Peripherally, some kind of percussion, followed in the next facit by the jagged outline of a sax player, and finally, filling out, the makings of some ballroom pianist. But before anything inside this rock could make sense, it was gently swept off the table, into…
Reify, a three track EP of rather forward-thinking textural work, can be found at bandcamp.
“In The City of The Dead”, a serialized story/album by Digits.
Chapter 9: Stasis
“The fire beginning to die low, J sits with a small group of unaffiliated people in the middle of the disused intersection. Tapping on the Casiotone he recently found, he sings a song about their weariness, a hymn to the lost lives they used to lead. A secure existence, often boring, rarely catastrophic. They are all moved by the simple chords and wistful melody.
They do not speak of his relationship with the Mona Lisas. Perhaps some of them judge J for his collaboration with their oppressors. Perhaps others understand his actions, even sympathize with his weakness. But J’s guilt consumes him. He sees only accusation in their eyes.”
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The previous eight installments of Alt Altman’s synth-pop saga, each having unfolded over a different site, can be entered through its Table of Contents. The project follows J, a journalist and former musician stranded in a government quarantined, gang-run, zombie-infested city. And the warm, contemplative “Stasis” finds him in a rare and fleeting respite from the chaos, calm but not without concern, looking up to the ash-filled sky for any place better than this. Whether that lies ahead…we’ll have to wait and see.
Bent lights and lost melodies, the message is mixed and the notion of “You and I”, goes round and round:
Unravel | U n I
Unravel | I Used To Think
Unravel | Youth
Last time we saw Unravel, the shape-shifting time traveler from Budapest was introducing modern R&B to the 15th century. This time around, The Garden of Earthly Delights is more like a carnival of conflicting sound systems—playing from one side of the ride above is Usher, and from the other, “Uncle Albert”, and from our seat, it’s all strangely working.
An EP titled ~ is available at bandcamp.
An eternal utopia called, but his path was not to be that simple, and his time there, in her Court…in the most brilliant of blues, had to come to its end.
TTAATTOO | In The Court of Sea Goddess Calypso
TTAATTOO | The Happy Prince
The soundcloud of Chile-based artist Francisco Casas Errazuriz is an index of experiments, updated just about every day. This guy is on an odyssey of his own, for ‘peace & light’, and we’re not really sure what to make of most of it, but wading through the ‘sacred ambient, piano etudes, heritage rhythm, flamenco acid funk’, etc, has proven pretty fascinating.
Lucy always had a way of being there—in the field, in the sky—an accent, a constant.
Here she’s just beyond the commotion, trailing that voice by a half-second. “Lucy” marks the start to Moment’s Good, a deep meadow of electronic/organic flair from Sheffield, UK. The 6-track EP is available now through Sunday Records.
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