Thanks to Zaph for including “Departure” off Farewell, Doomed Planet! on In Memory of John Peel this weekend (and after the very, very excellent song “Greta Thunberg sings Swedish Death Metal” by John Mollusk; the video is great too). Listen to the show on the website, or below!
Tag: Music
Departure 2019 in Cassette Gods
Beautiful review of the Departure 2019 tape on Cassette Gods this weekend:
“Kelly brings her considerable chops as a singer, a songwriter, and a mischievous experimental imp to the table, delighting everybody in earshot with magnificent synthesizers and baroque arrangements, recalling Vangelis and Tangerine Dream and Enya and Björk, but also the sweeping buzz and interjected interruption of our greatest generation of outsider talent.”
Full review over on the site. Thank you, Ryan!
More What Penumbras/ShopLand World reviews
Our supermarkets may be small, but our musical ambition knows no bounds! The Strategic Tape Reserve compilation ShopLand World: Music for a Discovery Park of Miniature Supermarkets has continued receiving favorable press, including some alarmingly non-sarcastic banter on the Tabs Out Cassette Podcast. “What Penumbras,” my contribution, also received some praise in Pat Padua’s Spectrum Culture 3.2 star review of the album:
“This isn’t a trip to the dazzling cornucopia of the modern grocery store, but a descent into a commercial hellscape, with a quick succession of shimmering blips suggesting a nightmarish aural vision of the checkout aisle.”
Padua also calls the album a “a dense and frequently unsettling anthology.” Read the full review on the site!
Want more? Here are a couple more reviews of the compilation:
Lost In A Sea of Sound
Cassette Gods
Voyeur on YIKIS
Yeah I Know It Sucks has outdone themselves again by reviewing the entire I Heart Noise Spring Compilation, with these kind words to say about my contribution “Voyeur:”
“Always impressive wherever the work of this artist pops up, Voyeur doesn’t go under the reader unnoticed as well. A full on deranged feeling of music that is dense and all over the colorful audio spectrum. Beautifully designed, moving, innovating and scarily surreal like a short story of uncomfortable creepiness in which Elizabeth goes into the mind of a voyeur and channels the findings through excellent music.”
Read the entire review over at Yeah I Know It Sucks!
Unusual Capsule on YIKIS
Perpetually supportive Yeah I Know It Sucks has reviewed the ENTIRE Prosthion Recording This Machine Confuses Fascists: An ACLU Benefit Compilation, with some blushingly laudatory words for my contribution, “Unusual Capsule:”
“freaking hell, she hitting brilliance again over here, with a full on stereo mindf*ck, wicked beat weirdness, a work of amazeballs quality that feels like it is on a next level while still having that trademark of humanity to it; don’t want to be an ass licking licker but this is absolutely brilliant.”
Thank you as always to YIKIS for their unending support and kindness, and don’t forget to check out the full album: 36 tracks, $5, all for a good cause.
Twilight Moving Mediation on Electronic Fusion
Brainvoyager has a wonderful new episode of Electronic Fusion up on Mixcloud with music by women, including my “Twilight Moving Meditation.” Thanks Jos!
New music at The Dark Outside, June 20-21
If you’re in the London area June 20-21, please head out to Waltham Forrest with a radio tuned to 87.7FM and enjoy 24 hours of never-before-heard music, field recordings, poetry and more, including a brand new unheard track from me. More details on their website.
Sci Fi Drive on QT Station
QT Station, an online music series featuring only women & non binary artists, included the “dark” and “super dystopian “Sci Fi Drive” on yesterday’s episode. Check it out and enjoy tracks from a wide variety of excellent electronic musicians, ranging from dream pop to industrial to EDM to dark jazz and much more!
Concert Music on Yeah I Know It Sucks
The always delightful Yeah I Know It Sucks has a very flattering review up of Concert music for orchestra, chorus, and chamber musicians, 2005​-​2010, an artificial album made up of live recordings of some of my pieces over the years. An excerpt:
I could imagine wordless theatre shows taking the music up and build entire complimenting performances around them. I bet the theatres would flourish and turn into newly generated fan machines. Normal person goes in – hears an amazing show – gets hooked on the excitement – comes out as a super fan of this very fine composer. They all will be my new friends, and the excitement as a person could also team up with their excitements & we all live happily in a world dominated by the inspiring concert music. Animation series and movies will be made with them as their core of inspiration, dance moves will be choreographed and everywhere you go the sounds will come out to greet you lovingly.
I don’t think it gets any more flattering than that 🙂 Read the full review here, and be sure to check out the whole site–YIKIS routinely spotlights some of the most interesting and adventurous indie music out there!
Cake on Gated Canal Community
Thanks Rob (The Geography Trip) and Justin (Front & Follow) for playing “Cake” (from the Wormhole World sampler A Picture of Good Health) on Reform Radio’s Gated Canal Community! Listen to the full show on Mixcloud.
Elizabeth Joan Kelly 