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.
Tag: Tape Music
John Cage / Aaron Dilloway :: Rozart Mix (Hanson)
Radio and musique concrète go together like bread and butter. As a medium, radio is the perfect platform for playing tape that has been spliced, diced, smothered, covered, layered, reordered, disordered, composed, decomposed and recomposed. That’s what has happened here with a new version of a mid-sixties John Cage composition, Rozart Mix.
Celer :: Cursory Asperses (Room40)
It has very spacious music, minimal development, and is best enjoyed on a medium volume level, filling up your space without being too much of a presence.
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,..
Sontag Shogun x Lau Nau :: Valo Siroutuu (Beacon Sound)
This is a flowing audio scrapbook soundscape, a travelogue which fits in with the ambient genre, but what makes this unique is the way these song-writers have assembled this listening experience.
Fields We Found :: Expanse (Self Released)
The sounds here on Expanse respect my tonal comfort zone, sweet hissing with little savory moments, lots of interesting ideas woven throughout while preserving the peaceful even flow.
Jeremy Young :: “Trafic” (feat. Tomonari Nishikawa) — video premiere
The pieces that make up Amaro are what happens when you take a bunch of citrus and herbs and ferment them together, and then distill them. “Trafic” video premiere.
Part Timer :: Reaching Ends (Analogue Chat)
The tracks are brief but they’re also snapshots of sheer elegance and as such, their length is therefore arguably perfect from a qualitative perspective as they make you want to listen again and again.
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