Magazine Sixty
Music reviews and artist interviews
Magazine Sixty brings you reviews and interviews with some of the worlds leading independent artists. Discover excitng new electronic music, revisit seminal classics and hear from the people behind the sounds.
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Greg Fenton reviews OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance & mRn – Southern Lands – Audiobulb Records Combining instruments and a shared love of formative locations, the Southern Lands of the Argentinian landscapes by the Rio de la Plata, the three artists have conjured not only the magical nature of organic matter but also the turbulence
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Greg Fenton reviews Xan Tyler – You’re My Muse (Oddball Creatives Remix EP) – Ramrock Red Records It’s the cool, sultry voice, the rumbling bassline paired with a sequence of sharp cinematic string stabs and lines, and the straightforward, earthy tribal drums that make these remixes from Oddball Creatives such a pleasure. Three brilliantly enticing
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Greg Fenton reviews Laura Misch – Alchemy – Ambient Rework EP – One Little Independent Records Poignancy is never far away, and when you hear a piece of music that hits that spot, it can be a heartwarming revelation. With Laura Misch’s smouldering vocals and delicate keys, surrounded by a lush, swirling ambience, it’s easy
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Greg Fenton reviews Gareth Davis & Scanner – Songlines – Moving Furniture Records When one door closes, another door opens. It’s the feeling of freedom that welcomes you into this seemingly infinite exercise in notation that is so liberating, not bound to any specific predefined structure other than a communication of electrical impulses and seismic
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Greg Fenton reviews Alien D – Mediterranean Blue – Digital Artefacts Is music about finding yourself? Or losing yourself? This morning’s question has two different answers depending on your point of view -each valid. I like to be somewhere in between. Alien D’s selection of six tracks covers both concepts across a landscape, moving through
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Greg Fenton reviews Ruth Mascelli and Mary Hanson Scott – Esoteric Lounge Music Now – Disciples Fast is good. You’ll fall head over heels for this selection of inspired sounds, as if you were born for it. It blends jazz, eccentricity, song, and rhythmic or cosmic expansion. All these elements clash in a riot of
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Greg Fenton reviews Fractal Architect – Revelation EP – Manual Deep Apart from the boast of a great artist name, Fractal Architect delivers on the promise of sensual music that is as much about sensory perception as it is about the further reaches of movement. Show Me features an eloquent whispered vocal over continually evolving
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Greg Fenton reviews Franz Kirmann – Almadies – Bytes Experimenting with the concept of experimentation, Franz Kirmann’s stimulating infusion of sound into bliss demolishes the rule book of dull expectations. And guess what? There isn’t a drum roll anywhere. The drama lies in a curiosity of sonic movement created solely through authentic synthesisers and the
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Greg Fenton reviews Aris Kindt – Now Claims My Timid Heart – Quiet Time The background of this album centres on the highly regarded author Franz Kafka and certain romantic connections that inspire this collection’s haunting, figurative pieces of music. Ranging from the gentle intensity of the European-styled rhythms of Saichh Sequences to the mood-enhancing,
