With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week: Big Audio Dynamite, Paul St. Hilaire, Sparkle Division, and David Sylvian.
Reviews
Hexalyne :: Exivvaves (Point Source Electronic Arts)
With characteristic rhythmic splutters reminiscent of alien transmissions, Exivvaves skillfully entwines hundreds of layers, blips, bleeps, and crunchy melodic strands.
Heogen :: Inantiphsea (Touched Music)
There is wonderful fusion is styles and influences under the Heogen moniker, fusing the complex and surreal composition style of exm (aka Jeroen Bax) with the melodic and rhythmical style.
Low End Resorts :: Dungeons of Miami (Megastructure)
Deep layers of abstract electronics are present in each of the nine compositions, which are layered over a variety of sculpted noises and textured rhythms.
Igor Yalivec :: Etudes (Whited Sepulchre)
Offering aural sentient textures and dreamily electroacoustic and minimal sequences recommended for fans of quintessential works by Helios, Goldmund, Hammock, Winged Victory for the Sullen, and Pausal.
Sergio Mariani :: Cassini (EQ)
This is the music of deep space, slow distant presences are revealed, with interesting textures and gigantic open areas where planets are small circles.
bvdub | Brock Van Wey :: Illusions In Indifference (Self Released)
The audio arts are a way of interpreting as well as creating many mysteries, beauty permits more exposure, honest expression can include healing and evoking difficult depths.
shedir :: Before the Last Light is Blown (n5MD)
We find ourselves immersed in full-bodied expanses of floating drones and the intricate use of field recordings, for a slow and pleasant listening, exposed to very skillful sound design techniques.