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“Atavistic Rites” is thick and full of serrated edges. Christoff and Martineau build heavy sonic layer after heavy sonic layer, creating snarling, breathing drones that encase us within something solid, something immovable. Their music is sharp and textural. It grabs us and refuses to relent. Guillaume Vallée’s video expands the shape of this sound with […]
It may still be 100 degrees outside, but in my mind, summer is officially over. Mainly because my kid started back at school yesterday (entering middle school – oof!), so I have to try and transition out of summer-camp-dad-mode. How am I going to do that? No clue, but hopefully I’ll start feeling less fried. […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Stefan Christoff! We talk a lot about his project, Earth Sounds Now and their album “Convergence,” plus the activist work he’s doing around Palestinians and Gaza before getting into a lot of great tunes. We chat about Don Cherry’s all-time status, meeting Lhasa, hip-hop lyrics, Hector […]
Aidan Girt’s remix of Rêves sonores’s “Svalbard” doesn’t just reframe the original, it deepens its pulse. His percussion enters like weather, slow-building but precise, shaping a quiet momentum that lingers just beneath the surface. The drums don’t demand attention so much as reshape time itself, making space for glacial textures to swell and recede. Playful, […]
I previously wrote about Stefan Christoff’s fantastic Air, that it sparks “our imaginations beyond the infinite refractions of our limited perception,” and in the contemplative explorations of “A River Below The Skyscraper,” it is staring us in the face. Samer Najari’s video heightens this feeling with its archival Super 8 footage, leaving us flitting between two diverging […]
Stefan Christoff has released or been part of so many wonderful releases in 2023, and in his second mix for Foxy Digitalis this year, he does not disappoint. Off the back of a stellar collaboration with Adriana Camacho, Christoff shares selections from new and recent works out of Mexico City. The breadth of the music is incredible. […]
It’s Bandcamp Friday so you know what that means? A disaster of an inbox, but a wonderful opportunity to support artists while only giving a cut to one monster corporation instead of two. Wahey! But seriously, support artists. Everyday. Today’s pick is a beautiful new piano record from Stefan Christoff. Plus, I can’t get past […]
This mix is a celebration of our collaboration on the album AIR. Susanna graciously agreed to work on some artwork for the cover and shared some beautiful watercolor paintings. I connected with Susanna through mutual artist friends surrounding the process of organizing the Musicians For Palestine open letter. Susanna made the drawings for both incarnations […]
It’s Wednesday, which means Foxy Digitalis Daily is getting weird over on Patreon (sign up!), and I’ve got a smattering of musical alchemy for everyone to dig through. Amber Meulenijzer Saab Fanfare (Edições CN) A unique combination of joyous reverie and lilting wistfulness throughout Saab Fanfare has stuck with me. Composed in collaboration with local fanfare ensembles in a […]