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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Who doesn’t love the drama of crime? Then again you doesn’t love Jazz. This late 50’s sizzling combo is inescapably awe-inspiring featuring a feast of Film Noir scores across the roulette of excellence taking you into worlds unknown. This is real close your eyes and you are there stuff. Maybe, just maybe, they don’t make
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Each lighthouse has its own story to tell, one which encompasses the isolated air of familiarity ingrained within these peculiar, lifesaving buildings. Real Gone Kid’s richly intense production serves that suggestion well providing an uneasy interplay of tension between the drums, bass and undulating stabs that seemingly combining in endless numbers. Darkly emotive and compelling
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Art for me is sometimes about what happens next. Not so much what you see in a given moment captured but what story unfolds in the next frame. The unseen, the unknown. Whether that is getting lost inside a conceived picture or photograph or being subsumed by pieces of music it remains about the excitement
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Another brilliant release this time sees Jus Nowhere’s back 2 Beirut edit of Don Juan ignite the touch paper of riotous imagination, tempting future sounds alongside incendiary rhythms out of the ether and into the present. From the word go its percussion fuelled frenzy grabs your attention amid a swirl of vocal touches, tough bass
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Something about listening to this latest collection from the collaborative minds of Christine Ott and Mathieu Gabry pitches the decay of autumn against imagined fragments of regeneration forthcoming this spring. There’s an inherently organic feel to it all care the instrumentation alongside an otherworldly fuse of electronics adding an edge of uncertainty. Much like the
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Wolfgang Voigt’s wonderfully curated selections have been spanning an amazing twenty plus years to date, still remaining fresh and invigorating considering the world of music outside may not always seem so. Take the opening Coiling by Blank Gloss which channels that epic essence of the Cocteau Twins into a new reality or Yui Onodera’s blissfully
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Chasing your own tail can be a distinctive, timely occupation that many of us will be familiar with. The by-product of some ancient tradition or due to more contemporary stresses and strains, either way if it’s good enough for dogs then why not humans. This latest number in the sequence sees Afterlife exercises the ghost
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Celebrating the first two single releases by Freeez is this new repackaging of events from Far Out Recordings. Keep In Touch from 1980 remains a truly wonderfully uplifting piece of music helping to define what was been called Brit-Funk from the era – an essentially UK blend of Jazz and Funk featuring banks like Light
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Sometimes descriptions can freeze the imagination locking you into cliques about response. Sometimes music means much more than just words when the music does not have words. Sometimes music doesn’t merit any at all. There are all sorts of words to describe Simon McCorry’s search for meaning through sound graphically tying together the emotional expanse