Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Fabiano do Nascimento – Mundo Solo – Far Out Recordings
Fabiano do Nascimento sounds like a musician playing with his heart and soul. On the sleeve, inside and out. The airy enhancements enacted by machines only come as an extension to that original integrity. Adding grace and space to the language of sounds as they fill the room with brushstrokes of emotion, colouring rainbows amid…
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Before Brillo Box or Banana: Music With The Album Cover Art of Andy Warhol -El records
I’ve spent countless hours over the years thinking about Andy Warhol’s Art so much so that I’ve not given much thought to the music he liked. This collection of music pieces together tracks from albums which Warhol designed, or was involved with designing the covers for, when cover art was just that, Art. Before hitting…
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Kirk Barley – Marionette – Odda Recordings
Contrast always feels like the best of intentions. Especially given so many things are almost exactly the same. The same arrangements of landscapes of endless familiarity for you to lose your sad reflections in. Or the same sounds inevitably sounding all the same. However, Kirk Barley turns it all upside down in due course by…
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Stro Elliot – La Villa – Def Pressé Editions
It’s also the ability of music to lift and transform mood which is yet another fascinating, invaluable asset in the artistic canon. Maybe it should be prescribed. That’s the thing I love about this album’s opening shot, Mondays’ Generation as it sings and dances, celebrating, confirming. Then you listen to the piano adorning HHOT and…
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Various Artists – Reflections 07 – Reflections
If you’re are looking for direction but find it difficult to ask try the exquisite notes peppering To Where Dreams Are, created via the fall in love landscapes of surrounding sound by Nourey. The detail lies very much within the uplifting (in the genuine sense of the word) breath of vision as an expanse of…
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Tone of Arc – The Hard Road EP – IAMHER Records
A piece of music which captures your undivided attention in moments issomething to cherish in days of boring repetition, endlessly repeating what hasgone before. Also, and importantly, this is a song communicating thoughts toyou in words. Which likewise seems increasingly rare within electrical genres. Musically it is evocative, driven by drums and the spirit of…
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Kenneth James Gibson – Further Translations – Meadows Heavy Recorders
Beginning at the point that this music generates a more personal conversation between artist and listener might be a good place to start our dialogue. The wealth of music currently being generated, which talks more about atmosphere and mood is almost overwhelming but I guess it is in some way now a true reflection of…
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The Green Kingdom – Ether Hymns – Dronarivm
Is there really an infinite way of receiving these blends of sounds? Of listening to unfolding combinations of drones and sonic treatments pitched somewhere between ethereal, poignant and a reflective rippling across streams of consciousness. I don’t really know the answer to that but I still like experiencing the process. I guess from the album’s…
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Lisa Lerkenfeldt – Halos of Perception – Shelter Press
My first thought was maybe I should try listening to Halos of Perception on headphones to see if it felt any more intimate than it so obviously does. Like you were closer to the source. It didn’t. Because this collection of sonic sculptures couldn’t be anymore faithful to the importance of shared experience in today’s…