Foxy Digitalis
Fluid dreams take on tactile timbres on Hand to Earth’s gorgeous “Mokuy.” The quintet of Daniel Wilfred, David Wilfred, Aviva Endean, Sunny Kim, and Peter Knight sculpt vibrations from the ether into gently soaring soundscapes, riding woodwind waves beyond the horizon, buoying spiraling, utterly captivating vocal melodies. “Mokuy” pulls dancing patterns from the air and […]
Panghalina is the trio of Maria Moles, Bonnie Stewart, and Helen Svoboda, and on “Glass Lake,” immateriality finds solidity. Svoboda and Stewart’s swirling vocal waves swim around one another, leading us down an aqueous, amorphous pathway lined in glowing specters. A wash of synth textures rises through the undercurrents, their shapes moving in slow motion […]
An echo grows in the distance, between sharp piano shards, shifting synth timbres, and dampened vocal patterns. Natalie Beridze’s music always creates visceral connections, and while the cadence of “Who Dwells In Possibility” is obscured by a fogged lens, it still maps the endless sonic expanses that are never quite contained. Lilting phrasings move from […]
On this episode of the Foxy Digitalis Podcast, I dig into what this new show is and what listeners can (or can’t) expect going forward. October 6, 2023 – The Foxy Digitalis Podcast | RSS.com Album of the Week: Darius Jones “fLuXkit Vancouver (i̶t̶s̶ suite but sacred)” THIS WEEK’S LINKS: Purelink “Signs” (Peak Oil) Lemon […]
Lost in a quiet downpour, JWPaton’s “Aunty” moves through countless spaces like a stealth razor, leaving small sonic traces while collecting remnants of echoes along the way. Landscapes sound in the margins of “Aunty,” culled forms shaped by technological tools, as though these expressions are lost reverberations from a different time. Melodic loops flicker, moving […]
Borrowing its title (translated as ‘No Attachment To Dust’) from a Zen story, Fabio Perletta concocts an immersive sound world of earthy textures and resonant memories. Metallic scrapes morph into haunted echoes that keep watch for sharp timbres to emerge before dissolving into a slow-moving melancholic sea. Piano notes hang in the balance, ghosts in […]
Non-stop. Unexpected. A collaboration between Aussie great Eugene Carchesio and UK drummer extraordinaire Adam Betts wasn’t on my 2023 Bingo card, but “M” shows that it’s a stellar match. Carchesio’s minimalist, hypnotic aural patterns are pulled into subterranean orbit by Betts’ frenetic rhythms. There’s a relentlessness, as though every bar and sonic texture is being […]
Sound moves in from all directions in the opening moments of “UFO Forest,” the latest from the great Beatriz Ferreyra. We find swirling discord before an unearthly calm creeps through. Ferreyra sculpts alien soundworlds from unknown sources, spinning textured warbles and endless echoes into lively sonic landscapes. Her creations encourage investigation and close attention as […]
Hyunhye Seo’s new solo album, Eel, is visceral and somewhat disturbing, but there’s a satisfying timbre that saturates every movement. Dark motifs scatter when any stray beam of sunlight focuses in, pouring water over decaying, angular frameworks. Her part in Xiu Xiu always made such a strong impression, so I was thrilled when she began making […]