Foxy Digitalis
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
And so it’s March. You know, my horoscope for this year keeps promising good things, BIG things. And that’s great and all, but mostly I’m just BIG EXHAUSTED. Basically, it’s the same as ever. Anyway, there’s a new Field Studies out on The Jewel Garden today featuring Lee Evans, Floating House Ensemble, Stefan Christoff, and […]
April is flying by, new tunes are blowing up my inbox, and I’m embracing that keeping up doesn’t exist and leaning into drowning. Something like that. I can’t remember if I mentioned this here, but earlier this year I started a new column over on Patreon called Dollar Bin. It’s quick write-ups of excellent albums […]
Argentine multi-instrumentalist and composer Alma Laprida’s new album, Pitch Dark and Trembling, has an almost tangible gravity to it. Tones blossom into howling, gnawing resonances that make time stand still, holding us in uncomfortable moments until we’re totally immersed in this massive soundworld. Laprida’s work has always had this tactile quality, material sonic textures that […]
“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 […]