Foxy Digitalis
It is Bandcamp Friday (and Good Friday, apparently!) for those who celebrate. Get out there and support artists and labels that have made your world a better place (and, as the good folks at Bandcamp United have said, it’s not crossing a picket line or anything!). Today’s pick is definitely one to pick up if […]
Foxy Digitalis has been back for just over two years now, and I find it difficult to get my head around it. Throughout that period, though, the core idea and drive have remained the same, even if the pieces and structures have shifted somewhat. I’m excited the site launched a handful of new columns and […]
When I first heard Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson’s “Dreki 2. Brölt,” I wasn’t sure what to think, but I found myself listening to it repeatedly. The more I read about Gunnarsson’s Landvættirnar fjórar project, my interest in this strange, fascinating story grew. I highly recommend reading the liner notes for the album HERE. “Dreki 2. Brölt” is an inquisitive […]
The shapes Laura Cocks breathes into life with her various flutes is a bit of aural magic. On their debut full-length, five pieces from five different composers become tactile arrangements that never buckle under considerable physicality. Experimentation is as much a tool as it is a methodology and hearing Cocks’ use of it to get […]
Led by New York-based composers Vicente Hansen Atria and Mat Muntz, The Vex Collection uses new and surprising combinations of traditional instruments and original music contraptions (designed by the composers via 3-D-printing technology) to simultaneously create an alternate sonic history and a new impossible future. On “Fugue,” highland bagpipes and Korean taepyeongso (a conical double […]
I am always so taken with the ferocity and agility with which Laura Cocks plays the flute. Their new album, field anatomies, explores the degree to which a body can be pushed and what exists in the space beyond our limitations. Cocks’ music exists in simultaneous spheres of deep, investigative realities and an effervescent glow of […]
I’ve been having a real bassoon renaissance the past month or so and my obsession led me to this gem from bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward and clarinetist Zachary Good (plus, another mention of Dana Jessen’s incredible Winter Chapel, also on Carrier). With arb the two grind out deep, hollow drones. There’s this wonderful quality to these pieces where the […]