A few months ago, Leonardo Rosado, curator of Feedback Loop, asked me if I would be interested in joining a collaborative project called Brave New World. He had written two poems about his fascination for big cities and had asked Jessica Aliaga Lavrijsen to illustrate them with twenty of her photographs. This material was given [...]
Tetra, the fourth full length album by Los Angeles-based duo Mem1 (Laura and Mark Cetilia) is a very puzzling sonic proposition. Abrasive and abstract on the surface, this mixture of analogue modular and processed cello improvisations seems quite opaque and aimlessly noisy at first. But upon immersion in sound, whilst turning off the outside world, [...]
Using only guitars and saturation devices, all run back and forth between tube amps and a broken reel-to-reel, Los Angeles-based Ryan Connor aka Sublamp presents ten heavily textured tracks, conjuring up dark atmospheres, inspired in part from Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and its desolated industrial foggy landscapes. Assembled from cut-up drones and amplified guitar noises, In [...]
