Foxy Digitalis
In the opening moments of “and the ashes birthed them into air and their bodies hurtled towards the fire of the sun,” it’s as though some kind of creature, constrained for millennia, is finally breaking free. Hissing feedback and hollow drones keep pushing back the simmering rhythms, but eventually, the restraints break and it takes […]
Front page photo by Hampus Andersson The opening moments of Vilhelm Bromander’s “Blommor och bröd” are just a whisper of the dawn that awaits. Katt Hernandez traces elegiac patterns on her violin, with piano accents from Alex Zethson flickering beneath like glimmers of sunlight dancing on water. Percussive washes emerge with trailing woodwinds before a […]
Magic miniatures unfold on Susana Santos Silva’s “All the Birds.” A combination of soft, lilting drones underpins the frenetic, technical sophistication of Santos Silva’s trumpet playing. Disparate atmospheres swirl in separate fields before intertwining through her unique approach, with the addition of calming birdsong, to create a unique, exotic sonic palette. The tranquility woven into […]
On the latest single from AUTORHYTHM, multifaceted rhythms and hypnotic melodies beam in from another plane. Building slowly, the eccentric angled repetitions become a dizzying array of lucid tones. Synths buzz and whirr into oblivion states. Transfixed by a distant glow, the timbral shapes are lithe, polyrhythmic spellcasters intent on hypnotizing anyone within earshot. It’s […]
The spectral qualities of Linnéa Talp’s “Going Nowhere” are heightened in Jordana Loeb’s hypnotic video with fantastic dance and choreography by Lisen Ellard. Bodies move in silhouette, shrouded by abstracted lightforms that bring buried, ghostly harmonies to the fore. Talp’s music exists in the liminal stretches between worlds, moving through the sonic morass with purpose […]
Physical presence becomes an aural tide on Linnéa Talp’s Arch of Motion. The Swedish artist finds the stoic presence of in-between spaces and casts them into golden-hued drones. Using pipe organ as the primary instrument in these compositions, the music becomes the exhaled breath of someone finding their footing within the liminal glow. Spread throughout Arch of […]