RNGMNN & Karina Dorin * Sova Stroj
RNGMNN & Karina Dorin create an insomniac’s soundtrack *** Sova Stroj brings out the beast in a pipe organ.
Tag: voice
David Toop/Lawrence English * Cruel Diagonals
Hallucinatory landscapes created by Lawrence English and David Toop, and chopped up, warped voice sample compositions by Cruel Diagonals.
Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw – Sunrise
The COVID-19 lockdown obviously triggered a lot of online collaborations – which were often also thematically related to the worldwide crisis. But few – if not none – of them are as surprising as Jacob Cooper & Steven Bradshaw’s Sunrise.
Urban Eden * Lauren Doss
Urban Eden are succesfully building gardens from concrete *** Lauren Doss captures the kinesthetic energy from dancing with her voice.
Andrew Sherwell * Anthéne * Mind over MIDI
Three releases on the Shimmering Moods label: floating ambient choirs by Andrew Sherwell and Mind Over MIDI, and soft guitar-based dronescapes from Anthéne.
Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann * Ann
A fascinating mix of voice and electro-acoustics by Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann *** Ann’s Certain Colors is a collection of deliberate mistakes (but does not sound like that).
DreamScenes 2016 – 02
“Uut de Bron” / From the Well: fresh music for February, ambient sounds, choirs & otherwise…
VLNA – Turquoise Threads
Before you start listening, answer this: what associations do you have with a band name like VLNA?
Personally, I prepared for somewhat ‘unpersonal’ and possibly even ‘harsh’ sounds when I started listening.
But I was in for a surprise:“Turquoise Threads“ is an ‘impressionist vocal’ album – an album with spoken words fragments, humming, whistling, intertwining with ‘a thick veil of atmospheric noir from threads of adapted violins, guitar’ (and electronic treatments).
AGF, Simon Whetham
AGF – Source Voice
The LINE SEGMENT series is a series of releases on the LINE label “which will highlight some, perhaps, very non-LINE-like works. Works that stray from the norm…(The LINEnorm, that is, because most music on Line itself definitely strays from ‘the’ norm, too!).
AGF’s “Source Voice“ is the second release in this Line Segment series.
AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti, born in East-Germany but now living in Finland) has worked for more than a decade “releasing experiments connecting voice, deconstruction of language, perception, and sound processing”.
If her name is new to you, you may have some interesting research to do: she has been working together with artists like Vladislav Delay, Ellen Alien, Gudrun Gut and Eliane Radigue (amongst others),