63 posts tagged “music”
a little gem of a release that's been on the back burner for a while, finally written and posted on Connexion Bizarre.
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wrapped this one up right before the website update this week on Connexion Bizarre. some good drone work, a recommended start if you're interested in getting into the genre.
Thomas Watkiss - Ancestor - Phase 1: Silence
What is exceptional about "Silence" is its undeniable delicacy of
movement. As with many of its peers, this is music of meditation and
patience, funereal reverb and thick layers of emptiness. Its power lies
in the understated and tentative, the barely audible oscillations,
passionate organic textures and rumbling arrays.
so not only do i deliver two reviews to read this week at Connexion Bizarre, but also must encourage you to enter the giveaway for the new Flint Glass album. the site is offering five free copies, courtesy of the record labels. find details on the main page to enter. it's a great release (just read the review to be assured), and maybe you'll be picked to win!
Flint Glass - Circumsounds
Flint Glass (Gwenn Trémorin), having built a name in post-industrial
dark electronics through various releases, remixes and side projects
(notably Tzolk'in), not to mention tireless creativity and production
prowess, delivers a natural winner with "Circumsounds."
With a mixture of foreboding experimental electronics and carefully modulated, spacious ambiences, Freeze Etch strives to capture a hard sci-fi theme (think of the album title, not to mention tracks like "Soarover" and "Freight Memory"), yet somehow misses its grasp at galactic brilliance.
pumping them out as fast as we can... two new reviews to read this week on Connexion Bizarre. further incentive: one of these albums was given a "10" by this author...
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This stuff simply defines cinematic. Its orchestral nuances and muffled piano, spectral voices and effective interlude transitions, among other elements, serve to elucidate this formative strategy. As the second release for young label Spectraliquid (based in Athens, Greece), "Blackfilm" reflects a promising musical direction and, more significantly, astute artist selectivity.
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appears this week on Connexion Bizarre.
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although i probably don't need to call this to your attention, the Weekly Six has been shelved, indefinitely. this has been the case since around the beginning of the year, before traveling in India for two months and moving to San Francisco. other areas of life have demanded far too much attention as of late (see above), and such frivolities must unfortunately face the knife as a result.
keep watching this space for new music reviews and who knows what else...
check out the latest update this week at Connexion Bizarre...
"Phado" is wholly Iberian in atmosphere, sensual and melodic with more than a tinge of nostalgic melancholy, evoking an ambience at once tangy and honey-dipped. These are the songs to compliment sentimental and lonely moods, when distance or time renders someone held dear intangible and missed.
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this was an excellent album to review, and i suggest reading more about it and other releases this week over at Connexion Bizarre.
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only a week after returning from our trip and already there's too much on my plate. this review was mostly complete two months ago, but i finally got it polished and posted this week at Connexion Bizarre. lots of other reviews to read over there besides mine, you know...
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happy new year! the Connexion Bizarre website has made its first foray into 2008. enjoy several new reviews on this week's update, including the following:
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