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This may well be the last Capsule Garden for 2025, as I want to finish a year-in-review article before taking a break at the end of December. But no worries, it will return in 2026. A lot of personal housekeeping ahead, so if you are uninterested in my work, The Jewel Garden, etc., feel free […]
Intersecting threads bind Lea Bertucci’s “Vapours” to an ephemeral point on the horizon. Elegiac string arrangements are in constant, subtle motion, sparked into action by the world’s decay moving from the margins into its core. Commissioned and performed by Italy’s Quartetto Maurice, Bertucci’s composition finds life in sparse textures and connection in the unseen spirit […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci’s debut collaborative album, Murmurations, is out this week on Cibachrome Editions and it’s been in heavy rotation here over the last couple of months. Murmurations lands with a restrained force. It’s music that’s considered and heavy but […]
The disorienting intensity popping across the spatial plane on Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci’s “Gasps and Spasms,” the opening track from their forthcoming collaborative debut, Murmurations, is all-encompassing. Sputtering woodwinds crackle to life, growling beneath a wall of electronic debris. Tape detritus fizzles in the open spaces, opening cracks for Bertucci’s voice to twist itself into […]