Foxy Digitalis
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Tomin! This one feels full circle. Ever since learning about Tomin’s music nearly four years ago, I’ve felt a special connection to it. It’s been hard to explain, but after seeing his picks for this episode and talking to him about them, it makes a lot […]
My overriding feeling after multiple playthroughs of Bogdan Raczynski’s latest, You’re Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever, is that I’ve been on a time-traveling adventure. Even though these are described as ‘sketches,’ chained together they form a vivid soundworld. Each snippet is a self-contained idea, ranging from midnight, subterranean raves, and charred […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s amelia courthouse! I loved her last album, “ruby glass,” a lot, but the connection with the new one, “broken things,” runs so much deeper. We talked about growing up with church hymns and the affinity we still feel for a lot of that music before diving […]
Viktor Kubal’s 1981 animated film, The Bloody Lady, is full of whimsy and horror that are mined for interest and tension. Unsurprisingly, it is fertile ground for claire rousay’s alternate score. “VIII” swims in melancholy with emotive piano melodies pockmarking a droning underscore like acid raindrops through limestone. String arrangements waver into growing dissonant charms […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Chuck Johnson! His new album, “Sun Glories,” has been out for a few months, but it’s hitting harder as the temperatures finally drop here. We got into the record, the nature of collaboration, hope, and more before digging into his picks. Chuck kept me on my […]
Lighter is such an appropriate name for the collaborative project between Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Maïa Ibar, and Boshra AlSaadi because this music is effervescent and lifts us. Lithe melodic swirls are blurred into slow-motion meditations, built on air and ageless spirits. Anastasia Cazabon’s video heightens the expansive sonic journey with surrealist imagery, vivid lighting, and a […]
“Distance to Soil” is enchanting and immersive, cryptic melodies create sonic ripples in the sky while the earth shatters underneath. NAKAMURA Hiroyuki narrows our focus with stunning visuals and surreal narratives in the accompanying video. Strings coalesce into a point as synth arrangements drift into elegiac clouds with vivid silhouettes. When real-world reminders bleed into […]
“A Thick Event” glows white with guttural viscosity, sound bellowing within space within space. Alma Laprida uses low frequencies to resonate her tromba marina, turning the instrument into sonic ghosts in the void. Strings shake out notes buried under debris, hinting at trembling melodies humming deep within the abyss. Laprida rides the edge of disintegration […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Sarah Davachi! Sarah’s one of the hardest working people in world of experimental music, so much so that she has TWO new releases out and on the way. Her latest, “The Head As Form’d In The Crier’s Choir,” came out last month, and it’s incredible. In […]