Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke released another composition together, and this one revolves around Karma. As Hawk’s flute rings with a loving aura and Schoepke’s drums march with determination, we are ensnared by bright sonic colors. There’s a sense of courage and resolution with this piece, like we’re watching a montage of truths unfold. Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke have
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Electronic artist Tarek Sabbar released a new EP. It’s three tracks that each occupy their own niche of style; “Strata” opens things with waves of ambient bliss, “Process” gets the blood flowing with a danceable tempo and industrial textures, and “Subcutaneous” is a techno cut that feels mysterious with metallic resonance. Tarek Sabbar delivers a stunningly creative and versatile EP
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Prolific electronic act Doormouse released a new EP recently. Coming off from his previous EP “Breakcore”, these compositions favor a more relaxed chillout approach. Fuzzy, distorted drum breaks and blasted 808s accompany samples from 90s news reports describing raves. The final track “You Are Here Again” is the previous four tracks in one mix. Doormouse strips things down while keeping
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Experimental pop act It’s Dangerous to Go Alone have their debut single and video out. The song has a dreamy, psychedelic feel and describes a vision of personifying the titular toy. Featuring a miniature world where people are all slinkies, the visual contains cardboard cars, cotton ball trees and dollhouse props in an adorably surreal production. We look forward to
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Experimental electronic act Wavefiler teamed up with Vermont-based artist Go Outside for a collaborative album. Meeting one another via Instagram, the two wrote each track one at a time in order to conjure maximum cohesion, so the album flows like a river. With wandering ambient soundscapes and breezy textures, “Send / Return” is a pleasant exercise of two artists building
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Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke continue their prolonged collaboration with a piece about leaving parts of you behind. As such, there’s a profound sense of sadness with Hawk’s flutes, balanced by marked determination from Schoepke’s rhythm. Living into one’s dreams requires departure and forfeiture, which can certainly evoke melancholy akin to Hawk and Schoepke’s duality here. “Sacrifice” is a contemplation
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E.B. Albeit details the bitter cold with a warm dub.
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Experimental-improv artist Eli Smith released a new composition recently. Spanning over a half hour long, this piece utilizes no digital elements and instead favors entirely acoustic instruments and objects. Among the sonic tools Smith uses here are singing bowls, a violin bow, a thunder tube, a cymbal with water poured on it, chimes and bells. As shrill tones beam in
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The latest from Cody Steinmann is an eight-minute journey of audio storytelling.
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PAY DIRT is new side project of conceptual/performance artist Kleaner which finds them exploring drone and noise territories. “MOB” is their debut release, being a seven-minute composition of rumbling distortions and clangorous crashing sounds. It’s got an ominous atmosphere like we’re anticipating something about to happen in a psychological horror movie. We hope to hear more from PAY DIRT and
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