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Album Review: Être Ensemble – CLOSE / SPACE: more montage music and cinematic vision from the inspired Joni Void network.
Experimental musician and sound artist Joni Void’s astounding tapestry of musical connectivity continues. The three albums released via Constellation, ‘Selfless’, ‘Mise En Abyme’ and this year’s ‘Everyday is the Song’, may be the most visible markers of the emergence of Jean Néant (he/them) as sonic collagist Joni Void but there’s an eco-system of other projects …
Premiere: Stream Matt Costa’s soaring ‘Katabatic Flight’ score to coincide with film’s release today
Matt Costa likes to keep busy. He’s working on a new record at the moment, the proper follow-up to 2020’s Yellow Coat, which is expected to surface before the end of the year, but it’s not the only thing he’s releasing in 2023. He doesn’t operate like that, so today he’s putting out a film …
Track/Video : Ambient keyboardist Nico Georis announces his contemplative ‘Cloud Suites’ album with the glistening ‘Ice Crystals’.
“It’s nature’s way of telling you in a song” said Randy California and artists like Nico Georis create through that connection. A gifted classical pianist who stepped beyond such disciplined restrictions to live along a more experimental causeway, Georis has in the past been energised by different organics, from plant life to more barren terrains. …
Album Review: Henry Rollins Curates A “Best Of” Collection Of The Californian Hardcore Scene 1978-1983
Futurismo Records asked ex-Black Flag singer, Henry Rollins to select his favourite tracks from the Californian hardcore scene for the 5 year period between 1978 and 1983, for many the halcyon days of the genre. Spread over 4 sides of limited edition coloured vinyl, the 25 tracks Rollins has chosen are all stone cold classics …
PREMIERE: Grant Summerland unveils new EP ‘Unnatural History’
Last month, we premiered the lead track from Californian Grant Summerland (solo artist and leader of the live iteration Grant and the Summerlands), his first proper appearance in a few years after being sidelined by the pandemic – his debut album Bigfoot Museum was released in mid-March 2020 and immediately hit the skids. Not to …
PREMIERE: Karaboudjan previews new EP with the expansive ‘Scatter’
The Southern California-based Billy Kim impressed us when he released his debut EP as Karaboudjan last year, with IMAGO putting him on the map as a solo artist. Kim is also part of Tycho‘s live band, where he cut his teeth before embarking on a career of his own, and it’s taking him places. His …
PREMIERE: Caroline Kingsbury gives ‘Heaven’s Just A Flight’ the remix treatment
In April of last year, Los Angeles-based Caroline Kingsbury released her great debut album Heaven’s Just A Flight (which, by the way, received a belated vinyl pressing in the back half of 2021), and in keeping with the record telling her story of coming out as queer in a religious family, she’s revisited the source …
PREMIERE: Andy Frasco & the U.N. share loved-up new song ‘Grow Old’
As Paul McCartney once sang, some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. California native Andy Frasco is not that kind of person. At least, he isn’t anymore. Two years of collective pandemic-induced trauma changes people, and reconnecting with oneself takes time. The title of his new album calls to mind the …
NEWS: Boy Scouts announces new album ‘Wayfinder’ with tragicomic lead single ‘That’s Life Honey’
In what is very welcome news for a Tuesday afternoon – or indeed, any other part of your week – the Oakland, CA-based Taylor Vick is back at it. Following the release of Free Company in 2019, she released a standalone single called ‘Wish’ in March of last year, with a high-profile SXSW slot lined …
PREMIERE: Karaboudjan shares the powerful ‘Falling Forwards’, preps debut EP for September
He’s been part of a number of bands including the live setup for Tycho, but Billy Kim has only recently started to embark on a musical venture of his own. Back in March, the artist also known as Karaboudjan (yes, that is a The Adventures of Tintin reference) released his debut single ‘Seems Like’, and …