Right, you’re still getting your head around the new self-titled double LP from Motion Sickness of Time Travel on Spectrum Spools (due on CD imminently). And you’ve maybe ordered your copy of the new MSOTT tape Traces from Aussie start-up A Guide to Saints (already sold out at the source) Well, don’t look now but Rachel Evans has got yet another tape flying your way: Chinaberry is part of a rich new five-tape batch from Hooker Vision, the intrepid imprint Rachel runs with husband Grant Evans—whose own eagerly anticipated Tactical Gamelan is also in the new batch.
I had a terrific time speaking recently with former Yellow Swans noisemaker Pete Swanson about his techniques, his work ethic, his habit of issuing his work on cassette tapes, and what he’s up to now that he’s based in New York City.
Swanson’s playing 285 Kent Ave in Williamsburg this Friday night, topping an insanely good bill with Keith Fullerton Whitman, Forma and SSPS. And if you haven’t heard his 2011 LP Man with Potential yet, what are you waiting for?
“Night of Sense” by Attenuated, newly released on Space Slave Editions and available here if you act fast.
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Digital Natives - Blow Your Brain Out [Space Slave Editions; 2012]
Jeffry Astin begins to separate himself from his Xiphiidae identity with his recent output as Digital Natives. After releasing Let Three Be Light on his own Housecraft with the promise of “many alignments,” Blow Your Brain Out adjusts the lumbar with the force of a burly Swedish masseuse. “Dead All Ready” has a crooked spine, jutting flashy 70s lounge at its base, before contouring into a 80s slow jam. “Soap for Two” walks with a pimp’s gait; cocksure and proud, before slipping on the variety show Tropicalia of “Micro Gale Talodactye.” Despite relying on repeated loops, Blow Your Brain Out is so rich with inspiration, it avoids a Sisyphean fate. Astin may riff on the same theme, but the tape never runs out of variations.
Nice write up of the third project by Jeffry Astin as Digital Natives, following previous releases on Astin’s Housecraft label and Joshua Tippery’s Permanent Nostalgia imprint. (But I do hope this doesn’t mean that Astin is finished with his Xiphiidae guise.)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2r01j6YKM1qdpvg0o1_500.jpg)
Digital Natives - Blow Your Brain Out [Space Slave Editions; 2012]
Jeffry Astin begins to separate himself from his Xiphiidae identity with his recent output as Digital Natives. After releasing Let Three Be Light on his own Housecraft with the promise of “many alignments,” Blow Your Brain Out adjusts the lumbar with the force of a burly Swedish masseuse. “Dead All Ready” has a crooked spine, jutting flashy 70s lounge at its base, before contouring into a 80s slow jam. “Soap for Two” walks with a pimp’s gait; cocksure and proud, before slipping on the variety show Tropicalia of “Micro Gale Talodactye.” Despite relying on repeated loops, Blow Your Brain Out is so rich with inspiration, it avoids a Sisyphean fate. Astin may riff on the same theme, but the tape never runs out of variations.
Nice write up of the third project by Jeffry Astin as Digital Natives, following previous releases on Astin’s Housecraft label and Joshua Tippery’s Permanent Nostalgia imprint. (But I do hope this doesn’t mean that Astin is finished with his Xiphiidae guise.)
New audible fascinations from Inez Lightfoot, alias multimedia artist Jackie McDowell. The thoughtfully packaged cassette is limited to an edition of 25; the Bandcamp download includes a bonus track. Extra points for tongue-in-cheek titles, like “There’ll Be No Yellow Sno-Cones in Heaven” and “Poppy Sogood and The Warp & Weft Band.”
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QE is the duo music project of Grant & Rachel Evans, since February 2009.
All aboard… Quiet Evenings, the bliss-inducing Georgia duo of Rachel and Grant Evans, has a new Tumblr.
Digitalis has just released its final batch of limited-edition cassettes… but, unlike some other significant imprints who’ve stepped out of the business altogether, Brad Rose &co. aren’t going away. New tapes will still appear, but Digitalis is shifting more of its attention and resources elsewhere. The final clutch of tapes is all over the map, from bedroom electronica to noise and free-rock skronk; I just jumped on the Brian Lavelle tape, a sample of which you can stream above, with a quickness.
You can read more about what’s included in the farewell batch on the blog of e-tail hero Discriminate Music, where everything (apart from one copy of the Lavelle tape) is in stock as I write this.
A crucial new April batch from German label SicSic Tapes includes fresh sounds from three favorites — Grasshopper, Voder Deth Squad and Venn Rain — and the little sample of Wolf Fluorescence makes me eager to hear more. (Is that a Mellotron on side two?)
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Talk West - “Sorrow Floats”
Photo via Richard Prince
Freights & Fields, No Kings‘ new (and quite ace) cassette from Talk West (The Doldrums’ Dylan Aycock), flaunts one of the most fitting and direct titles of any release since last year’s Badlands. The tape, like almost all of Aycock’s pedal steel-inflected tunes, is thick with visions of the great Midwestern sprawl—roads spilling out through farmland, rusting train cars, and low-hanging skies. Tracks like the enveloping “Sorrow Floats” harness this ambience beautifully, sounding like The Caretaker-meets-Basinksi in an empty cornfield. Fields is sold out on NK (I’m always late to the party), but that shouldn’t stop you from grabbing it on bandcamp—go get it.
mp3 // Talk West - Sorrow Floats
check out derek rogers’ institutio amet at microphones in the trees. there is a link included in the post for a full download of the 64 min, sold out cassette.
(No need to hesitate when the label that released the tape is urging you to go grab it, eh?)
