Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Lumtz
Greg Fenton reviews Lumtz – Tesoros – We All Speak In Poems Peeking behind the curtain reveals that life is rarely ordinary. Chance encounters, fractured moments and unexpected turns all find their analogue in Lumtz’s reworking of electronic sound into unfamiliar yet beautifully realised forms. Across Tesoros, the music flows like a river, moving between…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Paul Haslinger and Christian Wittman
Greg Fenton reviews Paul Haslinger and Christian Wittman – Mallarmé – noion Music Four expansive pieces of music inspired by Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard are brought together in this artistic collaboration, which feels revelatory and invites the listener into a bold, deeply immersive musical world. The enduring power of the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Silver Man
Greg Fenton reviews Silver Man – Paint Me in Gold – 3 Bar Fire Records Music of quality and distinction lies at the heart of David Silverman’s latest production. The mysterious, poetically charged voice of Cass anchors a compelling piece, gliding over commanding drums and conveying fractured emotions that evoke longing and unease. Chopped-up keys…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with FeelGood
Greg Fenton reviews FeelGood – Dirty Fly – DIRTYBIRD The week may have ended, but the music hasn’t stopped. Dirtybird, and more specifically FeelGood, serve up this notably fiery groove in a world that sometimes lacks musical excitement, primed with an explosive edge that turns your head. Dirty Fly doesn’t quite sound like anything else,…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sasha
Greg Fenton reviews Sasha – Hollow Sun – Last Night On Earth Sounding like every expectation of nights out across the decades, this latest production from Sasha doesn’t so much reignite the past as redefine it. You can’t help but feel the pride of history running through Hollow Sun25, conveyed through its swirling pads, flashes…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with The Silent Harvest Volume Two
Greg Fenton reviews The Silent Harvest Volume Two – Folk Police Recordings We can safely say that summer has arrived, bringing with it days of lazy haze and dreams of air conditioning. Thankfully, there is something innately and deeply satisfying about this collection of music inspired by the late-sixties album by Ewan MacColl and Peggy…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Instruments Of Rapture
Greg Fenton reviews Instruments Of Rapture – Certain Realities – Instruments Of Rapture There’s always a twist in the tale, new ways to tell the same story if only you take the time to look. I get that feeling from Make It Right, which opens this EP, channelling a sense of history through a contemporary…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Galcher Lustwerk
Greg Fenton reviews Galcher Lustwerk – Vestibule Remixes EP – Stratasonic Following the release of the Vestibule EP earlier this year comes a tantalising collection of remixes, each exploring its own distinct mood and rhythmic identity. Ricardo Villalobos opens proceedings with two exceptional reworkings of the title track, with the more forceful VOLPAT Cut 2…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Scanner
Greg Fenton reviews Scanner – The Prophet The second production from Scanner this week is simply because this effortless, thoughtful piece of music delights the circuits and excites the senses. Based on G-force’s recreation of the 1978 Prophet 5 synthesiser, it may have started life as a playful idea and is now a fully realised…