Foxy Digitalis
Some programming notes to start: Why? The main reason is that I have a solo exhibition called Lost Waters opening in Tulsa on October 11 and will be completely swamped with that to start the month. If you are in town that evening, please come by! If you are going to be passing through Tulsa […]
Early on Ian Wellman’s latest album, The Night The Stars Fell, a foreboding sense of despair takes root in the melancholic chord progressions and stark field recordings. This hopelessness shifts, though, somehow becomes comforting in the way it connects us to things we already know, but don’t want to admit. Narratives emerge from the wind-blown whispers […]
It’s been a banner year for Byron Westbrook. Hands in the Dark released his evocative album, Distortion Hue, to start the year and it set the standard. His most recent album, Mirror View, comes via Ash International and is a surprise departure that pays off. Utilizing field recordings, sound installation works, and other sonic elements, Westbrook offers […]
Byron Westbrook’s Distortion Hue is one of the year’s densest, most visceral drone records, but with his new album on Ash International, Mirror Views, he takes a step back to view the wider landscape. Mirror Views is composed of cassette field recordings made in August of 2017, around the solar eclipse, combined with subtle synthetic elements. The effect is disarming on […]