France Jobin & Fabio Perletta: Mirror Neurons (Dragon’s Eye, 2015)

August 4, 2015 at 8:52 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

France Jobin & Fabio Perletta: Mirror Neurons

France Jobin & Fabio Perletta: Mirror Neurons

I recently reviewed a Fabio Perletta album which was absolutely lovely, the type of hypnotic glitchy ambient that always immediately captures my attention and makes me happy. This album is a bit different than that. It’s a bit closer to the realm of “lowercase listening”. The first track, “Parallel”, needs to be turned up way loud before you can hear anything, and even then it’s just a faint drone which slightly blossoms a bit more during the second half of its 14 minute duration. “Reflection” is a little more immediate (not really the right word), starting out with a luminescent drone and then easing in some sneaky bass. Again, it helps if you turn this one all the way up, it’s hard to notice the subtleties if it’s too quiet. For a while it has a sharp yet not too piercing sine wave tone, then it fades into lovely organ drone, before introducing more tones that will drive your dog crazy. “Mimesis” has similar ringing tones, but they shift and glitch a bit, before landing at a more drifting (and slightly barren, desolate) passage. Eventually it develops and gets richer and deeper, before the ringing sine waves take over. I’m not sure if this release counts as “deep listening” or “lowercase listening” or maybe a combination or maybe neither of those actually exist and it’s whatever you make of it. Regardless, it is an immersive experience.

Anthony Donovan & John 3:16: Of The Hex And Its Likenesses (Flood Records, 2015)

August 2, 2015 at 7:32 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Anthony Donovan & John 3:16: Of The Hex & Its Likenesses

Anthony Donovan & John 3:16: Of The Hex & Its Likenesses

A bit less “post-rock” than I remember the previous John 3:16 album sounding like, this one has vaguely spaghetti western-sounding guitars, which sometimes erupt into harsh feedback, as well as shamanic drumming and atmospheres, creepy whispered vocals, and clicking/sparkling electronic tones. It is nebulous and orbital. It meanders, but then it is grounded and focused. It resists order and format and clears its own path. It is swampy and down-and-out, yet it’s viewing the cosmos from a spiraling asteroid twisting its way throughout the solar system.

OverScan: Conscious tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2015)

August 2, 2015 at 6:48 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

OverScan: Conscious tape

OverScan: Conscious tape

This one’s sort of like Tim Hecker without all the prestige and hype and monolithic dark-room performances. Well, at least the distortion on the first track brings up the easy comparison to Tim Hecker. I don’t want to say “low-budget” or “poor man’s” because that devalues this. But basically there’s plenty of music out there that isn’t getting all the Pitchfork hype and is even available for free download that is still noisy and spacey and droney and fantastic. This one gets more stargazing and sweeping and drifting as it goes on. Really bright, expressive cosmic synth melodies and sometimes crickets (as on “Perspective”). “Terrorvision” flows a little bit into dark ambient territory, but not enough that it can’t still be considered new age (maybe). “The Pitch” is sort of similar, it’s brighter-sounding but there’s still some weird voices buried underneath. In general, a nice starry wash of sound that hugs you like a fuzzy blanket.

Show #301 – 8/1/15

August 1, 2015 at 12:23 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

mic break music = Maxwell Gualtieri: For Los Angeles
3:00 AM Land of the Loops ~ My Head (Leaks) ~ Bundle of Joy ~ Up
3:04 AM /f ~ 0ks09 ga0dvj9 (fjvnf) fi902 +94~ovis.v+@)3 =V ~ pq:c ~ Bandcamp
3:13 AM Fabio Perletta ~ Winter, Awakening ~ Unseed ~ Arboretum
3:21 AM Kevin Greenspon ~ Lexical Trap ~ To Leave A Mark ~ Bridgetown Records
3:29 AM Dead Hands On A Piano ~ Loony Cops ~ Walking Around ~ Placenta Recordings
3:33 AM Astronauta Pinguim ~ The Garden of Earthly Delights ~ Zeitgeist/Propaganda ~ Pine Apple Music
3:37 AM Ben Zimmerman ~ The Space Jack Hummer ~ The Baltika Years ~ Software
3:42 AM Cylob ~ Granular Psychosis (Ect Mix) ~ Inflatable Hope ~ Power Vacuum
3:45 AM Venetian Snares ~ Red Orange 2 ~ Your Face ~ Planet Mu
3:49 AM Assembler ~ Virtual Viking Tears ~ Quantum Paths of Desire ~ Infinite Waves
3:55 AM Floex ~ Saturnin Fire and the Restless Ocean (Hidden Orchestra Remix) ~ Reorchestrations ~ Denovali
4:01 AM RP Boo ~ Freezaburn ~ Fingers, Bank Pads & Shoe Prints ~ Planet Mu
4:04 AM Corduroi ~ Atlantek ~ Oceanarium ~ Raw Paw
4:07 AM Maduro ~ Vapor Guns ~ Call to Arms ~ Component
4:12 AM Adoption ~ side B ~ Nineteen Ninety ~ Skrot Up
4:15 AM Bamboo Stilts ~ Dark ~ Beneath the Bark ~ Eilean Records
4:20 AM Gavin Gamboa ~ Absolute Reality ~ Dōgen’s Garden On The Surface Of Mars ~ Bandcamp
4:23 AM Twigs & Yarn ~ In the Valley ~ Still Forms Drift ~ Eilean Records
4:32 AM Mario Diaz de León ~ Luciform ~ The Soul is the Arena ~ Denovali
4:45 AM Anthony Donovan & John 3:16 ~ Orphite and Orphan ~ Of the Hex and Its Likenesses ~ Flood Records
4:53 AM Neil On Impression ~ Perde Pezzi Di Sé ~ L’Oceano Delle Onde Che Restano Onde Per Sempre ~ Denovali
5:00 AM Fox Millions Duo ~ Telegy / Time Lapse ~ Lost Time ~ Thrill Jockey
5:20 AM Ebauche ~ Ashore ~ Adrift ~ Invisible Agent
5:32 AM OverScan ~ Conscious ~ Conscious ~ Constellation Tatsu
5:38 AM Sarah Davachi ~ Olsun ~ Qualities of Bodies Permanent ~ Constellation Tatsu
5:46 AM EH46 ~ Monument ~ A God With Horns ~ Bridgetown Records
5:54 AM Pass Into Silence ~ Iceblink ~ Pop Ambient 2006 ~ Kompakt

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