March | 2016 | The Answer Is In The Beat

Lesley Flanigan: Hedera (Physical Editions, 2016)

March 4, 2016 at 6:12 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Lesley Flanigan: Hedera

Lesley Flanigan creates experimental music using her voice and wooden speaker feedback systems she built herself, bringing to mind the work of Jessica Rylan. This EP goes in a different direction than her previous releases, with the CD’s 20-minute title track anchored by a shuddering rhythmic vibration sourced from a broken tape deck, with Flanigan’s ethereal vocals floating on top. The rhythm seems far more considered and subtle once you zone in on it, but the vocals show much more obvious growth and development, blossoming into a choir of the same lonely, yearning voice. Hypnotic would be an understatement, and it’s not hard to be transfixed and not even notice the 20 minutes passing by. “Can Barely Feel My Feet” is much shorter and sparser, merely consisting of whispery layers of vocals before a thin wave of buzzing feedback enters the mix.

Local Music Show 3/2/16

March 3, 2016 at 9:57 am | Posted in Local Music Show | Leave a comment

Hour 1
9:01 pm Moon Pool & Dead Band (local) ~ “MEQ” ~ MEQ (new) ~ Midwich ~ 2015
9:08 pm Magas (local) ~ “Countess” ~ Heads Plus (new) ~ Midwich ~ 2015
9:16 pm Viands (local) ~ “Temporal Relics #2” ~ Temporal Relics (new) ~ Midwich ~ 2015
9:30 pm Mick Travis (semi-local) ~ “Face Disappears After Interrogation” ~ Face Disappears After Interrogation (new) ~ Midwich ~ 2015
9:38 pm Ex Machina (local) ~ “Future Vision” ~ Future Vision ~ Domain Records ~ 1993
9:45 pm Ectomorph (local) ~ “The Haunting” ~ Abstraction ~ Interdimensional Transmissions ~ 1997
9:50 pm Cybotron (local) ~ “Cosmic Raindance” ~ Enter ~ Fantasy ~ 1983
9:54 pm Super Public (local) ~ “MT2” ~ More Than A Marathon ~ Self-Released ~ 2012
Hour 2
10:04 pm Ingrid Racine (local) ~ “When It Rains” ~ Concentric Circles (new) ~ Self-Released ~ 2015
10:09 pm NOMO (local) ~ “Ghost Rock” ~ Ghost Rock ~ Ubiquity ~ 2008
10:13 pm Morsel (local) ~ “Needles (Warn Defever Remix)” ~ Wrecked And Remixed ~ Smallstone ~ 1999
10:16 pm Warn Defever’s Control Panel (local) ~ “My Emerald Side” ~ Music Inspired By Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War ~ Isonauta Records ~ 2004
10:20 pm WindStar Soul (local) ~ “LIVE IN STUDIO!” ~ Local Music Show (new) ~ WCBN ~ 2016
10:55 pm Shigeto (local) ~ “side B” ~ Full Circle ~ Ghostly International ~ 2010