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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If music means anything it means something. I wonder what Pete Seeger or for that matter Phil Orchs would have made of this version of Folk storytelling. While the acoustic strains from the genre are woven throughout moments inhabiting this album they are not strictly tied down by them, setting the sounds and imagination free.
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“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.” This quote from Plato echoes across thousands of years
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Exploring, Fleksebleco is like passing through a series of rooms each containing a new way of absorbing sounds as if they had been created uniquely in that very instant. The music proceeds to evolve very much on its own terms as rhythms unfold peppered by a future of ideas plugging into the electrical mainframe of
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Dino Lenny’s most recent releases have been statements of intent. I’ve Learned That, talks that same language with a refreshingly, direct breath. On this occasion fuelling the words are rugged bass and resilient, jazzy reflections landing in the shape of emotive piano chords. Soulfully loaded, filled with timely lessons for life enhanced by the innate
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A dreamy, drifting across forever skies quality inhabits Francesca Guccione’s wonderful musical creations like they were made for each other. A heavenly journey touched by a sensitive, introspective enquiry playing out towards a cosmic tomorrow. Searching arpeggios populate the narration forming the beginning Parallel Echoes contrasted next by the sheer intensity of Ganymede as it
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Welcome to Magazine Sixty, Even Drones. Your debut album Ethics for Freund Der Familie is an explosive ride through the sights and sounds of everything you love about music exploring influences from across the spectrum. How important is it for you as artists to carve out your own individual path while not sounding like everyone
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This is a sublime album expanding the beauty of being with all of its inherent light and shade. Words speak in-between the tense, atmospheric piano and guitars as they gently, poignantly strum across the horizon of extensive imaginations by quoting past and present experiences. The meaning is found in the use of effects that reverberate
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Close your eyes and see what happens. There is a lost and found quality at wort here given the fractured composition of the notes, treated, resembling another time and place as they glide around your imagination. Suggests to me the movie Kubrick didn’t get to make, one which would have been stunning. Listen to the
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I love this. It combines almost all of my favourite influences into one syllable. Setting the scene with curiosity as cinema brushes against the haunt of ambience intertwined by reflections of Jazz and Blues, chord structure and lose affiliations breathing as one. Very nice bass playing too as shuffling rhythms, keys and vibes drift across