Composer
Caught this one a little late, but so pleased to hear “Grass in the Moonlight” on the phenomenal Sequences podcast, originally aired on Modul303. Catch the recap on Soundcloud.
And last week on Mad Wasp Radio, the brilliant It Came From Enclosure Three included “Grass in the Moonlight” as well as Mortality Tables labelmate boycalledcrow.
Much appreciation!
Many (belated) thanks to Hypnagogue for including “Calton Hill” on last month’s episode. Catch it on the Hypnagogue site and subscribe to catch future episodes of this wonderful show.
Many thanks to the SciFi-Blog & Podcast “Fantastische Wissenschaftlichkeit” for playing “What Penumbras” from Strategic Tape Reserve’s brilliant ShopLand World cassette! Catch the tracklist and archived audio on their website.
Many thanks to longtime supporter DJ SpaceTerrapin for including “Metro Musix” off the Retrophonica comp on Mad Wasp Radio’s It Came From Enclosure Three last weekend. Catch the recap on Mixcloud or below.
Loads of new podcasts with Orca, Attack’s! C.M.S.O. on the deck this past couple of weeks:
And there’s an extremely perceptive track-by-track review of the album up on listencorp (we expect nothing less!). My favorite part:
Reaching an ecclesiastical euphoria of harmonies and echoes, the voice doles out thank you’s from the creators of the course. After which things descend into instrumental chaos with glissando notes filling the soundscape, ending the course on an emphatic and almost ornate note tied off with a twinkling swish of pixellated bells at the very end.
Finally, Farewell, Doomed Planet! is also back on the WTUL charts this week. By my count, that’s now 21 weeks? Amazing.
Woke up this morning to quite a few happy notifications. First, Monolith Cocktail has a great write-up of C.M.S.O. This lovely excerpt should get you to want to read the whole thing:
A writer of repute on the failures of tech, communication and self-preservation, Rodriguez (who also files his musical experiments under Alison’s Disapproval) lends a constantly filtered and affected spoken word narration across all six tracks as Kelly swans, touches the ethereal with her diaphanous woos, calls, arias (a merger of Laurie Anderson, cosmic opera and Jane Weaver). Often transmogrified by robotic effects and the slowing and speeding up of that instructive monologue, Rodriguez’s message is constantly warped, broken up: sometimes on the verge of some Max Headroom glitch stutter, or the slurred falling apart speech of HAL.
*Achievement unlocked: Max Headroom comparison!
We also seem to have successfully stumped Vital Weekly, who write of the album:
The music is mostly a computer treated voice/vocoder style, and along with some electronics playing some weird tune. The six pieces last altogether less than 19 minutes, which is perhaps the best thing for such a little curiosity. Great for confusion and confused to know what to say.
Vital Weekly also put out a podcast highlighting the music they’ve reviewed; be sure to check it out.
Finally, I haven’t been able to find a recording, but thank you to Kat O’Rly for playing “Literature Review” on WLUW’s Destination Unknown last night.
Auricular felicity abounds in the newest episode of Anticipating Nowhere. Thanks Simon for including some Orca, Attack! alongside such splendid sonorousness.
Thank you to Mike for this amazing review of C.M.S.O. on Avant Music News. My favorite part:
The coupling of these topics with abstract modern classical and electronics is unique as far as I can tell. And this degree of quirky novelty is certainly in line with Kelly’s previous release. After a few listens, I am not sure what I learned but I do feel a little smarter.
And thank you as well to the legends at Independent Music Podcast for including “Abstract” on this week’s episode, which as always has resulted an influx of new additions to my Bandcamp wishlist.
Thank you Ambient Atomic Orbitals for remixing/mashing/weaving a handful of tracks from the upcoming EP C.M.S.O. on their newest episode (there’s some bonus Farewell, Doomed Planet! on there too). It’s a great sneak peek of the album and also a totally different way of listening to it, check it out!
