Foxy Digitalis
This mix is dedicated to Garden Portal, a North Carolina label started in 2019 that released a wide variety of American folk music ranging from traditional to highly experimental. Garden Portal had a very consistent and cohesive vision with its releases, so that even disparate sounds made perfect sense together under the label’s general vibe, […]
Today, Garden Portal releases their killer spring batch and I highly recommend jumping over to their page and picking those up if you haven’t already. All four releases are worth your time. To end this 4-week run (which has been great and I would love to do this kind of thing more so labels/artists – holler at […]
Penultimate Garden Portal premiere today, this time from the inimitable Jeffrey Alexander. “Perpetual Sunrise” is my favorite song off Alexander’s new tape, Reyes, as it drifts into radiant zones of plucked guitar and astral drones. Peaceful feelings permeate the tune as it gently drifts along, a languid float in the lake, eyes closed as you […]
Week #2 (of 4!) on the Garden Portal premiere front brings us another wonderful video from Katrina Ohstrom (also check their Instagram), this time of Wendy Eisenberg’s “a line” from Cellini’s Halo. Eisenberg left their mark on my 2020 with the utterly enchanting, brilliant Auto, but “a line” (and Cellini’s Halo generally) is on a different planet. Their guitar playing zigzags like a lost insect climbing […]
Garden Portal launches a new tape batch into the garden on March 26th and every Friday leading up to it, we’re going to premiere a video from each release. Very stoked. Up first is Peter Kris whose No Language For The Feeling double cassette + photo zine is an absolute peach. Kris made a lasting impression on me with last […]