Experimental Electronic Music
A new single from The Tear Garden is like a signal from beyond—dark, dreamy, and full of promise. With Astral Elevator arriving October 24th on Artoffact Records, cEvin Key and Edward Kaspel prove they haven’t lost their edge. This track’s pulsing bass, eerie synths, and vivid lyrics capture the spirit of their early work while hinting at something new—and it’s got me ready for the full trip.
Through white noise, thorough in its separation and diffraction of constituent tones, before reprocessing them and sending them back out into an abyss of stars as if these horns are calling to some alien entity or god far beyond the reaches of our usual means of communication.
Such an exploration might seem at first more fitted to harsh noise or the post-industrial genres, but the sounds here are lush and radiant, calming, relaxed. There is the pungent fragrance of death present, but it isn’t cloying, but something familiar and comforting.
By operating outside of the playlist protocol, Big Blood have once again given us something that goes beyond the test of temporary style. This is music for deep listening in the deep time of Deep Maine, and it shall abide.
It’s hard to be cranky when listening to the soothing sounds presented by Michael Grigoni and Pan•American in their first collaboration, New World, Lonely Ride, a journey into the majestic physical landscape of America as well as its grim psychic underside.
My perspective on metallic matters was recently alchemized once again with some new prima materia from Matmos, and their song “The Rust Belt” released with clanging banger of a video by Jack Colbert ahead of the June 20th release of their newest album Metallic Life Review and summer tour.
Coupled with intense rhythmic hooks and jaunty infectious melancholy lyrics, these short sweet pieces make me feel joyful and full of hope, even as the lyrics are moody and depressing.
With each foray into the studio together, Jestram and Lippok seem to unite in that space where the third mind exists. Adding to these explorations […]
Fans of free improvisation, intuitive music, and the European tradition of avant art music will find much to enjoy on this endlessly twisting abstract headscratcher. It is like a puzzle that can only be solved when I stop trying.
Contrary Motion is an album for those who wish to embark on a journey of neurodivergence from the realm of traditional thought and soundwaves so as to access the remedies that will give them relief from the complexity of modern life. This is live audio that has been refracted through the studio by means of frequency hopping between Australia, Ireland and England.
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