It was the 1960’s that brought electronic music to the masses. Suddenly anyone could have a listen – add to that, its prevalence in cinema, and this type of music actually started to attract fans. However, it was in the paper, “A Sketch of a new Esthetic of Music” written by Ferruccio Busoni in 1907 that […]
Category Archives: Music Reviews
Tasogare: Twilight. The light between day and night. Music as pure beauty.
posted by lisathatcher
I was lucky enough to attend a Keith Fullerton Whitman concert earlier this year (let’s just say I’m a HUGE fan) and while I was there I picked up a stack of discs at the door as I am want to do at these sorts of thing. One of the amazing discs I happened to […]
Peter Blamey – Forage: the sound of Kafkas Burrow.
posted by lisathatcher
The short blurb on the back of the beautiful Avant Whatever disc by Peter Blamey, Forage has this to say: On these recordings, eight salvaged computer motherboards and tangled bunches of exposed copper wire form a feedback network with the aid of some small amplifiers Moving the wire by hand makes and/or breaks any number of possible circuits, which produces and /or changes the sounds heard […]
Toc Sine – Drawings: Music defining the act of creation.
posted by lisathatcher
Despite what we think, the hurly-burly swirl that is our lives today is a choice. We talk about and act as though we are overwhelmed as life and the world come crashing in on us, but the truth is, we can turn off the internet, we can turn off our phone, we can pick up a book […]
Talibam! – music as a new species.
posted by lisathatcher
Ever feel like your music just doesn’t fuck with you enough? Ever get the feeling you want your mind placed in a blender and the high button pressed? Well, I’ve totally got the goods for you. According to their bandcamp page, The “Launch Pad” series was created by Talibam! to explore new sound relationships in […]
Skeleton$ – music love from New York City
posted by lisathatcher
It’s a music day today. I”ve got some reviews to sort and without a doubt the best part of that job is heading into a bands background and doing some research. Tracing a musical path to see how influences affect sound. Today’s meanderings have brought me back to Skeleton$ and I realised I haven’t ever […]
Felt – Maxine Funke and the lightness of the subterranean touch.
posted by lisathatcher
I wanted to add my two cents the hype swelling around Maxine Funke’s new album Felt. This is a laid back folksy LP from the woman who fronted The Snares and produced the beautiful album Lace in 2008. It’s a New Zealand production (from a New Zealand chickie) and is out through Epic Sweep Records. I’m not […]
Wire’s 100 Records that set the world on fire while no one was listening. 96 – 100
posted by lisathatcher
God I love these Wire posts. I’ve been writing up a petit little storm in this corner of the globe for the last couple of weeks and the blog and all its accoutrements have been suffering. I don’t listen to music when I write literature – too much head noise to capture – so its […]
Michael Pisaro/Taku Sugimoto – 2 seconds / b minor / wave
posted by lisathatcher
The explorations in 2 seconds / b minor / wave by Miachel Pisaro and Taku Sugimoto are mini journeys into the concepts “pulse” “pitch” and “wave” and what each of these might mean to the other and to the receptive audience – the ideal audience – in the final accumulation of sounds presented. By making […]
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