Foxy Digitalis
“The Number of the Sund” finds Lea Bertucci and Olivia Block mining shifting harmonics for elegiac dissonance and ghost textures. In this excerpt from the side-long piece, stoic sonorities melt away through through howling synth tones and tape-mangled vocal hexes. Bertucci and Block slink through the unease with sharp frequencies and controlled feedback, levying a […]
Forms obscured by willowed silhouettes become immersive, pondering environments on The Mountains Pass. This is music drawn from primeval memories, ideas borne of amber glass, and natural movement patterns. Olivia Block’s way of connecting fleeting soundworlds and fragmented sonic expressions always leaves me wondering. Is any of this real? How did I end up here? Whimsical […]
Hollow rattles and unearthly clangs plunge us deep into a sonic abyss as Concepción Huerta’s “Trepidation” groans to life. Scarring oscillations churn from the depths, rising like sawblades cutting the earth into ribbons, building tension with every forward progression. High-frequency string repetitions squeal to life dropping dissonant spikes from above. Featuring additional production from Olivia […]
Marcus Fischer has a way of knowing what sonic expression is needed at a precise moment. His discography is a mountain built on this, and the focused ideas bloom, leaving solid traces wherever they go. It’s a mountain worth scaling. Fischer brings that same approach to this beautiful mix titled (if we can make it […]
Pieces of the world are falling into the abyss and finding freedom in the process. The darkness is a veil, beyond is a rising sun tickled by flames from the last scraps of a dying landscape. Olivia Block’s new album for Room 40, Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea, digs through the desolate wreckage of […]