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mattie barbier has spent years interrogating the spaces where sound and structure meet. Their work reveals what can be found beyond the reach of conventional playing. Two recent recordings, the solo work Is This The Land I Wish Death To Find Me and RAGE Thormbones’ (their duo with Weston Olencki) tilth soil, capture different aspects […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Weston Olencki! Over the last few years, Weston’s become one of my favorite musicians around, and their latest album, “Broadsides,” only cements that further. We get into the record’s interesting backstory and some specific moments before diving into the romance in Radigue’s work, Rahman Mammadli’s shredding, […]
It’s Valentine’s Day – woo! If you listened to last week’s Foxy Digitalis Podcast, you know that Nina Dante converted me, so I’m celebrating today in a multitude of ways, most of which don’t apply to anyone reading this. Ha! Let’s start with the thing related to Nina. So, we’ve been working on some music together for the […]
Ancient Child is also available on YouTube. More info on the music played HERE. Tracklist:Starbird – Walrus HuntSecond Family – Dirty River (Foxhole/Console)Ben Nash – MagnetophoneTongue Depressor & Weston Olencki – Tapping SeasonEnhet For Fri Musik – Variationer Av En Langtan Till GudRalph Towner – VisitationLe Diable Degoutant – La Fontaine NoirJeanette Ogden – In The WaterMatt […]
I am excited to welcome the Ancient Child show to Foxy Digitalis. I’ve enjoyed their mixes tremendously in recent months, and the sonic spaces they explore fit right into the site’s building blocks. New shows will come through every other Wednesday. Their mixes are also available to stream via YouTube HERE. Tracklist:Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illness […]
Foxy Digitalis has been back for just over two years now, and I find it difficult to get my head around it. Throughout that period, though, the core idea and drive have remained the same, even if the pieces and structures have shifted somewhat. I’m excited the site launched a handful of new columns and […]
The path between the past and future is rarely a straight line. Weston Olencki’s Old Time Music is a dissection, time capsule, and crystal ball all wrapped into one. Taking familiar sounds and channeling them through matrices that are time-traveling mechanisms from a distant future, but imbued with a spirit from faded history, Olencki causes us to […]
UNIONBLOCK, the duo of Weston Olencki and Jack Langdon, comfortably situate themselves within a vortex of dichotomies on their debut. Thetford, named after the town in Vermont where the duo recorded, mixes Olencki’s sharp, discordant prepared banjo odysseys with Langdon’s somewhat more restrained organ workouts. Together the disparate palettes – one grating and jarring, the other […]
Like Jeff Tobias’s fantastic Recurring Dream, this mix goes into all sorts of different zones. It never feels disconnected or random, always held together by a flowing thread. Beyond that, the way Tobias pieces the tracks together and the different sonic elements of each track, it’s reminiscent of Recurring Dream, or at least carries that same spirit […]