Foxy Digitalis
pivot rotations is the sound of dust imagining what it’s like to be alive. Belgian musicians Pieter Dudal and Adriaan de Roover work with tape loops the way some people work with prayer beads, returning to the same fragments until they reveal something beyond themselves. Over two years of performances, they captured moments on magnetic […]
Elisabeth Klinck plays violin the way some people breathe: instinctively, necessarily, and with a kind of quiet devotion that predates language. On My Hair Is Everywhere, the debut from her trio with saxophonist Adia Vanheerentals and pianist Maya Dhondt, that devotion becomes something shared, a three-way conversation where silence carries as much weight as sound. […]
Nele De Gussem bends spacetime on The Loom of Longing, her latest album. Best known for her work with Uma Chine, she conjures mystical landscapes through vocal enchantments, delicately framed by electronic melodies and alchemical tonal patterns. Shadows occasionally seep through the seams, but The Loom of Longing tempers its darkness with flickers of romance […]
Viktor Kubal’s 1981 animated film, The Bloody Lady, is full of whimsy and horror that are mined for interest and tension. Unsurprisingly, it is fertile ground for claire rousay’s alternate score. “VIII” swims in melancholy with emotive piano melodies pockmarking a droning underscore like acid raindrops through limestone. String arrangements waver into growing dissonant charms […]
There are multiple moments on Miaux’s latest album, Never Coming Back, where I feel like I am spiraling away into the nothingness of the void. What sets it apart from other music that sends me in that direction is how warm and captivating the pieces are, even to the point of feeling comforting. It doesn’t […]
Antwerp-based composer Miaux’s new album, Never Coming Back, creates a sense of distance from a place that once held us back. Synth arrangements pull inward before spiraling into the distant skies. “In the closing track ‘I have no desire for the close company of other people,’ hope and redemption seem to guide towards another world,” Miaux explains. Asymmetric […]
From the opening, frenetic bombast of “Do You Spiral Down Often?” to the downtrodden dream zones of “Sinking,” Youniss sends out a series of visceral sonic missives on his new album, White Space. Every time I’ve listened to this album, it’s stayed with me for hours after the last grinding guitar notes fade away. It’s emotionally […]
Belgian musician and visual artist, Youniss peels back the layers to reveal a visceral, vulnerable core on his forthcoming album, White Space. The album explores how he’s dealt with personal panic attacks that he’s had since the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, an emotional confrontation that adds sharp edges to his sound. Hollow organ arrangements […]
No matter where our attention is turned, as soon as Jerusalem In My Heart’s Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s buzuq rings out in the opening moments of “To Feed The Gentry,” our focus is caught. Moumneh joins the trio of Stef Heeren, Kwinten Mordijc, and Saif Al-Qaissy for this sonic exorcism. The embers of the buzuq improvisations […]