Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with AMAS, Konstantin Kost
Greg Fenton reviews AMAS, Konstantin Kost – Odessa – AMAS Studio Four tastefully poignant pieces of music make up this most colourful EP. Red Glow opens the selection as TanYa’s spoken words reflect deeper emotions, especially given the Ukrainian aspect resolutely flowing throughout the music. Its tough undercurrent of punctuating stabs and moody pulses only…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with f5point6
Greg Fenton reviews f5point6 – A Random Sequence of Events – See Blue Audio A random sequence of events is something everyone will understand in one shape or another feeding into sub-consciousness, surfacing in real time. Maybe it’s simply a pertinent description of life’s journey for mere mortals, or otherwise. As always within music there…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Dan Ghenacia
Greg Fenton reviews Dan Ghenacia – Rouge Ou Noir – Stratasonic Rouge Ou Noir opens this funky disco referencing collection from the esteemed producer but it is to the next track, the tantalizingly excellent Chilly we turn. Shimmering arpeggios coupled with infectious vocal snippets simmer over a positively groovy repetition of beats creating irresistible rhythms…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sarah Davachi
Greg Fenton reviews Sarah Davachi – The Head as Form’d in the Crier’s Choir – Late Music Listening to Sarah Davachi’s album reveals something more at play than simple notes or words or some melodic device. The music reaches far deeper than that referencing texts and thoughts from centuries old there is a calm, evocative…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Trentemøller
Greg Fenton reviews Trentemøller – Dreamweaver – In My Room Listening to A Different Light casts your mind back to a time when music was crafted by a human hand, sketched out and created to shift your soul around, maybe even break it into pieces. The exceptional thing about Trentemøller is the way he makes…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Claudio Iacono
Greg Fenton reviews Claudio Iacono – Nishane – Pins and Needles Magazine Sixty is as much about things that sound the same as it is about seeking to highlight sounds that don’t fit the mold. Claudio Iacono’s darkly, tempting excellent production falls into the later proposition with smoldering rhythms and voices exposing chiming rocky guitars…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Juliet Mendoza & Ben Dragon
Greg Fenton reviews Juliet Mendoza & Ben Dragon – I Wish I Was Your Record – Rules Don’t Apply If you are endlessly tempted by the excitement of late nights and the fizz of early mornings then I Wish I Was Your Record was created just for you. First and foremost is the breathy voice…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Genius of Time
Greg Fenton reviews Genius Of Time – The Genius of Time Vocal series Vol.2 – Aniara Recordings Closer sounds like the smoldering essence of contemporary music for the soul it so obviously is. By combining a rush of sweet strings, bump and grind drums alongside a set of heavenly, harmonious voices that dream as they…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Giash
Greg Fenton reviews Giash – Végtelen Derengette – Archipel Musique Canada The breathless undulating funk that greets you upon igniting play on Raquettelig is beautiful and deeply satisfying, albeit hitting twists and turns in the gathering storm of its process. Much like the uncertain path weaved through life does. Watch out for the sudden ending.…