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I love it when an artist throws a curveball – especially when the visual presentation of the album even further throws us off the scent. Well played, Euglossine. “Strawberries in Rain” is a delight. Plus, Bill Orcutt cannot be stopped. Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: Euglossine “Strawberries in […]
Another week of blazing temperatures has given way to torrential rain, flooding, and tropical humidity. Climate change is going well. In better news, Carl Antonowicz (Open Casket Sound System, the real star of Foxy Digitalis’s Illustrated Reviews, etc.) and I finally played some music together after talking about it for most of the year. More on that […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon. With summer starting to show its earliest signs here in Tulsa, my season connection with Tristan Whitehill’s work as Euglossine always gets deeper. Based in Gainesville, Florida, Euglossine is a bizarre and beguiling mirror of the environment where Whitehill composes […]
I can still remember listening to Tristan Whitehill’s earliest Euglossine experiments on the inimitable Housecraft label and being immediately drawn to his unique sound design and how the smallest details came together to create woozy tropical worlds. In the intervening decade, Whitehill’s palette has grown and his approach augmented, but the kaleidoscopic vision that always […]
To kick off the week before Halloween, one of our favorite new artists, Taranoya, gets in with a mix of melancholic ghostly vibes. It’s a rollercoaster that’ll rip hearts out on the one hand and go positively astral on the other. I highly recommend listening while reading the Foxy Digitalis interview with her for the […]
Though she was born and raised in Iran, Taranoya’s music combines a wide array of surprising and disparate ideas to create something singular and captivating. The aural landscapes she builds are like dreams of other worlds, places where anything seems possible. Deep listening reveals trenchant emotions and a thirst for uncovering hard truths through sonic […]
Emotional growth is slow and sometimes the process seems to move in reverse. There’s no real endpoint, either, but each forward movement is like another notch in the celestial plane and it holds a special kind of viscous magic. Taranoya captures this spirit beautifully on her debut album, Becoming, lacing minimal synth work around her towering, […]
Marcel Sletten first came onto my radar because of his stellar label, Primordial Void. He’s released countless memorable albums, including his own work. Last week he released his debut full-length, Vicious Kisses, on the excellent sound as language label and it’s been a regular accompaniment to my early morning. Described as “Psychedelic folk music for […]
New episode, finally! Lots of great tunes lately, so this is only a small taste. Arushi Jain “Richer Than Blood” (Leaving)(behind) Ayumi Ishito & The Spacemen “Night Chant” (577 Records)d’Eon “Poplar” (Hausu Mountain)Kasja Lindgren “Momentary Harmony” (Recital Program)New Chance “Fallen” (We Are Time)Joe McPhee, Michael Marcus, Jay Rosen, Warren Smith “Chatreuse Tulips” (Mahakala Music)(behind) Isnaj […]