Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Ensemble Ex Materia – EP – Arpaviva Recordings
The four souls making up Ensemble Ex Materia demonstrate the art of the possible to the ninth degree. Taking sounds and manipulating their presence in real-time lends the music the persception of being in the moment as atmosphere’s unfold, conjuring up the danger of the unknown in the process. Or to put that another way,…
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Osmo Lindeman – Electronic Works – Sähkö Recordings
There is quite often more to the world than first meets the eye. It seems to happen after a gentle scratch under the surface revealing names not readily caught in the net. Quite why they slip through isn’t always apparent, or fair to them and their memory. But here we are in 2023 listening to…
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Xqui – melting ice with ice – Wormhole World
After gazing at the immersive cover art for what seemed like an age I finally pressed start. To which I was greeted by caustic, mind-bending rays of synthesizer landing at the point where you can instantly see the ice melting scenario unfold. Mercifully however, Cherry Red Neon Blues soothes the tension a touch next as…
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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…