Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Piecing together pieces of the puzzle that form The Place We Know expresses the desire of finding yourself land at well intentioned endings. Creating a sense of drifting as layers of sounds manifest themselves in the shape of deeply refreshing sequences. Sitting somewhere in between loud/ quiet this captivating piece of music draws you into
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When music is stripped right back to bare simplicity it speaks to you in forms of language, memory and meaning. Pure and simple. Being devoid of words, relying on atmospheric instrmentation for communication, it does not follow that it automatically becomes a screen ‘soundtrack’ to accompany this or that. It’s just sublime music, or not.
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An excellent, spellbinding release from Russian Lineman, not least of all because of Valeska Rautenberg’s deeply enthralling vocal. Musically this has a funkier sway than expected by the artist, whose trips into mind-expanding sounds have always been fascinating. This time concentrating on darker brushes of bass and pounding, danceable drums as the voices drift around
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I have been listening to Laurie Anderson’s Norton lecture series filled with fascination and meaning, questioning the nature of sound and how it communicates with the everyday experiences of interaction and travel and surroundings. And about the peeling back on musical convention to reveal answers inherent without the use of melody to convey substance. And
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Everything feels loud on When The Stars Were Big like emotions depended on it. I love the soaring yet edgy defiance ingrained within the roaring keys, igniting heady atmospheres as its provocative, pounding drums proceed to fuel the fire. It’s cinematic in so far as it suggests pictures, perhaps longed after memories, or the warmth
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Maybe it’s time to reappraise the words Chill-Out. Ambient or ambience is a tangible thing but listening to the powerful low-end on All I Wanted there is a undeniably tough, animated feel to the track underpinned by a sensory overload of emotional trigger points in the form of expanding, echoing voices and heart erupting keys.
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Without even listening to the music the cover artwork paints bliss, loud in sunshine red. Listen to the music and you are enveloped by an array of gorgeous, sumptuous sounds on Marina Del Rey. Like a trip across desert highways on a Harley or, if you would prefer, sat next to the ocean drive holding
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Sounding like all the circuits connecting future and past have been plugged in together Wata Igarashi’s amazing music startles and stuns. You can sense the pulse of influences coursing here and there as certain modulations shimmer across the spectrum but these are fleeting moments in this extraordinary journey through forward motion. Numbers like Floating Against