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On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s zakè! For expansive ambient music, he and his label Past Inside the Present have become my go-to. He just released his second collaborative album with marine eyes, “Still Beauty,” and celebrated the 20th anniversry of his first solo album. There’s so much to take about! Then […]
Want to know how this week started for me? I was out on my usual daily walk and had a hawk attack the top of my head. I’m fine. The hawk is fine. But holy shit was it wild. I didn’t hear it at all (had headphones on), but just felt something heavy hit my head, and turned in circles, looked around, and saw it flying […]
It’s Bandcamp Friday week so if you’re looking for some weird gems for your haul, look no further (actually, scratch that – look a lot further. There’s great stuff hidden everywhere if you just take a little time). As ever, The Jewel Garden has something new – this time the latest from my Charlatan project, an album called Memory Archive with […]
I really connected with this live performance from zakè, Marc Ertel, James Bernard, and From Overseas, so I talked about it for quite a while. Bandcamp Friday tomorrow! Wednesday episodes are exclusively on Patreon. Sign up now! Album of the Day: zakè, Marc Ertel, James Bernard, & From Overseas “Live at the Gothic Chapel” Additional Links: […]
I love this description of Vancouver’s Kuma from his last record, You Cannot Cheat the Muse: “Bristol-born and Vancouver-based, Kuma has been destroying old worlds and building new ones for over two decades.” It feels like an old world at a new dawn on that album, communicated via tactile synthscapes and stretched wistful melodies. Kuma has a […]
Foxy Digitalis depends on our awesome readers to keep things rolling. Pledge your support today via our Patreon or subscribe to The Jewel Garden. Over the last decade, it’s difficult to overstate Zakè’s (aka Zach Frizzell) impact on ambient and drone music. Whether it’s his solo work, collaborations, or the mountain of beautiful releases on Past Inside the Present, there’s […]
Allow me to preface that I am not one to do ‘favorite’ or ‘end of year’ best of’ lists, mainly because my list would be never-ending, and I don’t like ranking things, especially when it comes to music, an artist’s most personal and vulnerable representation of their self. What I have prepared is a set […]
Coming off his exquisite collaborative album with zakè, beliefsystems, Isaac Helsen offers up a new, expansive landscape for listeners to explore with Burning House. Built on analog synths and field recordings, Burning House was conceived back in 2017 as Helsen began to explore connections between music and photography. The result is an album full of vivid aural imagery. “Burning […]
When I first heard marine eyes this spring, I connected with the vibrant warmth that permeates her recordings. Her music opens up beautiful sonorous worlds where listeners can find respite, an aural cocoon drifting in space as the soothing tones wash through the air. On her debut, idyll, she created a beautiful aquatic ambient world […]