Subtle Bodies delivers tape music and looped technics at the finest in terms of emotional transportation and spiritual ravishment. The result is tenderly soothing and the defective almost glitch-esque nature of the fragmented piano sequences add an atmosphere of warmth melancholia and sorrowing nostalgia.
Tag: Tape
Macrogramma :: Magnetic Series (Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series)
For Macrogramma, the medium evidently brings with it, more than nostalgia’s facile allure, in contrast to digital’s infinite possibility, an intransigence forcing definitive choices.
Onepointwo :: Voyages Extraordinaires (Human Geography)
These are works of musique concrète recalling the radiophonic atmospheres in vogue in the fifties and sixties and now seeing a sound resurgence as the medium of tape is revitalized and resurrected for composing.
WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa #39 — Season finale
In their final instalment of the season, WE FORFEIT dug deep into their collections to pluck out some old favorites, recent acquisitions and all-round top tracks.
Daou :: Reverie (Rohs!)
Tape enthusiast from an early age, fiddler and twiddler with loops, synths and field recordings alongside his trusted guitar and effect pedals,..
Richard Devine :: Algoraves, IDM, and COVID-19
An interview with Richard Devine by Wilder Gonzales Agreda from April 2020. Reprinted with permission (Vanguardia Peruana). Complex rhythms, ultrasonic, and brainy psychedelia Richard Devineis […]
Fields We Found :: Distance (Seil)
The album flows in a crisp loop influenced and foggy slow motion ritual to repeat, for me it slows things down in an interesting way.