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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Everything feels loud on When The Stars Were Big like emotions depended on it. I love the soaring yet edgy defiance ingrained within the roaring keys, igniting heady atmospheres as its provocative, pounding drums proceed to fuel the fire. It’s cinematic in so far as it suggests pictures, perhaps longed after memories, or the warmth
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Maybe it’s time to reappraise the words Chill-Out. Ambient or ambience is a tangible thing but listening to the powerful low-end on All I Wanted there is a undeniably tough, animated feel to the track underpinned by a sensory overload of emotional trigger points in the form of expanding, echoing voices and heart erupting keys.
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Without even listening to the music the cover artwork paints bliss, loud in sunshine red. Listen to the music and you are enveloped by an array of gorgeous, sumptuous sounds on Marina Del Rey. Like a trip across desert highways on a Harley or, if you would prefer, sat next to the ocean drive holding
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Sounding like all the circuits connecting future and past have been plugged in together Wata Igarashi’s amazing music startles and stuns. You can sense the pulse of influences coursing here and there as certain modulations shimmer across the spectrum but these are fleeting moments in this extraordinary journey through forward motion. Numbers like Floating Against
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We know how Marvin Gaye ended up, how his life was cut short after decades of difficulty. We also know he created some of the most cherished moments of the last century, and I’m not talking about the cringe worthy Sexual Healing. Perhaps it’s a more fitting epitaph that two of his more vulnerable songs
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Heartstrings are there to be played, otherwise what’s the point of our lifetime’s succession of heartache and yearning. Beginning this series of collaborative releases is this rather wonderful song capturing emotion and sentiment to a T. Rebekah K’s delicate vocal weaves around the contrasting smouldering low-end theory like a dream, or a self-defining explanation of
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I love the thought-provoking, memory kindling, maybe positive futures essence contained within Meet Her At The Jazzkantine like you’re hearing something sublime for the first time. While it doesn’t follow the rules of clique it does engage the soul in more profound ways than that formula, at a guess it’s more about art as music
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James Ellis Ford has crafted together disparate elements fusing them in such a way that a sense of wonder (and curiosity) ensues. Not so much a homage to the mind-bending world of Fripp, Eno and perhaps Soft Machine and King Crimson, let’s say more like a reworking of those frequencies channelled through the artists own