Foxy Digitalis
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Andrew Pekler on the show. Andrew’s new album as SG, For Lovers Only / Rain Suite is an absolute gem – an album I keep returning to this year. After chatting about the record for a bit, we get into the all-encompassing everything of Bo […]
New York-based, Taiwanese composer and vibraphonist Yuhan Su has been on a winding, circuitous journey. From early, classical studies in Taiwan to diving headfirst into the New York jazz scene, and more recently a six-month residency in Paris, all of these paths have led to her latest album, Liberated Gesture. It’s a record that caught me […]
It’s a bit of a light week at Foxy Digitalis as I’ll be traveling until the weekend, but there’s still plenty of goods. This week’s Songs of Our Lives is a treat. If you enjoyed the oral history of D/A/D’s “Love Will Make You Stay,” (or you’re a fan of Cobra Kai or Weird: The Al Yankovic Story) then definitely check out […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite film composer Zach Robinson on the show. Foxy Digitalis fans may remember Zach from the recent oral history of D/A/D’s “Love Will Make You Stay.” After getting into his recent and upcoming work (Obliterated on Netflix and season six of Cobra Kai), we go into […]
Kirk Barley’s Marionette is an album of details and movement. Melodic passages dance in stray moonlight, glowing like beacons in a welcoming darkness. There are fractured ideas recontextualized into glittering aural dreams. Resonance pulls us in for an up close view, but as tempos flicker and change, the picture becomes less clear. It’s part of the allure, […]
One of 2023’s most interesting projects, and one that I have returned to regularly, is Sonic Mud’s Above Ground. The ensemble features ceramic instruments made by Julia Elsas, a multi-media artist and educator in New York, and an ensemble featuring Elsas, Kirk Knuffke, Kenny Wollesen, Mike Irwin, Madeleine Ventrice, and Doug Weiselman. Together, the sextet creates rich, earthy soundscapes […]
Back after a week off, just in time for (the last? Probably? Hopefully!?) Bandcamp Friday. There was a lot more music I was hoping to get to this week (well, I listened, but couldn’t put enough of a coherent thought together to include here), but I do want to give a special mention to the […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite chef and writer Natasha Pickowicz on the show. Natasha is a three-time James Beard Award finalist who published her first cookbook, More Than Cake, earlier this year, and, in another lifetime, did some excellent features for Foxy Digitalis. We have known each other for over […]
For this episode of Songs of Our Lives, I invite Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe on the show. After learning about how he first got into soundtracking and scoring work and I tell a story about the time we actually met in person, Robert brings the heat. We wade well beyond the deep end, getting into […]