Foxy Digitalis
Matt McBane crafts vivid sonic landscapes through intricate patterns and fluid atmospheres on his latest album, Buoy. Synthesizers drift through gently propulsive rhythms, reshaping perspectives into nuanced moods and speculative reflections. Movement is at the heart of Buoy, with evolving sequences drawing emotional depth from shifting melodies and rich, tonal dreamscapes. McBane expands the sonic […]
David T. Little’s Black Lodge project is a wild trip. “It was 113° in the Mojave when we arrived to capture the long shadows cast by the setting sun,” Little shares. The extreme environment perfectly lends itself to the music itself. An all-encompassing, overwhelming performance from Timur and the Dime Museum, along with Isaura String Quartet, punctuates […]
The Capsule Garden returns after a week off with a plethora of new growth. As ever, Foxy Digitalis Daily is over on Patreon today – check that out if you are so inclined! It definitely feels like summer here – the kid is out of school and started summer camp, but more importantly, I had my first […]
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 […]
At a certain point in Tyshawn Sorey’s arresting composition for one of his mentors, the inimitable George Lewis, a shift happens. Across 53 minutes, Sorey creates motionless forward momentum. Notes are stretched near the breaking point and then stretched further. Discordant harmonies broaden the view, pushing the focus across through a needlepoint as the stellar […]