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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As much as this new album from Chloé and Ben Shemie is about noise it’s also about depth of meaning, and yearning. Voices intone while drums and bass drive, as keys and a collection of haunting sounds permeate the diverse stereo field of vision on offer here. Put it this way there is never a
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Two tracks, two version of each, is as uncomplicated as it sounds. Musically, Particule dives headlong into deep, emotional waters swimming with the tide of turbulent atmospheres, laden with depth charges releasing mystery and the expanse of soul. Try the excellent Particule 2 with its inquisitive whispers penetrating rich layers of probing sound. Plus the
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Much like a jigsaw each piece of this carefully crafted arrangement plays its own distinct part adding maximum intensity. The emotive keys that feature prominently are drenched in heavy soul, while the accompanying drums feel tough yet thoughtful in execution on Black Bird, capturing free flight as strings soar. Next is, Tykhe complimenting via rugged
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I like excellent music. Music that commands your attention while colouring the moments of its duration, leaving a trace of itself behind, altering consciousness and potential for possibility. Even Drones fuel the excitement via a cascade of sights and sounds each recalling the point of why you engaged with the magic of sound in the
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Number 4 begins via a funky shuffle forwards as Night Shop Gold surrenders to an after dark scenario that sees rhythms get disconnected, voices hazy amid a general feeling of unpredictability. Camiel Hermans aka Camiflage’s journey continues next with the commanding Doomstrolling laying down heavy, four-four signatures alongside a series of twisted sounds getting progressively
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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