Category: Magazine Sixty reviews
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Sean Harvey
Greg Fenton reviews Sean Harvey – Fearless EP – District Rec Capturing moods and atmosphere, Sean Harvey’s shimmering, shuffling, fizzy rhythm offers all that’s needed to do so. Fearless, rolls tribal drums over a cascade of punctuation and synthesised motifs, still leaving room for breathy suggestion. The Constant Drum continues the mystery centred on drums…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Tripmastaz
Greg Fenton reviews Tripmastaz – Tortured Soul – Adam’s Bite Hot wiring funk to technological mastery is, as ever, Tripmastaz’s specific trademark, exercising the excitement of sounds just as he does the endless possibilities of electronic discourse. GFK’s Dream begins exploring a diverse range of styles, incorporating them all under one groove to keep the…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Yard One
Greg Fenton reviews Yard One – Neuroglow EP – Tact Recordings Listening to this latest collection of musical pieces from Yard One, you realise the amount of creative depth and emotional release stitched into each sound and the way those conversations then congregate around stimulating senses, much like a journey into a smouldering mystery. It’s…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with João Paulo Esteves da Silva and Samuel Rohrer
Greg Fenton reviews João Paulo Esteves da Silva and Samuel Rohrer – Fluttering Wings – Arjunamusic Records As deep as it is personal, the communication between artist and listener is never more intensely rich than demonstrated by this story of lone piano and its various connecting parts. These are, in this instance, fizzy flashes of…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Afterlife
Greg Fenton reviews Afterlife – Mono No Aware Wading through endless amounts of music can weigh you down as much as finding an unexpected, rarefied gem can reignite the heart of a long-lost friend. Mono No Aware is a Japanese practice – but you already knew that – engaging in awareness, and either because of…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Parallelle & Nicolas Masseyeff
Greg Fenton reviews Parallelle & Nicolas Masseyeff – Shake It Out – Crosstown Rebels This record is exciting, not least because the drums, punctuating synth hits, low-slung bass, and the way the ever-evolving keys evolve stinging into something altogether blistering and uplifting, teasing out the senses with excitement and humanity. Then there are the deep…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Valya Kan
Greg Fenton reviews Valya Kan – pinkpradabagguy420 – Wild Nation Beauty in simplicity, as sounds involve strategic placement within a blur of late-night colour and emphasis. Valya Kan’s music has reached a point where atmosphere fuses with a flair of musicality, painting vivid mental images which I, for one, like. There’s a movement propelled by…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with D:Ream
Greg Fenton reviews D:Ream – Do It Anyway (Al Mackenzie Dubbin’ The House Mixes) – NewState Music We are all so bombarded by everything that it’s easy sometimes to forget everything. The history of D:Ream is a surprisingly long one, given the increasingly fleeting moments passing for attention span, but tuning sharply into focus are…
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Magazine Sixty Music Review with Skander Jaïbi
Greg Fenton reviews Skander Jaïbi – Who has the right to closure? – Uncloud Editions Opening the page, Who has the right to closure? forms the beginning of a newly founded label with tales of inward journeys bound to the turbulence of life, expressing intensity in all its rich, searing form. Realised and captured by…