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On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Lia Kohl! How can you not love an album that finds beauty in refrigerator hums and ringtones? That’s what Lia Kohl’s new album, “Normal Sounds,” does (among many other things!). We talk about that a bit before getting into how much we love Sade, Mendelssohn bops, […]
For 20 years, Shinkoyo has been the connective tissue for a wide range of artists, musicians, thinkers, and more, a space for pushing conceptual boundaries and visionary exploration. Over the last two decades, Shinkoyo members have been part of creating vital arts spaces like Silent Barn, Paris London West Nile (which became 285 Kent), and […]
Radio fragments are the unexpected guideposts throughout Lia Kohl’s ambitious new album, The Ceiling Reposes. Static-laden voices pepper the glassine synth expressions and waving cello arrangements, tethering sonic ephemerality to a moment of familiarity. From a Vashon Island (where these radio samples are from) weather report that might as well be an inner mantra, “Weather, as […]
Beneath a roiling veil of darkness, a burning sibilance and embedded urgency fuse together, forming a cathartic gravity pulling us toward an intersection point. Even though we constantly deviate from our forward path, the call beckons us back. Slow-moving bass drones slither beneath the surface, a shifting foundation that holds “Tralineation” in an amorphous cocoon. […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. I first became aware of cellist Lia Kohl through her debut collaborative duo release with Macie Stewart, Pocket Full of Bees. It’s a wonderful album because Kohl and Stewart have such intense-yet-playful chemistry that bleeds into every passage. I’m guessing I’ve […]