Foxy Digitalis
Eventual is the sound that remains. Long after the lights go out, after the din of a crowded room is nothing but a blurred memory, faint resonance lingers. Richard Chartier traces the emotive grace living in sonic remnants, revealing subtle intensities in what others might dismiss as emptiness. In his solo work, the background becomes […]
Stinging perceptions are blurred into decayed concrete corridors, and cracked pastel paint falls to the ground in small pieces. The latest from Pinkcourtesyphone is a fragmentary dreamscape baked into a grayscale void. Subatomic rumbles become moving foundations, eluding the rising layers of desolate drones. Everything here is a memory we’re trying to forget, but the […]
“Everything’s pink in this villa, so it’s called the pink villa,” explains Mrs. Goforth, the dying protagonist of Tennessee Williams’ play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. The color pink has been a conceptual thread and namesake of Richard Chartier’s Pinkcourtesyphone project, dialing up its tenth year with All Intensive Purposes, seven tracks released on Lawrence […]
I’m not sure much needs to be said here, but when Pinkcourtesyphone delivers a mix subtitled “gelatinous suspension of beliefs,” there’s only one way this is going. Hit play, fall down jagged chasms and get stuck in a vat of enchanted ooze where dance parties wobble enthusiastically and scientific discovery is etched in puddles of […]