the Croatian mountains. Spacious synths and textured aural environments support harp and voice, which remain […]
Interviews
Hiram’s music connects spaces and defines worlds. Immersed in specific natural environments, he listens and channels what he hears through different instrumentation. Wooden flute expressions build green waves, melting into synth textures and flecked percussion. He draws the emotive core from wind and birdsong and plants it into slow-moving, reflective compositions, music that pulls inward […]
Interviews
Anita Tatlow’s voice builds worlds. Whispered melodies bloom into spiraling sequences, a living road map that reads like a memoir. On her newest album, the roads that shaped us, she explores the places she hasn’t been swaddled in the context of where she is. It’s a beautiful, drifting meditation on place in the sense of […]
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 […]
